October 25, 2013 – The global sales of drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) across the 10 major markets (10MM) are expected to ...
Balloon Catheter
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for angioplasty balloon catheters (PTA). These are used in arteries with atherosclerotic lesions to compress the plaque expand the artery lumen to reopen occluded or heavily stenosed atherosclerotic lesions. Balloons are often used in combination with a stent to prop the treated vessel segment open. In addition to plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA), this section includes news about drug-coated balloon (DCB), valvuloplasty balloons and specialty cutting balloon.
October 25, 2013
October 22, 2013 — AngioScore Inc., a developer of angioplasty catheters for use in the treatment of cardiovascular ...
October 22, 2013
Feature | Kamran Zamanian, Ph.D., and Jefferson Harding, B.Sc., MA
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) balloon catheters were the first devices used in the field of ...
July 23, 2013Sponsored Content
Case Study | Baylor Scott and White Heart Hospital
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
May 05, 2023
July 23, 2013 — AngioScore Inc. announced the completion of enrollment in the Drug-Coated AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon ...
July 23, 2013July 1, 2013 — One-year data from an Italian multicenter randomized controlled trial of the In.Pact Falcon drug-eluting ...
July 01, 2013
June 25, 2013 — Cordis Corp. announced the European CE marking and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of ...
June 25, 2013
June 10, 2013 — C. R. Bard Inc. announced the enrollment of the first patient into the Lutonix Below the Knee (BTK) Clin ...
June 10, 2013
June 4, 2013 — Covidien recently introduced its RapidCross 0.014-inch Rapid Exchange Percutaneous Transluminal ...
June 04, 2013
Feature | Kamran Zamanian, Ph.D., and Jefferson Harding, B.Sc., MA
Interventional cardiology treats cardiovascular disease, an illness currently afflicting one in every three Americans ...
May 30, 2013
May 1, 2013 — InterValve Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance to market the new V8 Aortic Valvuloplasty ...
May 01, 2013
Feature | Dave Fornell
February 22, 2013 — Physicians have new tools for treating coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs) after Abbott ...
February 22, 2013
January 28, 2013 — AngioScore Inc. announced the launch of its new 100 mm length AngioSculpt PTA Scoring Balloon ...
January 28, 2013
January 22, 2013 — Using tiny balloons to temporarily block blood flow to the uterus during a high-risk Caesarean ...
January 22, 2013December 26, 2012 — Covidien announced a definitive agreement to acquire CV Ingenuity. The companies expect to complete ...
December 26, 2012
November 1, 2012 — It looks as though drug-eluting balloons (DEBs), already widely used in Europe, are set to burst into ...
November 01, 2012