** Shares of medtech company TransMedics Group TMDX.O fall
13.82% to $62.40 premarket
** Scorpion Capital says it has taken a short position on
the company
** Says will shortly file a Citizen Petition with the FDA
requesting suspension of the premarket approval of TransMedics
Organ Care System, in conjunction with a public letter to
members of Congress probing abuses in the US organ transplant
system
** TMDX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment
** Stock fell ~21% last year
(Reporting by Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru)
((Sriparna.Roy@thomsonreuters.com;))