SyntheMed's REPEL-CV Approved for Use After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

March 9, 2008 - Biomaterials company SyntheMed Inc. has received FDA approval of its pre-market approval (PMA) application for REPEL-CV Adhesion Barrier for use in pediatric cardiac surgery patients.

REPEL-CV is a bioresorbable adhesion barrier film based on SyntheMed’s proprietary polymer technology. When placed over the surface of the heart at the conclusion of an open-heart surgical procedure it is designed to reduce the severity of adhesions that form between the surface of the heart and adjacent tissue surfaces following the surgical procedure. REPEL-CV is designed to provide the therapeutic benefit and then degrade so that it is cleared from the surgical site.

In a randomized, controlled clinical trial conducted at 15 pediatric cardiac surgery centers throughout the U.S., over 70 percent of the REPEL-CV treated patients were completely free of clinically significant adhesions, the most severe grade of adhesions measured, as compared to less than 30 percent in the control patients.

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