Huntleigh has launched the Dopplex ankle and toe pressure (ATP) kit. This comprises the company’s DMX Doppler, probes and accessories to aid the vascular, diabetic or lymphatic specialist with the assessment of arterial disease and neuropathy.
Huntleigh has launched the Dopplex DMX digital vascular Doppler. According to a company release, this Doppler combines audio clarity and a visual representation of waveforms with high performance probe sensitivity.
Merit Medical Systems has purchased the HeRO graft device and related assets from CryoLife.
The Lutonix 035 drug-coated balloon (DCB) percutaneous transluminal angioplasty catheter (Bard) has been featured in a series of podium and special session presentations during the Leipzig International Course (LINC), Leipzig, Germany. According to a Bard release, these presentations have demonstrated continued, confirmatory Lutonix DCB clinical data.
Medtronic and Sanford Health announced on 9 February 2016 the first patient enrolled in a clinical study using the Medtronic Valiant thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft for minimally invasive repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.
At the 2016 Leipzig Interventional Course meeting (LINC; 26–29 January, Leipzig, Germany), Michael R. Jaff, Boston, USA, discussed the challenges facing intervention for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and when using an interventional approach may be preferable.
ArtVentive Medical has announced enrolment in the ongoing OCCLUDE post-market surveillance study. This study aims to further the use of the EOS endoluminal occlusion system for the treatment of venous and arterial cases in which precise placement and immediate, efficient vessel embolisation are paramount.
Cook Medical has initiated a voluntary recall of 360 specific lots of single lumen central venous catheters and pressure monitoring sets and trays due to catheter tip fracture and/or separation.
Jens Ricke, professor of Radiology at the University of Magdeburg, has announced that the palliative cohort of the pan-European SORAMIC study he co-directs with Peter Malfertheiner has reached its enrolment target of 420 patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
Two studies presented at The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (6–10 February 2016, Hollywood, USA) found that there was inadequate information from manufacturers about many of their protective garments. This means that informed decisions are hard to make regarding the radiation protection offered by these garments.
Frostbite injuries are seen at an increasing rate, and there is an increasing body of evidence supporting the use of thrombolytic therapy for its management, Ivan Babin and colleagues from Upstate Medical University, State University of New York, USA, told delegates at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET, 6–10 February, Hollywood, USA).
Acute mesenteric ischaemia can be successfully treated with endovascular therapy such as balloon angioplasty, according to research from the University of Eastern Finland.
The course, designed to provide training to interventionalists on the transradial approach, was held in Merit’s new state-of-the-art training facility in its European headquarters in Maastricht, the Netherlands. It took place on 25 and 26 February. The ThinkRadial programme serves to educate and train interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons around the world about using the radial artery, as an alternative to the femoral artery, to gain access for interventional procedures.
Philips’ intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) technology holds benefits for the diagnosis of iliofemoral venous obstruction, in comparison to conventional contrast-enhanced X-ray imaging, according to a clinical trial.
The addition of SIR-Spheres (Sirtex) to chemotherapy has been shown to significantly prolong progression-free survival in the liver among patients with non-resectable liver-dominant or liver-only colorectal cancer in the SIRFLOX study. These results have been published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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