June 4, 2020 — Transit Scientific announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the XO Score Percutaneou ...
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.
May 28, 2020 – MedAlliance has announced the award of its second European CE mark clearance for its Selution SLR 0.014 ...
Interview with Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
February 24, 2020 — Abbott has voluntarily recalled specific lots of two types of its coronary angioplasty catheters — ...
November 21, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Medtronic In.Pact AV drug-coated balloon ...
November 7, 2019 — The IN.PACT Arteriovenous (AV) Access randomized trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the ...
November 7, 2019 — Real-world, four-year study results of the In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon (DCB) demonstrate long ...
November 7, 2019 — There was no difference between drug-coated balloons (DCB) vs. plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA) ...
November 6, 2019 – Positive, two-year data from the first-in-human study of Selution SLR, MedAlliance’s novel sirolimus ...
November 6, 2019 – Boston Scientific announced positive data for two of its devices within the peripheral drug-eluting ...
October 15, 2019 — Royal Philips introduced two new balloons to its Stellarex 0.035-inch low-dose drug-coated balloon ...
October 10, 2019 — An independent analysis of Lutonix 035 drug-coated balloon (DCB) patient-level data showed no ...
Chandan Devireddy, M.D., offers insights about what he saw as the top take aways from the 2019 Transcatheter ...
September 20, 2019 — Orchestra BioMed Inc., in partnership with Terumo Corp. announced the company has secured ...
August 27, 2019 — Concept Medical was recently granted Breakthrough Therapy designation by the U.S. Food and Drug ...