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Angeion Corporation      

Angeion Corporation
350 Oak Grove Parkway
St. Paul, MN 55127 USA
Telephone: (651) 484-4874
Facsimile: (651) 484-4826

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Angeion Corporation Launches New TRUcal™ from New Leaf®
New System Provides Your True Daily Caloric Requirements
with Added Bluetooth® Wireless Connectivity

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (June 21, 2010) — Angeion Corporation (NASDAQ: ANGN) announced that it has launched its new TRUcal™ resting metabolic rate system. Part of its New Leaf® product line, TRUcal includes an analyzer that gently measures one’s breath for oxygen and carbon dioxide which gives consumers their true individualized daily calories their body requires. The TRUcal™ system also includes a compact netbook with Bluetooth® technology, adding the benefit of wireless connectivity.

“Development of the enhanced TRUcal system reflects marketplace demand for our New Leaf line of products and services that promote a healthy lifestyle,” said Rodney A. Young, President and Chief Executive Officer of Angeion. “An individual’s resting metabolic rate is key to losing weight and maintaining a healthy body, as well as achieving personal fitness goals. TRUcal scientifically captures the metabolic information to empower consumers to take more responsibility for their own health, and with wireless connectivity, TRUcal is very easy to use.”

New Leaf’s enhanced TRUcal system is simple and user friendly; it is designed for corporate wellness programs, weight loss franchises, commercial fitness sites, nutritionists and dieticians.

The system also integrates with New Leaf’s eNewLeaf.com online management tool that enables monitoring, tracking and trending of a consumer’s daily progress toward weight management and fitness. Additionally, ENERGYsmart™, New Leaf’s online nutrition, meal planning and tracking tool can be utilized to ensure consumers’ eating habits are healthy and tailored to their resting metabolic rate.

TRUcal combines 30 years of proven clinical, fitness and sports medicine diagnostic testing experience to produce accurate resting metabolic measurement every time, without guesswork. With detailed calorie-burning information in hand, fitness professionals can create an optimal nutrition and fitness plan to help their clients achieve real results and true health. To learn more please visit our website at www.newleaffitness.com or contact the company at 1-888-826-2751.

About Angeion Corporation
Founded in 1986, Angeion Corporation acquired Medical Graphics Corporation in December 1999. Medical Graphics develops, manufactures and markets non-invasive cardiorespiratory diagnostic systems that are sold under the MedGraphics (www.medgraphics.com) and New Leaf (www.newleaffitness.com) brand and trade names. These cardiorespiratory diagnostic systems have a wide range of applications in health care as well as health and fitness. The Company’s products are sold internationally through distributors and in the United States through a direct sales force that targets heart and lung specialists located in hospitals, university-based medical centers, medical clinics and physicians’ offices, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, clinical research organizations, health and fitness clubs, personal training studios, and other exercise facilities. For more information about Angeion, visit www.angeion.com.

The discussion above contains forward-looking statements about Angeion’s future financial results and business prospects that by their nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties.  You can identify these statements by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “will,” “target,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance or business plans or prospects.  Our actual results may differ materially depending on a variety of factors including: (1) national and worldwide economic and capital market conditions; (2) continuing cost-containment efforts in our hospital, clinics, and office market; (3) our ability to successfully operate our business, including our ability to develop, improve, and update our cardiorespiratory diagnostic products and successfully sell these products under the MedGraphics and New Leaf brand names into existing and new markets; (4) our ability to maintain our cost structure at a level that is appropriate to our near to mid-term revenue expectations and that will enable us to increase revenues and profitability as opportunities develop; (5) our ability to achieve constant margins for our products and consistent and predictable operating expenses in light of variable revenues from our clinical research customers; (6) our ability to effectively manufacture and ship products in required quantities to meet customer demands; (7) our ability to expand our international revenue through our distribution partners and our Milan, Italy representative branch office; (8) our ability to successfully defend ourselves from product liability claims related to our cardiorespiratory diagnostic products and claims associated with our prior cardiac stimulation products; (9) our ability to defend our intellectual property; (10) our ability to develop and maintain an effective system of internal controls and procedures and disclosure controls and procedures; and (11) our dependence on third-party vendors.  Additional information with respect to the risks and uncertainties faced by the Company may be found in, and the above discussion is qualified in its entirety by, the other risk factors that are described from time to time in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2009.

Contact:           William J. Kullback, SVP & Chief Financial Officer, (651) 766-3492
                        Tim Quinn, SVP Global Sales and Services, (651) 766-3317

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