Pact Falcon(TM) (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) paclitaxel-eluting balloon between January 2009 and December 2011 were retrospectively studied. The measured end-points were cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI), target lesion revascularization (TLR), target vessel revascularization (TVR), ...
Cordis today announced the initiation of a global registry to track real-world outcomes for the Selution SLR drug-eluting balloon (DEB). Miami Lakes, Florida-based Cordis expects the SELUTION Global Coronary Registry to enroll up to 10,000 patients worldwide. It says that would make it one ...
A drug-eluting balloon is a non-stent technology in which the effective homogenous delivery of anti-proliferative drugs is processed by the vessel wall through an inflated balloon. This is done to r…
Kayssi A, Al-Atassi T, Oreopoulos G, Roche-Nagle G, Tan KT, Rajan DK. Drug-eluting balloon angioplasty versus uncoated balloon angioplasty for peripheral arterial disease of the lower limbs. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2016;8:CD011319....
A final post-dilation, at least 180 s, was performed with DEB (IN.PACT, Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota); sizing was 1:1 to the reference vessel diameter. The IN.PACT balloon has a surface-specific matrix coating consisting of Paclitaxel combined with a hydrophilic spacer (Freepac, Medtroni...
owing to their strong pipeline focus and established distribution network. The report profiles leading players operating in the global drug eluting balloon market, for example, Medtronic, Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), Boston Scientific Corporation, Cook Medi...
European regulators granted market clearance for Covidien‘s (NYSE:COV) Stellarex drug-eluting balloon for treating peripheral artery disease, the company said today. Covidien is due to sell the Stellarex assets to Spectranetics (NSDQ:SPNC) as soon as its $43 billion merger with Medtronic (NYSE:...
angio = angiography; DCB = drug-coated balloon; EES = everolimus-eluting stent(s); fup = follow-up; GW = guidewire; LL = late lumen loss; PICCOLETO II = Drug Eluting Balloon Efficacy for Small Coronary Vessel Disease Treatment trial; SVD = small vessel disease. Table 1. Demographic Chara...
In that study, rates of clinically driven TLR were similar for patients with critical limb ischemia and infrapopliteal lesions assigned the IN.PACT Amphirion drug-eluting balloon (Medtronic) or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (9.2% vs. 13.1%;P= .291), bu...
Drug-coated balloon treatment for patients with intermittent claudication: new insights from the IN.PACT Global Study long lesion (≥ 15 cm) imaging cohort. Presented at: EuroPCR; May 19, 2015; Paris, France. 15. Micari A. The drug-eluting balloon superficial femoral artery-long study: the...