Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today that a judge in the Eastern District Court of Virginia last week ruled in Medtronic s favor in a patent case brought by W.L Gore & Associates, Inc.
Covidien announced the launch of its 1 in 1,000 campaign to help educate women about the risk of pregnancy-related blood clots, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the developed world. The announcement was made at the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of Women s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
With the University of Pittsburgh s development of a cell-free, biodegradable artery graft comes a potentially transformative change in coronary artery bypass surgeries: Within 90 days after surgery, the patient will have a regenerated artery with no trace of synthetic graft materials left in the body.
There has been a three-fold increase in the number of patients receiving acute dialysis because of injury after cardiac and vascular surgeries since 1995, states a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Acute kidney injury appears to be an increasing problem in cardiac and vascular surgeries, researchers found. Severe cases marked by need for acute dialysis after major elective surgery -- although rare -- rose year over year from a rate of 0.2% in 1995 to 0.6% in 2009, Amit X. Garg, MD, PhD, of Western University in London, Ontario, and colleagues reported.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently selected an investigational stent graft for endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms involving branch vessel. The device would be used inan early feasibility pilot programme.
Regulatory Agency Selects Investigational Medical Device for Endovascular Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Involving Branch Vessel for Early Feasibility Pilot Program
The UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care’s Aortic Disease Management team is the first in the USA to use a new FDA-approved device to successfully treat a complex abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
The Sandwich Technique, developed to overcome current anatomical and device constraints, could expand the limits of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in a safe, easy to perform, and cost-effective manner, Armando Lobato, ICVE, Sao Paulo Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Institute, Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil, told delegates at the Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA.
MAQUET Cardiovascular, LLC announced today that it has received CE mark for its INTERGARD SYNERGY vascular graft. This graft represents the next generation in antimicrobial grafts combining the well-known antimicrobial properties of silver acetate and triclosan. The INTERGARD SYNERGY graft will be commercially available immediately within countries that recognize the CE mark.
Avinger has announced that it has successfully completed enrolment in its CONNECT II global clinical trial. A study focused on treatment of peripheral artery disease. CONNECT II is a prospective, multicentre, non-randomised global clinical study that evaluated 100 peripheral artery disease patients with femoropopliteal chronic total occlusion lesions at 15 hospital and clinic sites, including two in the European Union.
Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) (Nasdaq: CSII), shared 12-month data from the COMPLIANCE 360 study of severely calcified above-the-knee lesions at the New Cardiovascular Horizons Annual Conference on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Dr. Barry Weinstock, Interventional Cardiologist, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Winter Park, Fla., presented data demonstrating positive outcomes and cost comparisons to the widely used percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).
Heart surgery patients can considerably reduce their risk of developing post-operative acute renal failure by taking aspirin for five days before undergoing surgery.
At two years, mechanochemical ablation (MOCA) is as efficacious as current endothermal techniques without the need of tumescent anaesthesia and is more effective than reported results of foam sclerotherapy of the great saphenous vein. Steve Elias, who presented the first-in-man two-year results with the technique at the Vascular Annual Meeting (Washington DC, USA,7–9 June 2012), said that MOCA is another alternative modality for most incompetent great and small saphenous veins.
Vascular News has heard from Cook Medical that on Wednesday 6 June, it received the CE mark for the world’s first off-the-shelf thoracoabdominal stent graft, the Zenith t-Branch Thoracoabdominal Endovascular Graft.
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