May 25, 2011 – Boston Scientific Corp. today announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its 2.25 mm Promus everolimus-eluting coronary stent system for use in vessels as small as 2.25 mm in diameter. The company plans to immediately launch the product in the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Xience nano everolimus-eluting coronary stent system for the treatment of coronary artery disease in small vessels. The Xience nano, which is based on the same platform as the Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent, offers physicians in the United States a new option for treating patients with coronary artery disease in vessels as small as 2.25 mm in diameter.

May 24, 2011 - Cordis announced it has obtained CE mark for its Empira and Empira NC RX percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) dilatation catheters for the treatment of coronary artery disease. The Empira systems are designed to enable interventional cardiologists to open patients' narrowed coronary arteries during angioplasty and stenting procedures. The company also highlighted its radial access products at EuroPCR 2011.

May 24, 2011 — Aptus Endosystems Inc., a medical device company developing advanced technology for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), announced CE mark approval for the Aptus EndoStapling System. The innovative helical staple technology enables independent endograft fixation, and is designed to mimic the hand suturing performed during open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Aortic aneurysms are an enlarged and weakened section of the aorta, which can be lethal if left untreated. Each year, an estimated 100,000 people in Europe and about 200,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with this condition. In EVAR, an alternative to open surgical repair, a metal and fabric endograft is implanted using a catheter-based delivery system to isolate blood flow away from the aneurysm to prevent potential rupture and death.

May 23, 2011 — Elixir Medical Corporation, a developer of product platforms combining state-of-the-art medical devices with advanced pharmaceuticals, announced that it has received CE Mark for its DESyne Drug Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

May 24, 2011 – Tryton Medical Inc. announced positive results in three “real world” European registries of the company’s Tryton Side Branch Stent System for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions in the side branch at the site of a bifurcation.


May 23, 2011 – An analysis of the benefits to using a fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided intervention strategy found that the technology can improve patient outcomes while saving significant amounts of money. Full results for the U.K., France and Italy and preliminary results in Switzerland and Belgium were announced at a late breaking trial session last week at EuroPCR.

May 23, 2011 - One-year results from the 278-patient multi-center, prospective, single-arm study conducted at 16 sites in Europe and Israel were presented today at the EuroPCR 2011 Congress in Paris. These results reinforce the outcomes observed with the "Next Generation" Presillon Plus (PioNIR) cobalt chromium bare metal stent systems at 9-month followup, which was the primary endpoint of the PioNIR study.

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