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Japanese authority approves St. Jude’s MRI-safe pacemaker and Edwards’ Sapien XT, the first transcatheter aortic valve approved in that country. More new products.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved St. Jude Medical Inc.’s Accent MRI MRI-compatible pacemaker along with the Tendril MRI lead, the company announced June 27. St. Jude is launching both devices in Japan immediately.

According to St. Jude, the Accent MRI pacemaker is the only commercially available system approved in Japan to allow patients...

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