July 16, 2009 – Cook Medical received clearance today from the FDA to market its newest balloon dilatation ...
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.
July 14, 2009 – Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI) said yesterday the first patient has been enrolled in its ...
July 2, 2009 – Researchers from Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, N.H., have published a new ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
The focus on balloon angioplasty largely slipped from the interventional limelight a decade ago after the ...
June 9, 2009 - AngioScore Inc. said today its flagship product, the AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter, received ...
May 19, 2009 - Invatec announced today the availability of its newly CE-marked coronary balloon, the IN.PACT ...
May 10, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. Friday announced the settlement of all royalty disputes with Johnson and Johnson (J ...
April 14, 2009 - The voluntary medical device recall initiated on Feb. 2, 2009 by Arrow International’s Cardiac ...
April 2, 2009 – Invatec received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market its Amphirion Deep 150 mm Long PTA ...
March 16, 2009 – Invatec today announced CE-certification of a new coronary balloon, the IN.PACT Falcon paclitaxel ...
March 10, 2009 - Abbott today launched the VOYAGER NC Coronary Dilatation Catheter, a next-generation balloon ...
VOYAGER NC is Abbott's next-generation balloon dilatation catheter for the treatment of coronary artery disease ...
February 2, 2009 - Cook Medical’s new Advance PTX drug-eluting balloon was used in a live case transmitted from ...
January 21, 2009 - Invatec this week announced the European launch of a new peripheral balloon, the IN.PACT Amphirion ...
January 13, 2009 - Micell Technologies, a development-stage biomedical device company dedicated to developing ...