Philips has announced that it has completed the acquisition of The Spectranetics Corporation, a US-based global leader in vascular intervention and lead management solutions. Spectranetics’ financial results will be consolidated as part of Philips’ Image-Guided Therapy business group as of 9 August 2017.
Royal Philips and The Spectranetics Corporation announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Pursuant to the agreement, Philips will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Spectranetics for US$38.50 per share, to be paid in cash upon completion.
Philips has announced the relaunch of the Pioneer Plus catheter, described as the only re-entry device with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) capabilities and needle deployment designed to assist arterial vessel intervention.
Interventional radiologists at the Emory Johns Creek Hospitals (EJCH), Johns Creek, USA, are using radiofrequency ablation to reduce pain for cancer patients.
Metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated first-line with SIR-spheres Y-90 resin microspheres more likely to become candidates for potentially curative liver surgery, the REsect study shows.
Sirtex has announced the presentation of the SIRFLOX/FOXFIRE Global right-side survival data in metastatic colorectal cancer at the 19th European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGIC) in Barcelona, Spain.
Siemens Healthineers has received the CE mark for the 7 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) scanner Magnetom Terra, making it the first-ever ultra-high-field MR scanner to be approved for clinical use, a press release from the company says.
According to a new study published online in the journal Radiology, when ultrasound-guided percutaneous irrigation is performed to treat shoulder calcification, the choice of using either one needle or two should be tailored to the type of calcification.
The Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO and BTG have announced their 2017 Interventional interventional oncology /immuno-oncology research grant recipients.
The Society of Interventional Radiology and its Women in Interventional Radiology section have issued a position statement to support interventional radiologists who choose to become parents. The statement was published in the July issue of SIR’s Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR).
The FOXFIRE, SIRFLOX and FOXFIRE Global randomised studies evaluated the efficacy of combining first-line chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer with selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT) using yttrium-90 resin microspheres (SIR-Spheres, Sirtex) in patients with liver metastases. The combined FOXFIRE analysis comprises data from the SIRFLOX study, first presented in 2015, and data from two new studies – FOXFIRE and FOXFIRE Global.
SIRveNIB is an investigator-led Asia Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Study to be presented on 4 June 2017 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, USA.
Spectranetics has announced receipt of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval of the Stellarex drug-coated balloon (DCB), designed to restore and maintain blood flow to the superficial femoral and popliteal arteries in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).
The Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) has announced new officers and a Board of Directors.
The treatment can help restore fertility in women with uterine fibroids, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
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