CryoLife Inc.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
1655 Roberts Blvd. NW, Ste. 142, Kennesaw, GA 30144-3632, United States
(800)438-8285, (770)419-3355, (770)426-0031 fax, http://www.cryolife.com

Primary SIC: Surgical And Medical Instruments, Primary NAICS: Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing
Description: CryoLife Inc. was incorporated on January 19, 1984 in Florida. The company preserves and distributes human tissues for cardiac and vascular transplant applications and develops and commercializes medical devices. The human tissue distributed by CryoLife includes the CryoValve SG pulmonary human heart valve, which is processed using CryoLife's proprietary SynerGraft technology. The company's medical devices include BioGlue Surgical Adhesive and Hemostase, which the company distributes for Medafor, Inc. as well as other medical devices. CryoLife distributes preserved human cardiac and vascular tissue to implanting institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The company preserves cardiac and vascular human tissue using special freezing techniques, or cryopreservation. Management believes the human tissues it distributes offer specific advantages over mechanical, synthetic and animal-derived alternatives. Depending on the alternative, these advantages include more natural blood flow properties for its preserved human heart valves, the elimination of a need for long-term drug therapy to prevent excessive blood clotting and a reduced risk of catastrophic failure, thromboembolism (stroke) or calcification. On February 7, 2008 the CryoLife received a Section 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its CryoValve SG. The company's products are often sold in international markets several years before they can be marketed in the United States.Services: Provider of medical services, including the preservation of human tissues for cardiovascular, vascular and orthopaedic transplant aplications, tissue-engineered, porcine heart valves and bovine vascular grafts. Manufacturing: Implantable medical devices and heart valves.