The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) have signed an affiliation agreement in which the nursing association will be managed from the Chicago, USA-based SVS office.
SoundBite Medical Solutions has performed its first-in-human procedure using shockwave energy to successfully and safely cross a chronic total occlusion (CTO). The 72-year-old male patient had bilateral superficial femoral artery occlusions (both over 20cm in length) in the legs, leading to incapacitating claudication and unfavourable quality of life. Andrew Benko, performed the minimally invasive procedure using a .018” guidewire (ShockWire) that delivered high energy shockwaves into the patient’s arteries to completely cross both occlusions including several calcified nodules and re-establish blood flow.
Lombard Medical and MicroPort Scientific Corporation have announced a strategic partnership and a significant infusion of capital into Lombard Medical by MicroPort. According to a company press release, this partnership will allow Lombard Medical to accelerate commercialisation in key global markets with its two key products: Aorfix, “the only stent graft to hold global approvals to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms with aortic neck angles up to 90 degrees”, and Altura, a “highly innovative stent graft that offers a simple and predictable treatment option for standard abdominal aortic aneurysm anatomy”.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted QT Vascular full Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval to begin enrolling patients in the pivotal study of its Chocolate Touch drug-coated balloon. This follows the FDA’s granting of conditional IDE approval in September 2016.
Silk Road Medical data presented at the VEITH Symposium have found comparable results for transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA), among other positive conclusions.
Essential Medical has announced the start of the Manta vascular closure device US pivotal trial.
The first patient has been enrolled in Daiichi Sankyo’s EMIT-AF/VTE (Edoxaban Management in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures) study. This registry will collect real-world clinical data on the use of once-daily edoxaban (Lixiana) with regard to diagnostic and interventional procedures in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) or venous thromboembolism.
The first US patient has been enrolled in Dextera Surgical’s MicroCutter Assisted Thoracic Surgery Hemostasis (MATCH) registry, a prospective, open-label, multicentre registry enrolling up to 120 patients undergoing lung resections in which surgical stapling is required.
Medtronic has received CE mark for its Endurant II/IIs stent graft system to treat abdominal aortic aneurysm patients using a ChEVAR procedure—a parallel graft chimney technique that uses commercially available balloon expandable covered stents combined with a standard aortic stent graft.
A new vascular medicine registry will be launched in early 2017 by the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM).
Lombard Medical has announced positive long-term data providing confirmation of sustained performance for its Aorfix endovascular stent graft system in the most challenging anatomies.
Teleflex is to acquire Vascular Solutions in a transaction valued at approximately US$1 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Teleflex will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Vascular Solutions common stock for US$56 per share, in cash.
In November 2016, Bentley launched its BeGraft aortic stent graft system: a balloon expandable, large diameter covered stent with sizes ranging from 12mm to 24mm available in lengths of 19mm to 59mm.
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that surgeons in England operate significantly less often on aortic aneurysms in the population than US surgeons, and that the English death rate for the condition is over twice that in the USA.
“Systematic scrutiny” of the large patient cohort in the PERICLES registry has resulted in a new classification describing three distinct patterns of chimney endovascular aneurysm repair (chEVAR) gutter-related endoleaks and technical modifications for their treatment, according to an article published in the Journal of Endovascular Therapy.
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