Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

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May 10, 2010 – Patients treated with the Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent maintained clinical improvement ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Several paclitaxel drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) are currently available on the European market, and several others are ...

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An illustration showing how the Amphirion_drug-eluting, drug-coated balloon technology works.
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Drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) may offer new options in treating peripheral vessels and restenosis. DEBs already ...

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Feature | By Stephanie Labelle, senior analyst, Millennium Research Group

In recent years, many medical device companies saw the underserved lower extremity as an opportunity to enter the ...

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April 22, 2010 – Broadening its product scope into the peripheral artery disease market, Medtronic today received ...

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April 21, 2010 – More than 100,000 amputations are performed each year in the United States on patients with ...

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March 11, 2010 – The FDA has cleared the first low-profile, premounted, balloon-expandable stent system for use ...

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The general public usually does not take a big interest in cardiology or the interventional devices used to treat ...

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March 2, 2010 — Leg arteries that become narrow decrease blood circulation and can cause these extremities to ...

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March 2, 2010 — A new stent and delivery system for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) received CE ...

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February 22, 2010 – As part of a comarketing and trademark license agreement between MEDRAD Inc. and B. Braun ...

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February 11, 2010 — The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published results showing the Bard FLAIR ...

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A recently introduced atherectomy catheter offers a new class of device. It offers the advantages of two cutting ...

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January 27, 2010 – New 6, 7 and 8 mm diameters of the Maris Plus self-expanding peripheral stent system, were ...

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January 25, 2010 – Expanding its peripheral vascular disease product offerings, Medtronic Inc. today signed an ...

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