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‘Connect the world’ session at LINC 2023 projects “outstanding” first-release data...

The 'Connect the world: Japan' session at this year’s Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC 2023, 6–9 June, Leipzig, Germany)—in collaboration with the Japanese Endovascular...
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More mixed results for DCBs in AV access maintenance as evidence...

Additional randomised controlled data regarding the effectiveness of drug-coated balloons (DCBs) in maintaining arteriovenous (AV) access offers new evidence, but it is freighted with...

SWEDEPAD unplanned interim analysis shows no difference in all-cause mortality for...

An unplanned interim analysis of the registry-based SWEDEPAD clinical trial, in which patients with peripheral arterial disease received treatment with paclitaxel-coated (drug-coated balloons or...

Paclitaxel situation “crystallising” thanks to new data and teamwork, VIVA audience...

This year's Vascular Interventional Advances annual meeting (VIVA 2020; 6–8 November, online) opened with a session on controversial hot topics and advanced multidisciplinary approaches...

VIVA 2019: SELUTION sirolimus DCB safe and effective through two years

The SELUTION SFA trial met its primary endpoint and demonstrated an late lumen loss of 0.19mm. Furthermore, excellent freedom from clinically driven TLR was...

Philips receives FDA approval for low-dose drug-coated balloons

Philips has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for two Stellarex 0.035” low-dose (200mm and 150mm) drug-coated balloons for the treatment of...

A panel of experts comments on IN.PACT AV ACCESS data

NOTE: This video is ONLY available to watch in selected countries and geographies   Jos van den Berg (Lugano, Switzerland) speaks to Andrew Holden (Auckland, New...
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MHRA issues medical device alert for paclitaxel use in the UK

Do not use paclitaxel drug-coated balloons (DCBs) or drug-eluting stents (DESs) in the routine treatment of patients with intermittent claudication until further notice, a...
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Meta-analysis finds a higher risk of death in the long term...

New data, just published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), suggest that there is an increased risk of death at two...
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Without additional long-term and patient-level data, Katsanos et al’s conclusion is...

By Thomas Zeller The Katsanos et al meta-analysis reports an increased risk of mortality beyond one year across randomised studies of paclitaxel-coated balloons (DCB) and...