Neovasc Inc. reports exercise of 4.6 million warrants for net proceeds of
$1.4 million

- Warrants were Issued as Part of April 2009 financing -

TSX Venture Exchange: NVC

VANCOUVER, April 26 /CNW/ - Neovasc Inc. (TSXV: NVC), today announced that 4,635,114 warrants, issued as part of the Company's April 2009 financing, have been exercised. In that financing, Neovasc issued units that included 4,761,902 whole warrants entitling the holders to purchase one common share of Neovasc at a price of $0.30 for a period of up to 12 months after the close of the financing. Participants in this financing included members of the Frost Group LLC and company management.

Exercise of the 4,635,114 warrants has resulted in proceeds of $1,390,534 to Neovasc. 97% of the total available warrants from the April 2009 financing have been exercised by their holders. The remaining 126,788 warrants from the financing expired on April 23, 2010.

"We appreciate the continued confidence of our shareholders in Neovasc," said Alexei Marko, chief executive officer of Neovasc. "The exercise of these warrants provides additional resources to help ensure we can continue to deliver on our focused growth strategy to build Neovasc's biological tissue business, to effectively commercialize our Neovasc Reducer(TM) product for refractory angina, and to advance other promising products in our pipeline."

About Neovasc Inc.

Neovasc Inc. is a new specialty vascular device company that develops, manufactures and markets medical devices for the rapidly growing vascular and surgical marketplace. The company's current products include the Neovasc Reducer(TM), a novel product in development to treat refractory angina, as well as a line of advanced biological tissue technologies that are used to enhance surgical outcomes and as key components in a variety of third-party medical products such as artificial heart valves. For more information, visit: www.neovasc.com.

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For further information: Corporate contact: Neovasc Inc., Chris Clark, [phone]; U.S. media & investor contact: GendeLLindheim BioCom Partners, Barbara Lindheim, [phone]