Luther Medical to Test Material for Hearts

Luther Medical Products Inc. of Santa Ana said Wednesday that it will begin evaluating a new, injectable material to aid victims of heart and arterial disease.

The research project calls for Pacific CardioSciences of Vancouver, British Columbia to conduct tests on a flexible material that could be injected into a patient’s arteries to become the new lining for the patient’s damaged veins.

Janos G. Stiasny, Pacific CardioSciences president, said the material, if perfected, would offer a more economical and less potentially harmful treatment for heart and artery disease than currently available.

The research project is currently in its early stages and clinical trials are scheduled to start in 1986.