Lombard Medical announced on 30 July 2015 the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Altura Medical, a privately-held, venture-backed company that has developed an innovative ultra-low profile endovascular stent graft technology that, according to Lombard, offers a simple and predictable solution for the treatment of standard abdominal aortic aneurysm anatomies.
Eximo Medical has completed its series A funding round of US$1.6 million. Accelmed, a medical device Investment Fund, led the round, with the participation of the Alfred Mann Institute at the Technion (AMIT), the Technion R&D Foundation Ltd and a private investor.
Boston Childrens Hospital physicians report the first cases of children benefitting from 3D printing of their anatomy before undergoing high-risk brain procedures. The four children had life-threatening cerebrovascular malformations that posed special treatment challenges.
The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a new technology add-on payment for Bard’s Lutonix drug-coated balloon under the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system.
Newly published research has documented the ability of Teleflex Incorporated’s Arrow central venous catheter (CVC) with ARROWg+ard Blue Technology to reduce both catheter-related bloodstream infections and direct costs associated with treating those infections, even when the infection risk is already low.
Gore has applauded the recent reclassification of endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair (EVAR) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to a new Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) classification that will result in an increase in the hospital reimbursement for these procedures.
Patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) that has spread only to the liver experienced the greatest improvement in progression-free survival in the liver from the addition of SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres to a current first-line chemotherapy regimen, according to new data from the SIRFLOX study presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 17th World Congress of Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGIC; 1–4 July, Barcelona, Spain).
Twelve-month results from the VeClose trial have demonstrated cyanoacrylate adhesive (CAE) is non-inferior to radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the treatment of incompetent great saphenous veins.
After obtaining a PhD in Biophysics in London, UK, Janet Powell, professor of Vascular Biology & Medicine at Imperial College, London, studied medicine in the United States, before returning to the UK where she completed clinical training in pathology, specialising in cardiovascular risk. In this interview, Powell tells why the cause and management of abdominal aortic aneurysms are her major research interest and speaks about her early career, her mentors, the IMPROVE randomised controlled trial, and also her interests outside medicine.
David Cull, Greenville, USA, writes that vascular access placement in the elderly needs to take into account patients’ physiological age in an effort to predict survival.
Open vena caval surgery is rare. It is mainly performed for oncological indications when the inferior vena cava is involved by an adjacent tumour. One of the most common malignancies that affect the inferior vena cava is renal cell carcinomas of the kidneys with thrombi that extend into the inferior vena cava lumen or invade its wall. This occurs more commonly on the right side due to shorter renal vein. Removal of these tumors and accompanying thrombi provide survival benefits for those patients. Additionally, among the non-oncological indications of inferior vena cava surgery is the occasional need to remove inferior vena cava filters that have been inserted to prevent pulmonary emboli and could not be retrieved through conventional endovascular approaches.
Medtronic has announced that the first two European patient cases with the Endurant Evo AAA stent graft system were successfully performed by Hence Verhagen, chief of vascular surgery and his team at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
A study utilising preoperative anatomical severity grading in patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has shown that high scores correlate with increased total cost and resource utilisation and the need for adjunctive procedures during endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Because of these adjunctive techniques, the cost of EVAR was US$9,100 higher than open repair in patients with complex anatomies.
Lombard Medical announced on 30 July 2015 the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Altura Medical, a privately-held, venture-backed company that has developed an innovative ultra-low profile endovascular stent graft technology that, according to Lombard, offers a simple and predictable solution for the treatment of standard abdominal aortic aneurysm anatomies.
Essential Medical has successfully commenced EU clinical studies using its Manta large bore vascular closure device, a vascular closure device designed to seal both 14F and 18F large bore femoral punctures.
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