Medtronic has announced a financial investment in Arsenal AAA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arsenal Medical. In return, Medtronic has received an option to acquire Arsenal AAA after the company achieves certain milestones. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Vascular Flow Technologies has announced a new observational registry for Spiral Flow arteriovenous (AV) grafts in haemodialysis access that will be conducted by the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO) as part of their ongoing Vascular Quality Initiative. The inititative is designed to improve vascular health care and provides an opportunity for individual providers, hospitals, and regional quality improvement groups to collect and analyse clinical data in an effort to improve patient care.
Updates from the Gore Global Registry for Endovascular Aortic Treatment (GREAT) will be presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting (17–20 June, Chicago, USA). To date, more than 3,000 patients have been enrolled in GREAT, the largest real world endovascular registry which is actively monitored and audited to ensure data reported is accurate.
Terumo Interventional Systems had introduced the Misago RX self-expanding peripheral stent to the US market at the 2015 Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting (SVS; 17–20 June, Chicago, USA).
Vascular Solutions has launched two new versions of its Turnpike catheters for use in complex coronary and peripheral interventions. The original version of Turnpike was introduced in January 2015, and now Vascular Solutions has added the Turnpike Spiral and Turnpike Gold versions to the product line.
Selected for nearly one of every two endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs globally, the Endurant AAA stent graft system from Medtronic maintained durable, consistent and proven outcomes through five years of follow-up in the company’s US clinical study of the implantable medical device, according to new clinical data presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Annual Meeting (17–20 June, Chicago, USA).
The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a transitional pass-through payment for Surgical Specialties’ BioSentry track sealant system under the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system. This important approval removes a potential barrier to patient access to this new medical device, which offers the potential to improve outcomes for patients undergoing a percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy.
Thirty-day results from the EVAS FORWARD-IDE study show 100% procedural technical success with few device-related serious adverse events with the Nellix EndoVascular Aneurysm Sealing (EVAS; Endologix) in abdominal aortic aneurysm patients, and a 6% incidence of any endoleak on the one-month computed tomography angiographic (CTA) scan. Data from the investigational device exemption investigation were presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA.
Spectranetics has received US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the AngioSculpt percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) scoring balloon catheter in 7mm and 8mm diameter balloon sizes, designed to treat the narrowing of the native or synthetic fistula.
Veryan Medical has announced that the first subject has been enrolled in its MIMICS-2 study at Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg in Bad Krozingen, Germany, by the European principal investigator, Thomas Zeller.
The first clinical cases using Lombard Medical’s new Aorfix Plus endovascular stent graft have been successfully completed.
Jan Heyligers and Patrick Vriens, Tilburg, The Netherlands, write about a technique using the great saphenous vein for the reconstruction of an infected aorta. The technique, defined as a “see one, do one” procedure, was presented at the Charing Cross Symposium in April.
The widely varying progressions of cancer require comprehensive diagnostics, an early check of treatment, and the exchange of information with colleagues. Siemens says that its new version of the diagnostics software syngo.via supports the treating physician in making decisions regarding treatment in oncology through a comprehensive portfolio of applications across imaging systems, treatments, and disciplines.
Hansen Medical has announced it will exhibit its Magellan Robotic System at the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) Scientific Meeting 24–27 June at the FIBES II New Conference Centre in Seville, Spain.
While there is a trend towards using smaller sized particles to obtain better results with embolization, clinical and research experts at the recently held Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST EU; 24–27 June, Seville, Spain) agreed that there appeared to be a lower size limit, <100µm, below which drug-eluting beads did not have an effective embolic effect.
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