Sorin has announced the marketing approval from China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and full commercial launch in China of the Reply and Esprit families of pacemakers. Both families include easy-to-use functions and patient safety features, with Reply, at 8ccs, maintaining its position as the world’s smallest dual-chamber pacemaker.
The Reply and Esprit families have several common attributes: some of the industry’s smallest devices, uncompromised longevity, and Smartcheck, a tool designed to simplify device checks by automating follow up tests at the click of a button. In addition, each device presents its own unique features:
- The Reply pacemakers, the smallest dual-chamber pacemakers on the market, offer the exclusive pacing mode, SafeR, which constantly monitors and promotes the patient’s natural cardiac activity. SafeR is the world’s first pacing mode to maintain over 99% intrinsic conduction.Delivering unnecessary pacing to the right ventricle has been shown to significantly increase the risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation, two conditions that can prove fatal and place a heavy cost burden on healthcare systems. Recently-published results have shown that SafeR nearly eliminates unnecessary ventricular pacing and adds two-year device longevity.
- The Esprit pacemakers include numerous algorithms designed for patient safety: continuous lead impedance measurements to monitor the lead integrity, automatic adjustment of atrial and ventricular sensing, and ventricular autothreshold to automatically adjust pacingoutput in case of changing thresholds, thereby enhancing the device performance and longevity.
“I have worked closely with Sorin Group for the last 15 years. Sorin is strongly committed to better patient outcomes,” said professor Frédéric Anselme, Rouen University Hospital, France. “Sorin’s new small and long-lasting Reply and Esprit devices have brought tremendous benefits to thousands of European patients. These clinical benefits will now be made available to patients in China who will also be given chances to rely on their heart’s natural conduction when it is intact,” he added.
“Sorin Group is the market leader in the cardiac surgery segment in China. Sorin Group has a long tradition of delivering innovative therapies for the management of cardiac arrhythmia and heart failure patients over the last 40 years,” Jerry Wang, general manager, Sorin Group China. “We are very proud to be able to bring the world’s smallest pacemaker family to patients and physicians in China.”
