BioXgen’s cardiac patch goes on during surgery, works through the four-day POAF risk window, and resorbs into surrounding tissue before the patient leaves recovery.

Post-operative atrial fibrillation develops in up to 50% of open-heart surgery patients within the first four days after the procedure, doubling mortality risk, quadrupling stroke likelihood, driving a sevenfold increase in acute kidney injury, and extending hospital stays by three to seven days on average. For roughly 45% of those patients it becomes a recurring […]