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EuroPCR 2019: Elixir Medical touts DynamX

May 23, 2019 By Brad Perriello

Elixir Medical's DynamX stent

Elixir Medical touted clinical and imaging results from a study of its DynamX drug-eluting stent, which is designed to restore normal pulsatility and adaptive remodeling in blood vessels after treating a coronary lesion. DynamX, introduced in 2017 at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, is a cobalt-chromium stent with a biodegradable polymer coating that releases […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Featured, Stents Tagged With: Biotronik, corindus, Elixir Medical Corporation, EuroPCR 2019

Elixir Medical unveils ‘bioadaptive’ metallic drug-eluting stent at TCT 2017

October 31, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Elixir Medical DynamX

Interventional cardiologists have used stents to keep the heart’s coronary arteries open for decades. Transitioning from bare-metal stents to drug-eluting stents in the early 2000s brought tremendous benefits for patients. “But over the last 10 years, the technological progress and meaningful clinical improvements have plateaued,” Elixir Medical CEO Motasim Sirhan told Drug Delivery Business News. “When you stent an artery […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Stents, Vascular Tagged With: Elixir Medical Corporation

European task force: Docs should favor drug-eluting stents over bioresorbable scaffolds

October 12, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Abbott

Physicians should not use bioresorbable scaffolds in place of current-generation drug-eluting stents, according to a report from the European Society of Cardiology and European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Inventions. The ECS/EAPCI report says that as long as concerns remain about the increased risk of myocardial infarction and scaffold thrombosis linked with bioresorbable scaffolds, physicians should […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott Laboratories, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Elixir Medical Corporation, Reva Medical

Reva Medical wins CE Mark for Fantom bioresorbable scaffold

April 4, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Reva Medical

Reva Medical (ASX:RVA) said yesterday that it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Fantom sirolimus-eluting bioresorbable coronary scaffold. The Fantom scaffold is the San Diego, Calif.-based company’s 1st commercial product. Reva said it plans to begin selling the product in Europe this quarter. “CE Mark approval for Fantom is a major milestone for […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott Laboratories, Biotronik, Elixir Medical Corporation, Reva Medical

Elixir Medical’s DeSyne stent tops Medtronic’s Endeavor after 5 years

February 28, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Elixir Medical‘s novolimus-eluting stent, DeSyne, outperformed Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) zotarolimus-eluting stent, Endeavor, according to long-term data from Elixir’s Excella II trial. The study enrolled 210 patients with 2 or more de novo lesions in 2 different epicardial vessels. Researchers randomly assigned patients in a 2:1 ratio to the novolimus-eluting stent or the zotarolimus-eluting stent. The device emits a low […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Vascular, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Elixir Medical Corporation, Medtronic

Akesys, Elixir Medical tout 1st implant for Prava bioresorbable peripheral stent

October 20, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Elixir Medical, Akesys Medical

Akesys Medical and Elixir Medical Corporation said today that it implanted its 1st Prava sirolimus eluting bioresorbable peripheral scaffold for the treatment of blockages in the superficial femoral artery. The scaffold was developed to keep the large artery in the thigh open and restore blood flow to the leg and resorb into the body, making […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Implants, Stents Tagged With: Akesys Medical, Elixir Medical Corporation

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