Heart Disease Diagnosis

New cardiac device approved by FDA

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 22nd, 2004

CardioMag has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell in the United States its revolutionary cardiac device, which can detect the magnetic field generated by a person's heart.

The CardioMag system has demonstrated that it is capable of working in a typical open clinical setting, such as the non-invasive cardiology lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where groundbreaking research is being carried out.

The device cleared by the FDA is called a magnetocardiograph (MCG). Six hospitals are already using the device to study, for instance, the ability of MCG to detect coronary artery disease, which is the...

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