Sunshine Heart Announces 1Q12 Financial Results
2012 Off to Solid Start With Achievement of U.S. NASDAQ Listing; Several Regulatory Milestones on the Horizon
(firmenpresse) - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and EDEN PRAIRIE, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- Sunshine Heart, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSH) (ASX: SHC) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012.
"Sunshine Heart began 2012 with an exciting first quarter," said Dave Rosa, Sunshine Heart's CEO. "We are pleased to have achieved our NASDAQ listing and we made critical progress toward key regulatory approvals during the quarter. With the FDA's review of our feasibility data behind us, we look forward to the many important milestones on the horizon for the remainder of 2012, most notably CE Mark and IDE approval for our C-Pulse Heart Assist System."
Operating expenses in the quarter totaled $4.1 million, up from $2.9 million in the first quarter of last year. The increase was attributable to higher selling, general and administrative expenses related to the Company's completion of the NASDAQ listing process, the change in its fiscal year end, and preparation for the Company's European trials expected to commence later in the second half of 2012. Research and development expenses decreased from the prior year quarter primarily as a result of the timing of certain development activities and clinical trial expenses. As a result, net loss in the quarter was $4.1 million compared to a loss of $2.8 million in the first quarter of 2011. This was in line with management's expectations.
The Company ended the first quarter with a cash balance of $3.8 million, having raised $2.1 million during the quarter. Cash used in operating activities in the quarter was $4.8 million, up from $2.8 million in the first quarter of 2011. Management expects the cash burn rate in the second quarter 2012 to be lower than in the first quarter 2012.
CE Mark achievement expected in 2Q12
IDE approval from the FDA expected in 3Q12
Announcement of EU site selection commencing in 3Q12
The C-Pulse Heart Assist System, an investigational device, utilizes the proven scientific principles of intra-aortic balloon counter-pulsation applied in an extra-aortic approach to assist the left ventricle by reducing the workload required to pump blood throughout the body, while increasing blood flow to the coronary arteries. Operating outside the patient's bloodstream, the novel extra-aortic approach of the C-Pulse technology offers greater flexibility allowing patients to disconnect as necessary or desired. The C-Pulse system's potential benefits may help reverse the heart failure process or maintain the patient's current condition, which may reduce the need for later stage heart failure therapies, such as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), artificial hearts or transplants. Caution: Investigational device, limited by Federal (or United States) Law to Investigational use.
Sunshine Heart is a global medical device company committed to the commercialization of the C-Pulse Heart Assist System, an implantable, non-blood contacting, heart assist therapy for the treatment of moderate to severe heart failure which can be implanted using a minimally invasive procedure. C-Pulse is designed to relieve the symptoms of heart failure through the use of counter-pulsation technology which enables an increase in cardiac output, an increase in coronary blood flow and a reduction in the heart's pumping load. The Company has completed an approved U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) feasibility clinical trial with the C-Pulse System with results presented November 2011. Sunshine Heart is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Minneapolis with a subsidiary presence in Australia. The Company has been listed on the ASX since September 2004 and on NASDAQ beginning February of 2012. For more information, please visit .
Certain statements in this report are forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, assumptions and expectations and information currently available to management. All statements that address future operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future are forward-looking statements, including without limitation, our expectations with respect to product development and commercialization efforts, results of clinical trials, timing of regulatory filings and approvals, regulatory acceptance of our filings, research and development activities, ultimate clinical outcomes and benefits of our products to patients, market and physician acceptance of the products, intellectual property protection, and potentially competitive product offerings. The risk factors described in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and ASX could cause actual events to adversely differ from the expectations indicated in these forward-looking statements. Management believes that these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made. However, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements because they speak only as of the date when made. Sunshine Heart does not assume any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Sunshine Heart may not actually achieve the plans, projections or expectations disclosed in forward-looking statements, and actual results, developments or events could differ materially from those disclosed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, the possibility that regulatory authorities do not accept our application or approve the marketing of the C-Pulse Heart System, the possibility we may be unable to raise the funds necessary for the development and commercialization of our products, and those described in our filings with the ASX and SEC. We may update our risk factors from time to time.
For further information, please contact:
Jeff Mathiesen
Chief Financial Officer
Sunshine Heart, Inc.
T: +1 952 345 4200
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