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Medical / SynCardia Announce Successful Four-Year Bridge to Transplant with
SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Support
29-year-old patient supported for more than 1,600 days on the SynCardia Total Artificial
Heart before receiving a donor heart transplant
Ariz., March 17, 2026 - Picard Medical, Inc. (NYSE American: PMI) (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 a 29-year-old patient successfully received a donor heart transplant after living for more than four years
supported entirely by the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart.
patient was implanted with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart on September 2, 2021, after developing severe biventricular
heart failure. The device replaced the pumping function of both sides of the heart, maintaining circulation while the patient awaited
a donor organ. After 1,636 days of continuous artificial heart support, the patient underwent a successful heart transplant on
challenge in advanced heart failure is often the time required to find a suitable donor organ," said Patrick NJ Schnegelsberg,
Chief Executive Officer of Picard Medical. "This case demonstrates how the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart can sustain critically
ill patients for extended periods, allowing them to live at home while awaiting heart transplantation."
artificial heart therapy is indicated as a bridge to transplant for patients with irreversible biventricular heart failure who
cannot be supported with isolated left ventricular assist device therapy. By replacing both ventricles and all four native heart
valves, the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart restores circulation and hemodynamic stability while patients await donor organ availability.
than 2,100 SynCardia Total Artificial Heart implants have been performed worldwide in patients with advanced biventricular heart
failure, with the longest documented patient support exceeding eight years on device.
individual outcomes may vary, extended duration support cases continue to inform clinical practice and illustrate the potential
for long term mechanical circulatory support in carefully selected patients.
Picard Medical and SynCardia
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 circulatory 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.
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.
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