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Year-end Report 22-01-01 until 22-12-31

Press Release 24 February, 2023

Summary of the Year-end Report

* Equity ratio: equity divided by total capital.

** Earnings per share: profit for the period divided by 33 183 461.

Proposed Treatment of the Company's Retained Earnings

The Board of Directors propose that the company's earnings be carried forward in the amount of 5 873 671.

No dividends will be paid to shareholders.

Revenue and Results

Scandinavian Real Heart is working with research and development and currently has no sales of any products. The income reported for the period consists mainly of foreign currenty exhance gains. Research and development costs of Realheart® TAH were capitalized during the year with 21.2 MSEK. During the period, write-downs of capitalized costs for research and development were made by 0 MSEK.

The item other external costs of 24.5 MSEK consists of costs for purchased services of 10.2 MSEK and various other costs of 14.3 MSEK. Of these costs, 21.2 MSEK has been capitalized.

Financial Position

With a cash balance of 11.3 MSEK, the companty has funding that will last into second quarter of 2023. In order to solve the Company's longer-term financing needs, Realheart works continuously to evaluate alternatives for further capitalization of the Company.

Significant Events During the Fourth Quarter of the Year

• In early October, Realheart's CEO Ina Laura Perkins will appear at the Transplantation Forum organised by Focus Patient in collaboration with The Gift of Life and the European Society of Organ Transplanta- tion, ESOT, at the City Conference Center in Stock- holm. Among the speakers will be Dr Bartley Griffith, an American surgeon who recently performed a high-profile pig heart transplant for a human.

• At the end of October, it is announced that Realheart's artificial heart is featured in a German TV documentary on heart disease and new scientific developments, broadcast on ZDF on 25 October. Both Realheart's founder Azad Najar and Dr Dilek Gürsoy, who is part of the company's surgical team for the ongoing animal studies, are interviewed in the programme.

• The last thing to happen in October is that the third implantation on animals is completed and trials continue. Once again, the implantation went quickly and progress was made, among other things, in the optimal placement of the pump.

Significant Events After the End of the Period

• A step into January, the company reaches a new milestone with Realheart TAH. Since the series of animal trials with the clinical version of the company's artificial heart began in 2022, Realheart has been able to progressively increase survival time from the previous milestone of one day to four days. After implantation, the animal has been able to stand up and eat. In addition, several key performance criteria were confirmed.

• In the second half of January, a press release announces that Realheart and KTH are optimising heart function in Sweden's first patient simulator. The collaboration between Realheart and KTH to develop the simulator (scientific term: "hybrid simulator") started in 2022 after a grant of SEK 4 million from Vinnova Smart Elektronik.

• At the end of January, it is announced that Dr. Ulf Kjellman strengthens Realheart's medical council. Ulf Kjellman has over 35 years of experience in cardiac and thoracic surgery and was involved in the introduction of HeartMate II, HeartMate 3, Centrimag, Maquet pumps, Berlin Excor and SynCardia TAH, among others.

• The last event of January is that the company is offering subscription right holders the right to subscribe to HEART TO1. The subscription period will run from 1-28 February 2023.

CEO Ina Laura Perkins "Our heart surgeons speak warmly about our artificial heart"

In the last three months of the year, we made progress in three areas: international marketing, soft funding and our animal studies. In October, our Realheart® TAH was featured in prime time on the German TV channel ZDF in a documentary on heart disease.

A German TV crew visited one of our surgeries to interview the company's founder Azad Najar and the heart surgeon Dilek Gürsoy who performs the operations. Interviewer was a German celebrity chef who has a heart condition himself, and the show followed a young woman with heart failure on her road to a successful heart transplant. The documentary highlights Realheart as a promising alternative solution to the organ shortage.

Germany is one of the largest markets in Europe for artificial hearts. To learn more, I visited the clinic that performs the most heart pump surgeries in the country: the Medical University of Hannover. There I interviewed heart surgeon Professor Jan Schmitto, who said that in Germany alone, 40,000-60,000 artificial hearts are needed each year. This means that we have underestimated the need.

Proof of the strong need is the sales forecast for 2023 from our European competitor. They started selling in November and expect to sell over 100 hearts in the first year at revenues of €10-13 million and scale up production to 1000 hearts by 2027. This is great news for heart failure patients in Europe, but it is only enough for a fraction of patients. Doctors are reminding us that even more artificial hearts are urgently needed.

The situation is similar in the rest of the world. In December, I spoke at the Critical Heart Disease Congress in China. The digital conference has so far been viewed by 24,000 viewers, including doctors and healthcare professionals from Australia, the UK, Austria, Italy, the US and China. I also gave an introduction to the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support (ISMCS), for which I have been on the Board since May. Through these networks, we can find the right partners and future customers faster, and raise awareness of artificial hearts as a cure for heart failure. The marketing has already had an impact as I have received enquiries from doctors in Brazil and elsewhere.

To start clinical trials, we need good results from animal studies in addition to blood and durability tests. During the year, we have worked on the surgical process and animal care, for example on the settings of the heart-lung machine. We have realized that this is not readily available knowledge but that we are building up valuable unique know-how within the team. Therefore, we decided not to communicate as frequently and in as much detail about our animal studies as we had done in the past. I understand that this may frustrate shareholders, but I can assure you that we have quietly made great progress: 4 days of survival without blood damage.

Developing an artificial heart requires excellence throughout the entire chain – from idea to marketing and sales. This chain is complete with us, we have all the pieces needed to get to market. Here, our international expertise from several artificial heart projects contributes greatly, as it is a challenge to find equivalent in Sweden. I am convinced that our diversity contributes strongly to our success. It is awesome that we have over 100 years of combined expertise.

In addition to a strong team and good results, continued funding is needed to reach the market. Therefore, we are working on the due diligence process for the European Innovation Council fund which has nominated us for €15 million investment, as well as on finding soft funding. We are very grateful that ALMI chose to continue supporting our work with an innovation loan of 7.6 million SEK. In the first quarter of 2023, our shareholders can further strengthen our cash position via the share option. The funding will be used for animal studies and to start the blood tests on the clinical version of Realheart TAH – we are proceeding nicely according to our plan in other words.

Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Swedish innovation power has given the world medical technology inventions such as the heart and lung machine, the pacemaker and the dialysis machine. The next big innovation is Realheart's artificial heart. A Swedish patented innovation that will save the lives of heart failure patients. Every year, almost 3,500 people die of heart failure in Sweden alone. Today, the best treatment is a heart transplant, but the number of donated hearts is only enough for 2% of those in need.

The idea behind Realheart was born in 1999, when the doctor and innovator Azad Najar made the first sketch of an artificial heart that fully mimics the biological one. In 2007, Azad co-founded Scandinavian Real Heart with two partners. The original idea behind Realheart® TAH is based on flow analyzes made at KTH 2002-2005 and is based on constructing an artificial heart that mimics the biological. By imitating its basic principle, a pressure and flow is created with the aim to reduce the risk of blood clots and provides an energy-efficient blood flow. These factors are important to give the patient a good quality of life. The development of the product has progressed strongly over the years. Blood circulation, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pump function and pulse generation have been verified in ethically approved animal experiments. Today, research and development takes place in close collaboration with world-leading heart surgeons, researchers and engineers.

Patent Protection

Realheart has granted patents in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and India that protect the original pump principle in TAH. This patent also provides protection for future products: RealVAD® and PulsePump®.

Patent protection is also available on the latest version of Realheart® TAH in Sweden, USA, UK, Australia and Japan. The patent application for it has also been filed for Germany and Canada. The patents provide protection in the markets that are largest and most important for artificial hearts right now, with the exception of China and India which are considered important emerging markets. In addition to the patent protection described above, Realheart has also approved patents in Sweden, the USA and the United Kingdom for the future Sternal prosthesis product. The application is also submitted in Germany and France. In 2018, a new connection was designed for a simple and secure connection between Realheart® TAH and the body's circulatory system. The patent application for this has also been filed.

Finally, the patent application has been filed in two parts for the use of pressure sensors for the automatic control. Given the existing patents together with the new patent applications, the Board believes that the company has a strong patent situation and strong intellectual property protection.

Mission and Goal

Realheart's mission is to use medical technology solutions to save as many heart failure patients as possible and to create the best conditions for a good quality of life. The company's overall goal is for the artificial heart to be commercialized and become a full-fledged treatment alternative for patients with heart failure. The heart should have a better function than the solutions that are on the market today. It should be possible to use both as a bridge to transplantation and as permanent therapy.

The Stock

Scandinavian Real Heart AB was listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in December 2021. Nasdaq First North GM is a registered SME marketplace for growth companies that enables Nordic and international entrepreneurs to gain access to growth capital to develop and expand their operations. As of September 30, 2022, the number of shares in Scandinavian Real Heart was 33,183,461.

Principles for the Preparation of the Interim Report

The interim report has been prepared in accordance with the Annual Accounts Act and with the application of general advice, recommendations and statements from the Swedish Accounting Standards Board.

Audit Review

The interim report has not been reviewed by the Company's auditor.

Upcoming Financial Reports

Submission of Interim Report

Västerås, Februari 24, 2023

The Board

Scandinavian Real Heart AB

For Further Information, Please Contact

Ina Laura Perkins

CEO Scandinavian Real Heart AB
Phone: +46 70 406 49 21
E-mail: inalaura.perkins@realheart.se

Jonas Caspari Bark

CFO Scandinavian Real Heart AB
Mobile +46 70 643 88 61
E-mail: jonas.bark@realheart.se

This disclosure contains information that Real Heart is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Scandinavian Real Heart AB’s news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.

Link to archive for financial reports: https://realheart.se/sv/investerare/arkiv/

REMINDER: HEART TO1 Redemption Period Coming to an end

Press Release 22 February, 2023

February 24 is the last day for trading in warrants of series TO1 in Scandinavian Real Heart AB ("Realheart" or the "Company"). The subscription period for the warrants runs until 28 February 2023. Please note that some trustees will close their registration earlier than 28 February 2023. The last day for trading is Friday 24 February.

For holders who have their warrants registered in a trustee's account, for example in a custody account at a bank, it is important to notify in good time that you wish to exercise your warrants. Realheart recommends that holders who have not received notification from their custodian make contact themselves immediately to avoid the risk of the warrants expiring worthless. Holders should either actively subscribe for shares by 28 February 2023 (note that trustees may have an earlier deadline for response) or sell them via First North by 24 February 2023.

Exercise of warrants, directly registered holders

Directly registered holders of HEART TO1 must notify the exercise of warrants by completing and submitting a special notification form to the issuing institution, Nordic Issuing AB. The notification form must be received by Nordic Issuing AB no later than 28 February 2023. Please note that payment for the new shares must also be received by Nordic Issuing AB no later than 28 February, in accordance with the instructions on the notification form. The subscription form for direct registered holders can be downloaded from Nordic Issuing's website, https://nordic-issuing.se/

Exercise of warrants, nominee-registered holders
Trustee-registered holders of warrants (i.e., for example, if the holding is held in a custody account with a bank or stockbroker) must notify the exercise of warrants by contacting their trustee and following the trustee's instructions regarding notification of subscription and payment. Please note that trustees may have a deadline for replying which falls before the closing date for registration.

Delivery of new shares
The new shares will be delivered to subscribers' accounts as interim shares (HEART IA). They will then be admitted to trading on First North as soon as the issue has been registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear, which is expected to be in mid-March 2023.

Outcome and delivery of new shares
The outcome of the exercise of the TO1 warrants will be announced via press release as soon as possible and is expected to take place a few days after the end of the subscription period. As soon as the issue has been registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear, interim shares (IA) will be converted into ordinary shares and admitted to trading on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market.

TO1, terms in brief:

  • Four (4) HEART TO1s entitle the holder to subscribe for one (1) newly issued share in Realheart.
  • The subscription period for exercise starts on February 1 and ends on February 28, 2023. The last day for trading in the TO1 is February 24, 2023.
  • The issue price upon exercise of options is SEK 2.36 per share.

The subscription price was set on 27 January at SEK 2.36 per share in accordance with the option terms, i.e. 70 per cent of the volume-weighted average price during the period.

Full terms and conditions for HEART TO1

The full terms and conditions of HEART TO 1 can be downloaded from www.realheart.se. Warrant exercise instructions and application form are available at www.realheart.se.

Financial advisor and underwriter

Skills Corporate Finance Nordic AB is the financial advisor and Nordic Issuing AB is the issuing agent to Realheart in connection with the exercise of warrants of series TO1.

The warrants, with ISIN code SE0016589246, are traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market. For more information about the warrants of series TO1, please contact Nordic Issuing.

Professor Bart Meyns Strengthens Realheart’s Advisory Board

Press Release 21 February, 2023

The Swedish company Realheart, which is developing the world's first four-chamber artificial heart, is further strengthening its expertise when Belgian surgeon Bart Meyns joins the company's medical advisory board. Dr Meyns is a Professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium and is also leading Realheart's surgical team in the ongoing animal study.

Bart Meyns has been President of both the European Society of Artificial Organs, ESAO, and the International Society of Mechanical Circulatory Support, ISMCS, of which Realheart's CEO, Dr Ina Laura Perkins, is a board member. He has also published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals.

He is currently head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital UZ Leuven and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven. Professor Bart Meyns is part of the surgical team performing the implantations in Realheart's ongoing animal study, paving the way for clinical trials scheduled to begin in 2024.

''Bart Meyns is one of the most skilled and experienced cardiac surgeons available for heart pump implantations. He has been invaluable at the operating table during our animal trials, and I am delighted to be able to bring him even closer to us. His knowledge will be a very valuable addition to our competent medical board'' says Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

The medical advisory board also includes Professors Henrik Casimir Ahn, Robert D. Dowling and Zoltán Szabó and Dr Ulf Kjellman.

Dr Azad Najar Keynote Speaker at the Opening of the AI Congress in Cairo

Press Release 09 February, 2023

Realheart's founder, innovator and now medical director, Azad Najar, had the honor of presenting the company's artificial heart as keynote speaker at a congress in Cairo early this year. The congress had Artificial Intelligence (AI) as its main theme and was organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

“We are delighted that knowledge of our artificial heart has reached so many parts of the world, especially the Middle East, where very few heart transplants are performed, so almost all heart failure patients, regardless of age, die from the disease. The average age of heart failure patients is also about 10 years younger than in the Western world. There are about 100 million people living in the Middle East, including about 10 million in Cairo. Realheart has the potential to save lives and improve the quality of life for those affected, especially important where people are falling ill earlier and should have many years to live”, says Dr Azad Najar.

The interest in Realheart and Azad Najar's innovation has long been noticed in the Middle East and now Azad had the chance to, once again, spread the word about the company's artificial heart to an interested audience.

The congress gathered 125 participants from 25 countries and was mainly aimed at young researchers in applied artificial intelligence, including in the healthcare sector. Azad Najar presented his thoughts on how AI could be used in artificial organs in the future. Specifically, he discussed how AI can help improve patient safety in heart pump patients.

“Realheart® TAH is automatically controlled by sensors that detect the amount of blood flowing back to the heart, allowing it to control that the right amount of blood is pumped out of Realheart® TAH's chamber. The controller generates a large amount of data and we have been investigating how AI could be used to make sense of it for more than a year”, says Azad Najar.

In all studies conducted by the company, the system has demonstrated high efficiency and accuracy in automatic blood flow regulation. Realheart® TAH is one of the most advanced control systems available for artificial hearts. The control system's advanced control algorithm allows the artificial heart to meet the body's blood needs by adjusting the same factors as the human heart does, including heart rate and stroke volume, but also how to balance blood flow to the lungs and to the body. 

Correction: the Subscription Price for Realhearts Warrant TO1 is SEK 2.36

Press Release 31 January, 2023

Scandinavian Realheart AB ("Realheart" or the "Company"), issued during the third quarter of 2021 warrants of series 2021/2023 TO1 ("TO1"). The subscription period runs from February 1-28, 2023. Four (4) warrants of series TO1 entitle the holder to subscribe for one (1) newly issued share in Realheart. The subscription price has been set at SEK 2.36 per share in accordance with the terms of the warrants.

The previous press release stated the subscription price to be SEK 3.37, which is the volume weighted average price for the period 9-27 January 2023. According to the terms, the correct price shall be 70 percent of the volume weighted average price during the period, which amounts to SEK 2.36.

A total of 10 250 002 warrants of series TO1 are issued. Upon full exercise of the warrants, the number of shares in the company will increase from 33,183,461 by 2,562,500 shares to 35,745,961 shares, corresponding to a dilutive effect of approximately 7.2 percent of the capital and votes of Realheart.

Subscription instructions

Holders whose warrants are registered with a trustee (i.e. the warrants are held in a share deposit account, ISK account or endowment insurance) subscribe and make payment in accordance with the instructions of their bank or other trustee. If you have any questions, please contact your bank/trustee well in advance of Tuesday 28 February 2023, as different trustees have different processing times.

Directly registered holders (holding on VP account) of warrants of series TO1 must notify the redemption of warrants by completing and submitting the notification form for redemption of TO1, so that it is received by the issuing institution Nordic Issuing no later than 3.00 p.m. on 28 February 2023. The notification form for directly registered holders can be downloaded from Nordic Issuing's website, https://nordic-issuing.se/.

Issue and delivery of new shares

The outcome of the exercise of warrants of series TO1 will be announced via press release as soon as possible and is expected to take place a few days after the end of the subscription period.

As soon as the issue has been registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear, interim shares (IA) will be converted into ordinary shares and admitted to trading on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market.

Subscription price calculated and fixed

The subscription price for TO1 was fixed on 27 January 2023 at SEK 2.36 per share in accordance with the terms of the option. 

Financial advisor and issuing agent

Skills Corporate Finance Nordic AB is the financial advisor and Nordic Issuing AB is the issuing agent to Realheart in connection with the exercise of warrants of series TO1.

The warrants, with ISIN code SE0016589246, are traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market. For more information on the warrants of series TO1, please contact Nordic Issuing.

Link to document for full terms and conditions (in Swedish): https://realheart.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/fullstandliga-villkor-teckningsoptioner-realheart-to1.pdf

Information on Trading and Exercise of Warrants of Series TO1 in Realheart

Press Release 30 January, 2023

Scandinavian Realheart AB ("Realheart" or the "Company"), issued during the third quarter of 2021 warrants of series 2021/2023 TO1 ("TO1"). The subscription period will start soon and run from February 1-28, 2023, during which four (4) warrants of series TO1 will entitle to subscribe for one (1) share in Realheart. The subscription price for one new share has been set at 3.37 in accordance with the terms of the option.

A total of 10,250,002 warrants of series TO1 are issued. Upon full exercise of the warrants, the number of shares in the company will increase by 2,562,500 shares to 35 745 961 shares, corresponding to a dilution effect of approximately 7.2 percent of the capital and votes of Realheart.

Subscription instructions

Holders whose warrants are registered with a trustee (i.e. the warrants are held in a share deposit account, ISK account or endowment insurance) subscribe and make payment in accordance with the instructions of their bank or other trustee. If you have any questions, please contact your bank/trustee well in advance of Tuesday 28 February 2022, as different trustees have different processing times.

Directly registered holders (holding on VP account) of warrants of series TO1 must notify the redemption of warrants by completing and submitting the notification form for redemption of TO1, so that it is received by the issuing institution Nordic Issuing no later than 3:00 p.m. on 28 February 2022. The notification form for directly registered holders can be downloaded from Nordic Issuing's website, https://nordic-issuing.se/

Issue and delivery of new shares

The outcome of the redemption of the TO1 warrants will be announced via press release as soon as possible and is expected to take place a few days after the end of the subscription period.

As soon as the issue has been registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear, interim shares (IA) will be converted into ordinary shares and admitted to trading on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market.

Subscription price calculated and fixed

The subscription price for TO1 was fixed on 27 January 2023 at 3.37 SEK.

Financial advisor and underwriter

Skills Corporate Finance Nordic AB is the financial advisor and Nordic Issuing Fondkommission AB is the issuing agent to Realheart in connection with the exercise of warrants of series TO1.

The warrants, with ISIN code SE0016589246, are traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market. For more information on the warrants of series TO1, please contact Nordic Issuing.

Link to document for full terms and conditions (in Swedish):

Dr. Ulf Kjellman Strengthens Realheart’s Medical Advisory Board

Press Release 23 January, 2023

Realheart further strengthens its expertise with the appointment of Dr. Ulf Kjellman to the company's Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Kjellman has many years of experience in advanced surgical treatment of heart failure and was the surgeon who performed the first implant of an artificial heart in Scandinavia in 2008.

Ulf Kjellman has over 35 years of experience in cardiothoracic surgery. Among other things, he was deeply involved in initiating and developing the heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (MCS) programme at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Uppsala University Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, King Faisal Specialist Hospital Riyadh Saudi Arabia, and National Guard Hospital Riyadh Saudi Arabia. In addition, he introduced HeartMate II, HeartMate 3, Centrimag, Maquet pumps, Berlin Excor, and SynCardia TAH.

In addition to extensive clinical professional experience, Kjellman has authored numerous scientific articles with a focus on cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, his experience extends to the field of MCS, both LVAD/RVADs with single ventricle support and TAH.

“We are incredibly pleased and proud that Ulf Kjellman has chosen to assist us with his valuable expertise. His experience in cardiac surgery and transplantation at several major hospitals is of great importance for our future implantations where patients will receive Realheart® TAH. Kjellman also has an enormous network of contacts among potential customers, suppliers and partners, both in Sweden, Europe and the Middle East. I am so grateful to be able to connect him even more closely to our development work," says Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

Realheart and KTH Optimize Artificial Heart Function in Sweden’s First Patient Simulator

Press Release 19 January, 2023

Together with KTH, Realheart has developed a patient simulator to test the algorithm that controls the company's artificial heart enabling it to adapt to the body's needs.

The simulator is a digital model of the human heart, lungs and blood vessels connected to a mechanical test rig that can be used to model and measure the performance of the Realheart® TAH. The collaboration between Realheart and KTH to develop the simulator (scientific term: "hybrid simulator") began in 2022 after a contribution of SEK 4 million from Vinnova Smart Elektronik.

"Vinnova's mission is to strengthen Swedish competitiveness and we are excited to be part of this mission. A patient simulator in Sweden gives us and other Swedish companies the possibility to use local simulators for testing innovative devices. This gives us a substantial cost advantage since we no longer need to travel abroad to access simulators elsewhere in Europe and the US'', says Dr Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

The simulator developed by Realheart and KTH is similar to the one at ETH Zürich, which also supported this project. A key advantage of the Swedish simulator is that it uses technology potentially allowing testing in an MRI scanner.

"This is of particular interest to us, as we have developed an MR-compatible version of our artificial heart in collaboration with Linköping University. The patient simulator brings together two areas of research that contribute to increased patient safety in clinical trials and reduce the need for animal studies," says Dr Perkins.

By connecting the Realheart® TAH to the patient simulator, the interaction of the pump with the body can be studied in different scenarios and performance refined accordingly. This significantly streamlines product development and reduces costs. This will enable MiniHeart – the company's next artificial heart to be developed for women and patients with smaller bodies – to reach the market faster. Implantable cardiac support for patients with small body size is currently unavailable and urgently needed. Current devices are not designed for their needs.

Dr. Perkins has led the project together with Dr. Seraina Dual, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at KTH and an expert in testing heart pumps, sensor systems, MRI systems and control algorithms. Dr Dual has shown that smaller patients, such as women, suffer more side effects if heart pumps are not designed for them. 

''A lot is happening in medical sensors and cardiovascular devices in Sweden right now and this will increase the innovative potential in the research area. I am proud to have built such a complex system during my first year in Sweden as an assistant professor at KTH, and to be able to contribute to fewer animal experiments'', said Dr Seraina Dual.

Realheart Reaches New Milestone With the World’s First Four Chamber Artificial Heart

Press Release, 10 January 2023

Scandinavian Real Heart AB, the company developing the world's first four-chamber total artificial heart (TAH), successfully extended the survival of animals implanted with Realheart’s TAH.

Since the series of animal trials with the clinical version of the company's TAH began in 2022, Realheart has been able to increase survival time from one to four days.

After implantation, the animal was able to stand up and eat. In addition, Scandinavian Real Heart was able to confirm key TAH performance criteria, including:

  • No haemolysis (damage to red blood cells): Haemolysis due to mechanical stress caused by artificial hearts on blood cells is a major cause of severe side effects impacting survival of artificial heart patients over time.
  • No thromboembolic events (blood clots): Good blood flow and low mechanical stress in the TAH minimise the risk of very serious, and life-threatening consequences for patients, including stroke. 
  • High pumping capacity and good right-left balance: The TAH can pump eight litres of blood per minute. This is significantly more capacity than what an adult human needs. The balance between blood flow from the right and left ventricles is crucial for survival.
  • Short procedure: A heart-lung machine used during the implantation of the TAH was disconnected after less than 2.5 hours. The extended use of a heart-lung machine during open heart surgeries poses considerable safety risks to patients. Realheart is developing its TAH to reduce time on a heart-lung machine and overall procedure times, therefore improving overall safety.

''I am incredibly pleased with how much we have been able to achieve after just a few implantations of our TAH. The fact that we see no signs of haemolysis or blood clots, combined with the fact that we can achieve good left-right balance, a pulsatile blood flow, and natural blood pressure, is extremely satisfying. We are now moving forward with the aim of continuing to further prolong survival time by optimising the surgical methodology,'' said Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart. The company plans to initiate human clinical trials in 2024.

This disclosure contains information that Real Heart is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Scandinavian Real Heart AB’s news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.

Correction: Interim Report 220701-220930

Press Release 7 December, 2022

In November 2022, the company discovered a misstatement of grants in the Q3 report, as the government grants received are reported as other operating income. The terms of the government grants require the grants to fund the company's development projects and are recorded as advance government grants on the balance sheet. The net amount does not affect the cash flow of the enterprise but is a transfer from the income statement to the balance sheet.

The impact on the Parent Company and the Group for Q3, 2022 will be as follows:

Interim Report 220701-220930

Press Release 18 November, 2022

Summery of Interim Report

Group Overview

Third Quarter 2022
(2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30)

• Operating income amounted to 14 365 624 SEK.

• Earnings after financial items amounted to

  2 998 939 SEK.

• Balance sheet total,122 003 532 SEK.

• Earnings per share * amounted to SEK 0.09.

• Equity / assets ratio was 95%.

Parent Company Overview

First to Third Quarter 2022
(2022-01-01 – 2022-09-30)

• Operating income amounted to 14 375 624 (545 146) SEK.

• Earnings after financial items amounted to 3 086 779  (- 5 418 826) SEK.

• Balance sheet total, 121 112 466 (140 666 993) SEK.

• Earnings per share * amounted to SEK 0.09 (-0.16) SEK.

• Equity / assets ratio was 94% (40%).

Third Quarter 2022
(2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30)

• Operating income amounted to 13 471 835 (16 445) SEK.

• Earnings after financial items amounted to 8 997 861 (-1 410 135) SEK.

Balance sheet total, 121 112 466 (140 666 993) SEK.

• Earnings per share * amounted to SEK 0.27 (-0.04) SEK.

• Equity / assets ratio was 94% (40%).

* Earnings per share: Earnings for the period divided by 33 183 461.
** Equity ratio: Equity divided by total capital.
Amounts in parentheses refer to the corresponding period last year.

Significant Events During the Third Quarter of the Year

•   July begins with a successful second implantation of the clinical version of Realheart TAH in sheep. The important milestone of 24-hour survival is achieved.

•  At the end of August, one of Realheart's biomedical engineers presents the company's work on developing methods to measure blood damage in pulsatile pumps. This at a conference on blood damage caused by heart pumps, organised by the University of Rostock in Germany.

•  September begins with the Realheart team attending the European Society of Artificial Organs (ESAO) conference in Austria. Three of the company's engineers present their research while the CEO and CTO are on hand to make contacts and represent the company.

•  In the last days of September, the Company announces that the third implantation on animals is scheduled to take place in October.

Significant Events After the End of the Period

•   Three days into October, Realheart's CEO appears at FOKUS Patient, organised by Fokus Patient in collaboration with the Gift of Life and the European Society of Organ Transplantation, ESOT.  The presentation is entitled ''When organs are not enough'' in the block on the future of organs and organ donation. Another speaker in the same session was Dr Bartley Griffith, an American surgeon who recently performed a high profile pig heart transplant in a human heart failure patient.

•  Midway through October, Realheart is granted an additional loan from Almi of SEK 7.6 million, which will ensure continued rapid product development targeting clinical trials.

Revenue and Result

Scandinavian Real Heart is currently working with research and development and currently has no sales of any products. The turnover reported for the period consists of grants received. Research and development costs of Realheart® TAH were capitalized during Q3 with 15.9 million. During the period, write-downs of capitalized costs for research and development were made by 0 million.

The item other external costs of 19.9 million consists of costs for purchased services of 8.9 million and various other costs of SEK 11.0 million. Of these costs, 15.9 million has been capitalized.

Financial Position

Following the rights issue completed in 2021, the Company is now in a strong liquidity position with approx. SEK 22 million. Together with the grant of SEK 25.7 million that we have been granted from the EIC and which we will receive in 2022/2024, we have funding that will last into quarter 2, 2023.

In order to solve the Company's longer-term financing needs, Realheart works continuously to evaluate alternatives for further capitalization of the Company.

CEO Ina Laura Perkins has the Word

The development of Realheart® TAH continued with a high level of activity throughout the summer. We continued to work on our virtual implantations where we have now increased the number of patients to 15, and the pump has proven to be compatible with all male patients' bodies. The virtual implantations have also enabled us to start defining the dimensions for our follow-up product MiniHeart, which is intended for female patients among others. Nice synergies, in other words.

In July, we performed the second implantation on sheep and reached the milestone of 24 hours survival, which was extremely satisfying for the whole team. The pump did what it was supposed to do and the implantation proceeded smoothly, again providing a beneficial short time on the heart-lung machine before the complicated aftercare of the animal took place. Now that we are past the first critical day, we aim to gradually increase the survival time of each operation – and in parallel fine-tune the software of the controller based on the data we collect.

Something else I carry with me from this quarter is our participation in the ESAO conference in Austria. It brought together many of those who could be our future key customers and partners, and we had many fruitful discussions with representatives of the international clinical community, where we were able to learn about their experiences in treating patients with the artificial hearts available today. Several cardiac surgeons expressed an interest in our work, and several offered to help in various ways, such as with clinical trials.

“Implanting a TAH is the easiest thing you can do, you press a button and the patient is stable”, said one doctor, and we found that the main obstacle to the use of artificial hearts is the risk of side effects and the need for continued care. There is no product that combines easy implantation with reduced blood damage and that gives the patient a high quality of life – but that is only a few years away now.

As we know, we have identified blood damage reduction as one of our key success factors, so it is particularly interesting to see how our competitors are working. During the conference, we were able to hear a presentation from a company that has chosen to have an external consultant perform their tests on blood from cows. We carry out our tests on human blood in our own laboratory – something few others have access to – and because human blood is three times more sensitive than that of cows, we expect to get more reliable answers on how the heart pump will perform in the human body.

In return, some of our engineers had the opportunity to present their work related to our testing activities to the conference participants. We have, as I often point out, a team with a unique collective expertise and I was really proud to see the great interest in Soteris Andreous, Joseph Bornoff and Faisal Zaman's methodology for durability, simulation and blood testing. We also received an award for our collaboration with the University of Bath.

The interest from students who want to collaborate with us is very high, and I see this as a channel for continued future recruitment of high-skilled talent. We currently have an MSc student from the University of Twente in the Netherlands who is working on making our blood testing rig more user-friendly. This will help tremendously as we perform tests every week and will continue to do so throughout the development process. Furthermore, our students from Uppsala University and the Royal Institute of Technology continue their work with us.

In August, our new CFO Jonas Caspari Bark joined us. Jonas will have a very important role as a unifying force at our headquarters in Västerås, as I am in the blood lab in Stockholm or abroad a lot of the time. We are building a good structure for the company so that I can focus on the right things as we continue our journey towards clinical trials and the market.

Ina Laura Perkins
CEO, Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Swedish innovation power has given the world medical technology inventions such as the heart and lung machine, the pacemaker and the dialysis machine. The next big innovation is Realheart's artificial heart. A Swedish patented innovation that will save the lives of heart failure patients. Every year, almost 3,500 people die of heart failure in Sweden alone. Today, the only rescue is a heart transplant, but the number of donated hearts is only enough for 2% of those in need.

The idea behind Realheart was born in 1999, when the doctor and innovator Azad Najar made the first sketch of an artificial heart that fully mimics the biological one. In 2007, Azad co-founded Scandinavian Real Heart with two partners. The original idea behind Realheart® TAH is based on flow analyzes made at KTH 2002- 2005 and is based on constructing an artificial heart that mimics the biological. By imitating its basic principle, a pressure and flow is created with the aim to reduce the risk of blood clots and provides an energy-efficient blood flow. These factors are important to give the patient a good quality of life. The development of the product has progressed strongly over the years. Blood circulation, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pump function and pulse generation have been verified in ethically approved animal experiments. Today, research and development takes place in close collaboration with world-leading heart surgeons, researchers and engineers.

Patent Protection

Realheart has granted patents in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and India that protect the original pump principle in TAH. This patent also provides protection for future products: RealVAD® and PulsePump®.

Patent protection is also available on the latest version of Realheart® TAH in Sweden, USA, UK, Australia and Japan. The patent application for it has also been filed for Germany and Canada. The patents provide protection in the markets that are largest and most important for artificial hearts right now, with the exception of China and India which are considered important emerging markets. In addition to the patent protection described above, Realheart has also approved patents in Sweden, the USA and the United Kingdom for the future Sternal prosthesis product. The application is also submitted in Germany and France. In 2018, a new connection was designed for a simple and secure connection between Realheart® TAH and the body's circulatory system. The patent application for this has also been filed.

Finally, the patent application has been filed in two parts for the use of pressure sensors for the automatic control. Given the existing patents together with the new patent applications, the Board believes that the company has a strong patent situation and strong intellectual property protection.

Mission and Goal

Realheart's mission is to use medical technology solutions to save as many heart failure patients as possible and to create the best conditions for a life-affirming continuation of life. The company's overall goal is for the artificial heart to be commercialized and become a full-fledged treatment alternative for patients with heart failure. The heart should have a better function than the solutions that are on the market today. It should be possible to use both as a bridge to transplantation and as final therapy.

The Stock

Scandinavian Real Heart AB was listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in December 2021. Nasdaq First North GM is a registered SME marketplace for growth companies that enables Nordic and international entrepreneurs to gain access to growth capital to develop and expand their operations. As of September 30, 2022, the number of shares in Scandinavian Real Heart was 33,183,461.

Principles for the Preparation of the Interim Report

The interim report has been prepared in accordance with the Annual Accounts Act and with the application of general advice, recommendations and statements from the Swedish Accounting Standards Board.

Audit Review

The interim report has not been reviewed by the Company's auditor.

Upcoming Financial Reports

Year-end Report, 2022 2023-02-24

Interim Report Q1, 2023 2023-05-18

Submission of Interim Report

Västerås, November 18, 2022
The Board
Scandinavian Real Heart AB

For Further Information, Please Contact

Ina Laura Perkins
CEO Scandinavian Real Heart
Phone: +46 70 406 49 21
E-mail: inalaura.perkins@realheart.se

Jonas Caspari Bark
CFO Scandinavian Real Heart
Mobile +46 70 643 88 61
E-mail: jonas.bark@realheart.se

This disclosure contains information that Real Heart is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Scandinavian Real Heart AB’s news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.

Link to archive for financial reports: https://realheart.se/sv/investerare/arkiv/

Third Animal Implantation Completed – Trials Continue

Press Release 27 October, 2022

Realheart announces it has performed a third implantation in sheep to test the clinical version of Realheart TAH – the version that will also be used in clinical trials expected to start in 2024. 3-4 more implantations are now planned in the series.

The surgery was performed in an animal laboratory in Belgium by the same surgical team as in previous trials: Dr Dilek Gürsoy and Dr Joeri van Puyvelde, led by Professor Bart Meyns. Once again, the implantation went quickly and progress was made, including the optimal placement of the pump.

''I am very pleased to confirm that the series continues and that more implantations are now scheduled and I look forward to reporting the results once all the analyses are complete'' says Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

This disclosure contains information that Real Heart is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Scandinavian Real Heart AB’s news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.

Realheart Featured in German TV Documentary

Press Release 25 October, 2022

Realheart's artificial heart is featured in a German TV documentary about heart disease and new scientific developments that will be broadcast on ZDF tonight, 25 October, at 8.15 PM.

The documentary, entitled ''Horst Licther: Mein Herz, mein Motor'', follows a heart failure patient on the waiting list for a transplant. It also highlights the shortage of donor hearts and the need for new technology in artificial hearts.

Both Realheart's founder Dr Azad Najar and Dr Dilek Gürsoy, who is part of the company's surgical team for the ongoing animal studies, are interviewed in the programme.

''The general interest in our artificial heart is high among patients, doctors and investors alike, and this kind of media coverage further helps to raise awareness of the prevalence of heart failure today, as well as the need for better medical devices to treat patients. It's very important for us to be able to showcase our heart in this kind of context'' said Realheart CEO Ina Laura Perkins.

The documentary is 43 minutes long and the part about Realheart start at 29:20. Those unable to watch the broadcast live can view it via the following link:

https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfzeit/zdfzeit-horst-lichter-mein-herz-mein-motor-100.html  

Realheart Has Been Granted an Additional Loan From Almi

Press Release 10 October, 2022

Realheart has been granted an additional loan from Almi of SEK 7.6 million, which will aid in securing a continuos rapid product development targeting clinical trials.

”It is a realtively small sum considering our total financing need, but we always evaluate options for additional funding, in order to extend the duration for our investors capital. Not all companies qualify and we are very greatful for the support from Almi," said Realheart CEO Ina Laura Perkins.

Realheart’s CEO to Speak at the Fokus Patient Forum on October 5

Press Release 3 October, 2022

On 5 October, Realheart's CEO Ina Laura Perkins will be presenting at the ''Transplantation Forum'' organised by Fokus Patient in collaboration with Livet som Gåva and the European Society of Organ Transplantation, ESOT, at the City Conference Centre in Stockholm.

The Transplantation Forum is part of a three-day forum where healthcare professionals, patients, companies, and other interested parties can get an overview of developments and discuss current issues in the field of transplantation in Sweden and internationally.

Participants include Dr Bartley Griffith, an American surgeon who recently performed a high-profile pig heart transplant for a human.

Realheart's CEO Ina Laura Perkins has been invited to give a presentation entitled ''When organs are not enough'' in a section covering the future of organs and organ donation.

''I look forward to telling future clients, people in healthcare and patients about Realheart and all the benefits it can offer as a complement to other options in the future. An artificial heart can easily be stored and taken straight off the shelf, making it urgently available – both as a permanent solution and as a bridge between the human heart and other alternatives. The patient also does not need to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their life, as is the case after a transplant'' said Ina Laura Perkins.

The full programme is available here.

Third Implantation in Sheep Scheduled to Take Place in October

Press Release 26 September, 2022

During the first half of 2022, Realheart performed successful implantations of its total artificial heart in sheep. These implantations are part of a series of implants to test the clinical version of Realheart® TAH. The next implant has been scheduled to take place in October.

Preparations for this third implant of the clinical Realheart® TAH version are underway and the implantation will be carried out in an animal laboratory in Belgium by three experienced heart surgeons who have also performed the first two implantations: Dr Dilek Gürsoy, Dr Joeri van Puyvelde, and Professor Bart Meyns.

“We have chosen to work with the best surgeons, and I am pleased that we have been able to find a date when all three are available," said Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

The version of the TAH that is being tested is the same one that the company intends to use in human clinical trials expected to start in 2024.

Realheart Team Attends ESAO Conference in Austria

Press Release 6 September, 2022

Realheart has been invited to the annual conference of the European Society for Artificial Organs, which will take place in Krems, Austria, 6-10 September. Three of the company's engineers will present their research at the conference. CEO Ina Laura Perkins and CTO Thomas Finocchiaro will also be in attendance to make contacts and represent the company.

Soteris Andreou presents his work on developing methods for reliability testing while Joseph Bornoff at University of Bath and Faisal Zaman present their methodology for blood testing – all processes that will be used to produce the data that need to be included in applications to regulatory authorities to start clinical trials.

Joseph Bornoff and Faisal Zaman have also been awarded the 2022 yESAO Exchange Award and will receive this at the conference. yESAO Exchange Awards is a stipend for young researchers with the aim of building international networks and producing advancements in the field of research.

''Realheart is the world's first four-chamber artificial heart, so in much of the research we do and the methods we develop, we are breaking new ground. That's why we're increasingly invited to present our findings at international conferences. This time it's particularly exciting because it's some of our younger talents who get to talk about their work themselves, and receive an award for it,'' said Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart. 

Realheart’s Faisal Zaman to Present at Blood Injury Conference

Press Release 29 August, 2022

Realhearts biomedical engineer Faisal Zaman is attending a conference on blood damage in heart pumps, organised by the University of Rostock in Germany, on 1-2 September. Faisal Zaman will present the company's work on developing methods to measure blood damage in pulsating pumps.

Faisal Zaman holds a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Linköping University. He was recruited to Realheart 2021, where he among other things is responsible for the work related to blood testing in the company's blood lab at Karolinska University Hospital.

Blood testing is a central part of developing an artificial heart, as the aim is to achieve as little blood damage as possible. Among other things, they measure haemolysis, i.e. the leakage of haemoglobin from red blood cells, and here they want to achieve the lowest possible value. Faisal Zaman will present the results of these tests, the most important of which is that the Realheart® TAH haemolysis value is less than half that of the leading product on the market today.

Historically, this type of test has been designed for rotary pumps that generate a continuous flow, but Realheart® TAH, the world's first four-chamber artificial heart, is based on a completely different principle with a pulsatile blood flow. A different test methodology is then needed to ensure that the haemolysis measurement is accurate. Faisal Zaman will demonstrate how he and the rest of the team work to optimise the test rig and analyse the outcome with clinical experts.

''In developing the Realheart® TAH, we are creating a tremendous amount of new knowledge that is in high demand internationally. That's why we often get invitations like this one. We are keen to share this knowledge – and at the same time, as a company, we can update ourselves on ongoing research and complement our own knowledge in the field of blood injury," said Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart.

Interim Report 220101-220630

Press Release 19 August, 2022

Summery of Interim Report

First to Second Quarter 2022
(2022-01-01 – 2022-06-30)

• Operating income amounted to 903 789 (528 702) SEK.

• Earnings after financial items amounted to – 5 911 082 (-4 008 690) SEK.

• Earnings per share * amounted to SEK -0.18 (-0.18).

• Equity / assets ratio was 93% (83%).

Second Quarter 2022
(2022-04-01 – 2022-06-30)

• Operating income amounted to 685 380 (527 625) SEK.

• Earnings after financial items amounted to – 3 209 011 (-2 229 708) SEK.

• Earnings per share * amounted to SEK – 0.10 (-0.10).

* Earnings per share: Earnings for the period divided by 33 183 461.

** Equity ratio: Equity divided by total capital.

Amounts in parentheses refer to the corresponding period last year.

Significant Events During the Second Quarter of the Year

• At the beginning of April, Realheart starts collaborations with researchers with expert knowledge about heart pumps, at KTH in Stockholm. The collaborations add to the company additional expertise in the areas of blood testing and evaluation of the control unit to the clinical version of Realheart® TAH, as well as in the company's research on new products.

• In mid-April, the clinical version will be announced of Realheart's artificial heart – the one to be used by human patients – is almost finished and will now be tested in a serie of animal experiments. Six surgeries are booked, with the first operation already in mid-May.

• At the end of April, Realheart begins the recruitment of a new Chief Financial Officer to take over when the current CFO Andreas Hultdin ends July 31.

• Improved control unit for clinical studies provides six months delay, the company announced at the end of April.

The delay is due to the decision of giving the patients in the first clinical study the chance to be equipped with the final version of the control unit – a kind of remote control – instead of a simpler version as previously thought.

• On May 1, a layout version of the annual report for 2021, is released, including reportage with Dr Dilek Gürsoy.

• May also begins with Realheart being granted additional funding for two US patents until 2037, including one that protects the principle behind the four-chamber heart in its entirety.

• During the second week of May, the recruitment of a Lead

Systems Engineer is completed. Bruce Wedding from Texas,comes recently from a role as a senior software engineer at LivaNova, PLC.

• In mid-May, the company announces that the first try of clinical implantation is postponed due to the change of animals.

• One of the last events in May is that Realheart and KTH receives a grant of SEK 4 million from Vinnova to jointly develop a Swedish hybrid simulator that should enable advanced testing of the control algorithm which governs Realheart's artificial heart.

• May also ends with Realheart's CEO Ina Laura Perkins presenting Realheart® TAH blood results at the Internatio- nal EUMS-ISMCS Conference in Hanover.

• In connection with the ISMCS conference it is announced that Ina Laura Perkins has been elected to the Board of International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support (ISMCS).

• The first event in June is that the first implan- tation with the clinical version is performed on animals. Surgically, the experiment is very successful and the pump performs optimally. The surgical team implants the pump in only 2 hours and 10 minutes – a key factor in the animal's survival.

Significant Events After the End of the Period

• July begins with the second successful implantation of the clinical version in animals. The animal survives for 24 hours, which is an important milestone for the company.

Revenue and Result

Scandinavian Real Heart is currently working with research and development and currently has no sales of any products. The turnover reported for the period consists of grants received. Research and development costs of Realheart® TAH were capitalized during Q2 with 8.2 million. During the period, write-downs of capitalized costs for research and development were made by 0 million.

The item other external costs of 9.6 million consists of costs for purchased services of 6.3 million and various other costs of SEK 3.3 million. Of these costs, 6.6 million has been capitalized.

Financial Position

Following the rights issue completed in 2021, the Company is now in a strong liquidity position with approx. SEK 24 million in liquid funds. Together with the grant of SEK 25.7 million that we have been granted from the EIC and which we will receive in 2022/2023, we have funding that will last into quarter 2, 2023.

In order to solve the Company's longer-term financing needs, Realheart works continuously to evaluate alternatives for further capitalization of the Company. One possibility is to be able to finance the Company in the future via equity from financially strong additional owners as well as from other sources such as EU support and non-profit foundations.

CEO Ina Laura Perkins has the word

In June, we started our animal studies with the clinical version of Realheart® TAH! For this series, we have a strengthened surgical team as well as new expertise in aftercare and an enhanced aftercare protocol. A heart replacement is among the largest surgical procedures that can be performed, and while a human patient is kept sedated for the first critical day, a sheep must be awakened shortly afterwards, making aftercare particularly complex. There are many things we want to confirm during each operation – from ease of use from the surgeons' perspective to a stable and controlled transition from the heart-lung machine. The smooth implantation of the Realheart® TAH resulted in a relatively short total time on the heart-lung machine – something that is of great importance for survival and really impressed everyone involved. The performance of the pump also impressed. Now we continue with high expectations for future operations.

We have also started our virtual study this spring. Using three-dimensional digital replicas of real heart patients, we can test how our product fits in different bodies, among other things. We have already performed implantations on ten virtual patients and our artificial heart fit all eight male patients, but not the two female ones. The study will continue with at least twenty more patients and can be further expanded, if we need more data. Through these studies, we are collecting anatomical measurements to define the patient population for the application to start clinical trials, but also for our other product MiniHeart, which is being developed for women and other patients with smaller body sizes.

At the same time, we are continuing to work on our blood tests, a key part of the development process, as we want to move away from the blood-related side effects that have so far limited the use of artificial hearts. In addition, to enter clinical trials, it is a requirement to show that haemolysis – the leakage of haemoglobin from red blood cells – is at least as low as in a product in clinical use. We are comparing with SynCardia, the most widely used artificial heart on the market, and in tests with the previous version of Realheart we got very good results that were far below SynCardia's. Soon we will start tests with our clinical version, where we hope to get even lower.

Many people follow our work with interest and anticipation, and it was against this background that the European Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit (EUMS) and the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support (ISMCS) asked me to present our blood results at their joint conference in Hannover. While there, I received a lot of feedback from physicians who are frustrated by the lack of a good TAH. International physicians are increasing amongst our social media followers, and since that conference we have received an offer of help in future clinical trials from physicians in the US.

We recently hosted an international conference ourselves to disseminate the research results generated within the company and among our partners. The dream would be to welcome the ISMCS conference to Sweden sometime in the future, now that I have been elected to the board, and described as ''a bridge between research and industry''!

What we do is ground-breaking, and our collective expertise continues to grow. Oliver Voigt, who started working with us as a consultant last year, has now taken a seat on our board. He was previously General Manager of SynCardia in Europe and led their expansion from two to 26 countries. Greater knowledge of marketing and selling artificial hearts is not to be found anywhere in the world. The Board has also gained two additional new members with valuable experience: Patrick Schnegelsberg, who among other things, has been CEO of medtech and biotech start-ups and has led ten heart-related products to market approval; and Solveig Bergström, who has led companies from start-up to establishment of international subsidiaries, acquisitions and sales for 30 years.

In addition, we are supported by seven cardiac surgeons, who help us in various ways to drive the project forward: Henrik Ahn, Robert Dowling, and Ulf Kjellman, who contribute to the planning and preparations towards clinical trials; Jan Schmitto, who has given us access to patients for the virtual study: and Dilek Gürsoy, Bart Meyns and Joeri van Puyvelde, who are at the operating table in our animal studies. Having access to their expertise is invaluable, and the fact that they believe so strongly in our product gives us extra confidence.

Ina Laura Perkins
CEO, Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Swedish innovation power has given the world medical technology inventions such as the heart and lung machine, the pacemaker and the dialysis machine. The next big innovation is Realheart's artificial heart. A Swedish patented innovation that will save the lives of heart failure patients. Every year, 3,500 people die of heart failure in Sweden alone. Today, the only rescue is a heart transplant, but the number of donated hearts is only enough for 2% of those in need.

The start-up of the company was initiated by the doctor Azad Najar in 1999 when he started sketching an artificial heart that completely mimics the biological. In 2007, Azad co-founded Scandinavian Real Heart with two partners. The original idea behind Realheart® TAH is based on flow analyzes made at KTH 2002-2005 and is based on constructing an artificial heart that mimics the biological. By imitating its basic principle, a pressure and flow is created that reduces the risk of blood clots and provides an energy-efficient blood flow. These factors are important to give the patient a good quality of life. The development of the product has progressed strongly over the years. Blood circulation, pump function, pressure, and pulse generation have been verified in ethically approved animal experiments. Today, research and development takes place in close collaboration with world-leading heart surgeons, researchers and engineers.

Patent Protection

Realheart has granted patents in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and India that protect the original pump principle in TAH. This patent also provides protection for future products: RealVAD® and PulsePump®.

Patent protection is also available on the latest version of Realheart® TAH in Sweden, USA, UK, Australia and Japan. The patent application for it has also been filed for Germany and Canada. The patents provide protection in the markets that are largest and most important for artificial hearts right now, with the exception of China and India which are considered important emerging markets. In addition to the patent protection described above, Realheart has also approved patents in Sweden, the USA and the United Kingdom for the future Sternal prosthesis product. The application is also submitted in Germany and France. In 2018, a new connection was designed for a simple and secure connection between Realheart® TAH and the body's circulatory system. The patent application for this has also been filed.

Finally, the patent application has been filed in two parts for the use of pressure sensors for the automatic control. Given the existing patents together with the new patent applications, the Board believes that the company has a strong patent situation and strong intellectual property protection.

Mission and Goal

Realheart's mission is to use medical technology solutions to save as many heart failure patients as possible and to create the best conditions for a life-affirming continuation of life. The company's overall goal is for the artificial heart to be commercialized and become a full-fledged treatment alternative for patients with heart failure. The heart should have a better function than the solutions that are on the market today. It should be possible to use both as a bridge to transplantation and as final therapy.

The Stock

Scandinavian Real Heart AB was listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in December 2021. Nasdaq First North GM is a registered SME marketplace for growth companies that enables Nordic and international entrepreneurs to gain access to growth capital to develop and expand their operations. As of December 31, 2021, the number of shares in Scandinavian Real Heart was 33,183,461.

Largest Shareholder in the Company per 2022-06-30

Shareholders                                                    Numbers of Shares               Votes (%)              Capital (%)

Najar Medical & Invention AB                                    3 262 635                            9,83                        9,83

Eskilstunahem Fastighets AB                                   1 650 006                             4,97                        4,97

Försäkrings AB Avanza                                             1 471 845                            4,44                         4,44

Ålandsbanken ABP (finland) Swedish branch            852 181                              2,57                         2,57

Najar Bilend                                                               516 263                               1,56                        1,56

Forslund Lars                                                             489 474                              1,48                         1,48

Nordnet Pensionsförsäkring AB                                 464 334                              1,40                         1,40

Smartgroup Holding AB                                             417 316                              1,26                          1,26

Staffan Ewerth                                                           350 000                              1,05                           1,05

Gilbert Raux                                                              306 500                               0,92                           0,92

Others                                                                     23 402 907                           70,52                         70,52

Total                                                                       33 183 461                          100,00                        100,00

Principles for the Preparation of the Interim Report

The interim report has been prepared in accordance with the Annual Accounts Act and with the application of general advice, recommendations and statements from the Swedish Accounting Standards Board.

Audit Review

The interim report has not been reviewed by the Company's auditor.

Upcoming Financial Reports

Interim Report Q3, 2022 2022-11-18

Year-end Report, 2022 2023-02-24

Submission of Interim Report

Västerås, August 19, 2022

The Board

Scandinavian Real Heart AB

For Further Information, Please Contact

Ina Laura Perkins

CEO Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Phone: +46 70 406 49 21
E-mail: inalaura.perkins@realheart.se

Jonas Caspari Bark

CFO Scandinavian Real Heart AB

Mobile +46 70 643 88 61
E-post: jonas.bark@realheart.se

Certified Adviser: Svensk Kapitalmarknadsgranskning AB, Phone: +46 11 32 30 732, email: ca@skmg.se

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Link to archive for financial reports: https://realheart.se/sv/investerare/arkiv/

Realheart Successfully Completes Second Animal Implant of its Total Artificial Heart

Press Release, 8 July 2022

On July 6th, Scandinavian Realheart’s Total Artificial Heart (TAH) was successfully implanted in a sheep for the second time. This follows the first successful implantation of the Company’s TAH reported on June 1st. Both implantations were part of an ongoing animal study designed to assess the performance of the clinical version of Realheart® TAH before entering human clinical trials, expected to start in 2024.

The procedure was performed in Belgium by Drs. Dilek Gürsoy, Joeri van Puyvelde, and Professor Bart Meyns, three experienced cardiac surgeons. Overall, the surgery was rapid and went well. A key milestone of survival over 24 hours has been reached. On the second day following the implant, the animal moved a lot, dislocating some of the life support equipment and the decision was taken to end the study. Measures have been taken to avoid recurrence.

This time the implantation was performed on a slightly smaller sheep than the previous one. Thanks to the smaller pump in Realheart’s clinical TAH version, the device could still be implanted successfully. "The pump is really good, I really believe in it," commented heart surgeon Dr. Dilek Gürsoy after the implantation.

The Company plans to achieve longer survival times in future sheep studies. The next surgery is planned for early September 2022.

This disclosure contains information that Real Heart is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Scandinavian Real Heart AB’s news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.