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BIBA Briefings: Critical limb ischaemia interventions buck trend for emergency only...

A BIBA MedTech Insights survey (conducted May 2020) indicates a trend towards centres only performing emergency percutaneous peripheral procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. However,...

COVID-19: Calls for physicians to address domestic violence during social distancing

Prism Schneider (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) and others write in a commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal—because of...

COVID-19: CMS outlines recommendations for re-starting non-emergent procedures

On 18 March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommended “limiting non-essential care and expanding surge capacity into ambulatory surgical centres and...

COVID-19: Cotton and surgical masks may be ineffective at stopping spread...

In a brief report in Annals of Internal Medicine, Seongman Bae (Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea) and colleagues report that neither surgical...

COVID-19: European Commission agrees to postpone new MDR because of pandemic

The European Commission (EC) has adopted a proposal to postpone by one year the date of application of the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR), which...

COVID-19: European Commission looking to postpone new MDR by one year

During a Q&A section of a European Commission (EC) college meeting on 25 March, EC spokesperson Stefan de Keersmaecker stated that the commission were looking to...

BIBA Briefings: FDA approval of IN.PACT AV is a boon for...

Last month (November), the FDA approved Medtronic’s paclitaxel-coated balloon IN.PACT AV for the management of failing arteriovenous fistulae (AVF). Approval for the device was based...

BIBA Briefings: Henry V can inspire us to develop innovative techniques...

During a session on radiation protection technologies at the 2019 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting (25­–29 September, San Francisco, USA), Lloyd W Klein (Rush Medical College,...

Poll favours interventional radiologists to perform mechanical thrombectomy in lieu of...

According to a BIBA MedTech survey, 52% of neurointerventionalists believe that they are the only specialists who have the relevant skills and experience to perform...

Private equity firm invests in UK centre performing EVLA for varicose...

A private equity firm, Palatine (Manchester, UK), has announced that it has made a “significant investment” into a UK centre—Veincentre—that provides endovenous laser ablation...

UK consensus statement on renal denervation “strongly encourages” clinicians to tell...

In a new consensus statement, the Joint UK Societies (JUKS)—which includes the British Society of Interventional Radiology—say that the evidence for renal denervation is “insufficient”...

US FDA grants IDE approval for pivotal clinical trial of MicroStent

Micro Medical Solutions has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). IDE approval allows the company to...

EuroPCR 2019: Renal denervation linked to reduction in subclinical atrial fibrillation

Data presented at EuroPCR today indicates that renal denervation with the Symplicity system (Medtronic) is associated with a reduction in subclinical atrial fibrillation in...

CX 2019 to host first-ever aortic and peripheral virtual reality live...

The Charing Cross International Symposium (CX) continues its three-year cycle of raising vascular and endovascular controversies in order to challenge the available evidence and...

Editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals claim medical misinformation puts “lives at...

The editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals—of both US and European societies—have come together to “sound the alarm” about the dangers of medical misinformation that...

Philips launches Azurion with FlexArm to aid image-guided procedures

Philips launches its Azurion with FlexArm to aid patient imaging and positioning during image-guided procedures. During increasingly complex interventions, clinicians need to quickly and easily...

Abiomed invests $15 million in Shockwave Medical

A press release reports that Abiomed is to invest US$15 million in Shockwave Medical and the two companies will collaborate on a training and...

US FDA plan shakeup of its 510(k) clearance programme

The US FDA has announced plans to modernise its 510(k) clearance programme for approving medical devices for the US market. Data show that about...

The resurgence of renal denervation

More than ever before, arterial hypertension represents one of the greatest health threats and challenges for both patients and treating physicians. With the new...

US FDA approve new study of Medtronic’s Spyral renal denervation system

The FDA have given Medtronic approval to begin a clinical trial to evaluate the Symplicity Spyral renal denervation system in patients with hypertension who...

First patients enrolled in trial of MobiusHD for drug-resistant hypertension

Vascular Dynamics has revealed that enrolment of the first patients in an FDA-approved and best-in-class pivotal clinical trial has started. The CALM-2 study is...

Otsuka Holdings, Otsuka Medical Devices and ReCor Medical to merge

Otsuka Holdings, Otsuka Medical Devices, and ReCor Medical have signed a merger agreement pursuant to which Otsuka Holdings will acquire the remaining shares in...

One in five UK doctors say under staffing has affected patient...

The annual census of UK consultants and higher speciality trainees—Focus on Physicians 2017–18—indicates that more than half of all consultants and two thirds of...

First patient enrolled in Frontier IV clinical trial of PerQseal large...

Vivasure Medical has announced the successful enrolment of the first patient in the Frontier IV clinical study, a non-randomised multicentre international trial, designed to...

First procedure performed in Rox Medical’s CONTROL HTN-2 clinical trial

The first patient was treated in the CONTROL hypertension (HTN)-2 clinical study, the Rox Medical’s pivotal study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of...

From SYMPLICITY HTN-1 to SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED: The story of renal...

It is now almost a decade since the first patient underwent catheter-based renal denervation as a participant in a safety and proof-of concept study...

ESC 2017: MobiusHD implant shown to reduce resistant hypertension

The European results of the first-in-human trial of Vascular Dynamics’ MobiusHD implant indicate that the device is associated with a reduction in 24-hour ambulatory...

Merit Medical partners with world-renown interventional cardiologist to deliver transradial course

Interventional News for specialists
Merit Medical will partner with internationally renowned interventional cardiologist Ferdinand Kiemeneij to deliver the next generation in educational opportunities for interventional cardiologists and interventional...

Terumo to distribute STARSystem for radial access procedures in Europe

Terumo Europe has entered into a distribution agreement with New Zealand company Adept Medical to make the STARSystem available to clinicians working across Western...

Endovascular denervation of the coeliac or hypogastric arteries to manage refractory...

Cancer pain matters and it is likely to matter even more in the coming years. Treatment advances have increased life expectancy for cancer patients,...

Terumo’s FineDuo microcatheter receives CE mark

FineDuo—a low profile, multifunctional, dual-lumen microcatheter—now has the CE mark. The device has been developed for use during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for guidewire...