Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the completion of patient enrollment in its iliac stent clinical study series. The series is composed of two prospective, multinational, multicenter studies - VISIBILITY Iliac and DURABILITY Iliac.
El uso de aspirina a largo plazo podría aumentar ligeramente el riesgo de desarrollar degeneración macular relacionada con la edad, una importante causa de ceguera entre las personas mayores, sugiere un estudio reciente.
Lombard Medical Technologies announced on 15 February 2013 that Aorfix has been approved for commercial sale in the USA by the FDA. Aorfix is the company’s flexible stent graft for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Data from the US PYTHAGORAS trial of Aorfix, has demonstrated that Aorfix can successfully treat a larger patient population than competing devices, including both standard and difficult to treat cases of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Los diabéticos que se someten a una angioplastia coronaria primaria registran menos revascularizaciones del vaso tratado cuando se utilizan stents liberadores de fármacos (DES, por su sigla en inglés) en lugar de stents metálicos (BMS, por su sigla en inglés)
Konstantinos P Donas, Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Münster University Hospital and St Franziskus Hospital, Münster, Germany, and colleagues have found that the use of chimney and/or periscope endografts for pararenal aortic pathologies achieves and maintains successful exclusion of aneurysms in 90% of the cases at 24 months of radiological follow-up.
At the LINC congress (Leipzig, Germany, 23–26 January), Dierk Scheinert, Park Hospital Leipzig, Germany, presented the details of a new randomised controlled trial that will evaluate a drug-eluting stent vs. paclitaxel-eluting balloons for the treatment of symptomatic femoropopliteal artery disease.
With more than 100 patients enrolled,Cook Medical announced on 5 February 2013 it has exceeded 50% enrolment in the Tibiopedal Access for Crossing of Infrainguinal Artery Occlusions trial. The first-of-its-kind, prospective, multicentre study is evaluating the retrograde tibiopedal vascular access technique for treating critical limb ischaemia.
Medtronic has announced the CE mark and international launch of its Complete SE self-expanding vascular stent for use in the lower extremities, specifically, the superficial femoral arteries and proximal popliteal arteries.
Covidien has announced CE mark approval for its EverFlex Self-Expanding Peripheral Stent with Entrust Delivery System.
On 5 February 2013, IDEV Technologies announced the publication of positive clinical outcomes for the Supera peripheral stent system in the Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC) Cardiovascular Interventions. The publication, “Treatment of Complex Atherosclerotic Popliteal Artery Disease with a New Self-Expanding Interwoven Nitinol Stent: 12-Month Results of the Leipzig Supera Popliteal Registry,” was authored by Dierk Scheinert and colleagues from Park Krankenhaus Hospital in Leipzig, Germany.
Daiichi Sankyo Europe announced the enrolment of the first patient into the PREFER in VTE (Prevention of thromboembolic events – European registry in venous thromboembolism) study on 6 February 2013. PREFER in VTE is the first patient registry to gather comprehensive data on the quality of life and treatment satisfaction of patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE). It will also provide detailed insights into the process of patient management in the acute treatment phase, as well as in the prevention of repeat thromboembolic events. In addition, the PREFER in VTE registry will investigate the economic burden of venous thromboembolism treatment.
Medtronic has announced completion of enrolment in IN.PACT SFA II, the US arm of its clinical study for the IN.PACT Admiral drug-eluting balloon as a treatment for peripheral arterial disease in the superficial femoral and proximal popliteal arteries.
The results of PEARL (Registry of AngioJet use in the peripheral vascular system), a phase II multicentre registry, led by Robert Lookstein, chief of interventional radiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA, have suggested that rheolytic pharmacomechanical thrombectomy using combination therapy is fast and effective and can reduce treatment time for deep vein thrombosis from more than two days to less than 24 hours according to data presented at the Annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).
Volcano announced on 1 February 2013 it has a new interactive educational tool to facilitate learning about IVUS-guided interventional procedures with its new Visions PV .035 Digital IVUS catheter. The new Aortic IVUS App for iPad, available on the Apple App Store, provides case examples with interactive education on the procedural workflow and image interpretation, and is intended for healthcare professionals involved in endovascular aortic procedures.
Treating abdominal aortic aneurysm patients in an outpatient setting is feasible, with 0% mortality in a series conducted in Switzerland, according to data presented at the Controversies & Updates in Vascular Surgery symposium (17–19 January 2013) in Paris, France. Mario Lachat, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, told delegates that this type of procedure saves hospital costs and can be used in up to 40% of EVAR patients.
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