UK medtech regulators on Monday announced that manufacturers of paclitaxel-eluting balloons for use in peripheral arteries must add a warning label about the devices’ risks. A meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Heart Association in 2018 suggested that patients treated with paclitaxel-coated balloons and stents for peripheral artery disease could be at a higher risk for late death compared […]
Cook Regentec launches blood filtration trial for critical limb ischemia
Cook Medical’s Regentec division today announced the launch of a clinical trial to evaluate its HemaTrate blood filtration system to treat patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) due to peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Indianapolis-based Cook Regentec said the HemaTrate system is designed to produce an autologous, peripheral blood-derived total nucleated cell (TNC) concentrate for intramuscular […]
Cook Medical touts paclitaxel-coated stent PAD study results
Cook Medical today touted five-year data from a study into the use of its Zilver PTX paclitaxel-coated stent for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The study concluded that there was no increase in long-term all-cause mortality due to paclitaxel after treatment using the Zilver PTX stent compared to traditional angioplasty or a bare-metal stent, according to a […]
FDA panel wants more, better data on paclitaxel-eluting devices
An FDA advisory panel on paclitaxel-eluting devices for treating peripheral artery disease yesterday found that the mortality signal indicated by a meta-analysis last year exists but that further study is needed to determine whether it’s a class effect and to pin down the cause of death. A meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Heart Assn. last December […]
FDA: More data needed on paclitaxel devices
More data is needed on devices that elute the drug paclitaxel to determine if they pose a higher mortality risk than non-eluting devices in treating peripheral artery disease, the FDA said ahead of an advisory panel meeting today. A meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Heart Assn. last December suggested that PAD patients treated with paclitaxel-coated balloons […]
Cook Regentec launches ProFusion therapeutic infusion needle
Cook Medical‘s Regentec division said today that it launched the ProFusion therapeutic infusion needle designed for the intramuscular or subdermal infusion of therapeutic agents in the U.S. and Canada. The Indianapolis-based business said that the ProFusion Therapeutic Infusion Needle features multiple sideports arranged in a spiral to aid in the uniform delivery and dispersement of […]
Late mortality rates ‘inadvertently reversed’ in 5-year study of paclitaxel-eluting stent
The journal Circulation said this week that the all-cause mortality rates in a study comparing a paclitaxel stent and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in people with peripheral artery disease were “inadvertently reversed” by the authors. In the first version of the paper, originally published in 2016, researchers reported that the 5-year all-cause mortality rate for people […]
Cook Medical wins FDA nod for 5mm Zilver PTX stent
Cook Medical said it won FDA approval for a smaller-diameter version of its Zilver PTX peripheral drug-eluting stent. Bloomington, Ind.-based Cook said the approval for the 5mm diameter Zilver PTX makes it the first such stent up to 140mm that’s approved in the U.S. for vessels as small as 4mm. “We spend a lot of time […]
TCT 2018: Boston Scientific wins FDA nod for drug-eluting vascular stent
On the heels of positive study results at the 30th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) won FDA approval for its drug-eluting vascular stent system, Eluvia. The device, which is designed for the treatment of peripheral artery disease, uses a drug-polymer combination to deliver paclitaxel over the course of a year. “Over the past decade, we’ve […]
Cook Medical touts launch, first use of Advance CS, Compass CT systems
Cook Medical today announced the launch and first use of its Advance CS coronary sinus infusion catheter and Compass CT disposable pressure transducer designed for treating heart failure patients. The CS catheter is a percutaneous balloon infusion catheter designed for use in retrograde coronary sinus infusion procedures to infuse therapeutic agents into the heart via the […]
