Covidien has announced the six-month results of the VeClose pivotal study, which demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the VenaSeal closure system in patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) having symptomatic reflux in the great saphenous vein. The results were presented at American College of Phlebology Annual Congress (ACP 2014; Phoenix, USA).
The Gore Viabahn Endoprosthesis has received CE mark approval to improve blood flow in symptomatic obstruction of peripheral veins, excluding the venae cavae and pulmonary veins.
The results of a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (30 November–5 December, Chicago, USA) show that placement of internal iliac balloons is technically feasible, well-tolerated and leads to satisfactory maternal and foetal outcomes with minimal complications.
Medtronic has announced the latest results from two clinical studies analysing the performance of the Endurant AAA stent graft system. The Endurant system has been used to treat more than 165,000 patients worldwide since it was initially introduced in Europe in 2008, which according to a company press release, is more than any other device of its kind, being selected for nearly one of every two endovascular procedures to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms around the world.
ArtVentive Medical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the Endoluminal Occlusion System (EOS). Designed for use in the peripheral vasculature, the EOS offers immediate, complete and total occlusion in arterial and venous settings.
Suresh Vedantham, professor of Radiology, Interventional Radiology Section, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, USA, spoke to Interventional News on the latest from the paper “Quality improvement guidelines for the treatment of lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis with use of endovascular thrombus removal” hot on the heels of its online publication in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR).
“No matter what their future orientation, interventional radiologists involved in interventional oncology need to have a basic training in what is called ‘general interventional radiology’ in order to be able to provide a uniform and standardised care,” José Ignacio Bilbao Jaureguízar, professor and head of the Department of Interventional Radiology, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, told Interventional News.
In a new consensus statement, the Joint UK Societies claim that the negative results of SYMPLICITY HTN-3 should not be used as a “rationale for abandoning” renal denervation as a “novel therapeutic development” for resistant hypertension because they claim more clinical trials are needed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the therapy.
Results of the DISRUPT PAD study show that Lithoplasty, a new balloon-based technology, demonstrates safety and efficacy in the treatment of superficial femoral artery and popliteal artery disease. Early results with the technology were presented at a late-breaking trial session at the Vascular Interventional Advances conference (VIVA, 4–7 November, Las Vegas, USA).
Royal Philips has introduced the DoseWise Portal, a comprehensive radiation dose management software solution aimed at managing radiation exposure risk to patients and their caregivers.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the European Commission have given clearance of Medtronic’s proposed acquisition of Covidien.
Silk Road Medical’s 30-day outcomes from the ROADSTER IDE study were presented at the Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session at the 2014 Vascular InterVentional Advances (VIVA) Meeting in Las Vegas, with additional data presented at the VEITHsymposium in New York.
The first large-scale, multispecialty prospective clinical research trial to evaluate the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters and related follow-up treatment in the USA – initiated by a collaboration between the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) – is set to enrol the first patient in spring 2015 with participation from seven filter manufacturers.
Hansen Medical has announced the completion of the first robotic prostatic artery embolisation (PAE) in the USA. Sandeep Bagla, interventional radiologist, performed the procedure at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia using the Magellan robotic system.
CeloNova BioSciences has announced that the US FDA has granted approval to start an investigational device exemption (IDE) clinical trial for its Oncozene embolic microspheres, loaded with doxorubicin, a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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