Picard Medical to Present the Next Generation Fully Implantable SynCardia Total Artificial Heart at ISMCS 2025
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Picard Medical, Inc. (NYSE:PMI) ("Picard" or the "Company"), parent company of SynCardia Systems LLC, maker of the world's first total artificial heart approved by both the U.S. FDA and Health Canada, today announced that it will present in vitro data on the fully implantable Emperor Total Artificial Heart (TAH) at the 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support (ISMCS 2025), held in Vienna, Austria from December 1st through 4th, 2025.
Details of the presentation are below:
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 14:05 Central European Time (CET).
Session: Mini Oral Session 3: Hemocompatibility and Heart/Pump Interaction
Presentation Title: "The Emperor Total Artificial Heart: A Next Generation, Fully Implantable Total Artificial Heart"
Presenter: Duffy Elmer, Engineering Project Manager, Picard Medical, Inc.
The presentation will highlight benchtop performance data from the Emperor, SynCardia's fully implantable next generation Total Artificial Heart platform. The system uses an internal motor driven design that eliminates the need for any external pneumatic driver and is engineered to significantly improve patient mobility and quality of life.
About ISMCS 2025
ISMCS 2025 is the 31st annual global congress of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support. The meeting brings together researchers, clinicians, engineers and industry leaders in mechanical circulatory support. It provides a forum to review new clinical research, discuss emerging technologies, and highlight next generation device innovations.
About Picard Medical and SynCardia
Picard Medical, Inc. is the parent company of SynCardia Systems, LLC ("SynCardia"), the Tucson, Arizona–based leader with the only commercially available total artificial heart technology for patients with end-stage heart failure. SynCardia develops, manufactures, and commercializes the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart ("STAH"), an implantable system that assumes the full functions of a failing or failed human heart. It is the first artificial heart approved by both the FDA and Health Canada, and it remains the only commercially available artificial heart in the United States and Canada. With more than 2,100 implants performed at hospitals across 27 countries, the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart is the most widely used and extensively studied artificial heart in the world.
For additional information about Picard Medical, please visit www.picardmedical.com or review the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Contact:
Investors
Eric Ribner
Managing Director
LifeSci Advisors LLC
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Picard Medical, Inc./SynCardia Systems, LLC
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General/Media
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