Tag: CLTI
Cordis names George Adams as chief medical officer
Cordis has announced George Adams as chief medical officer.
"We are delighted to have Dr Adams join our team as we continue to build the...
Shockwave Medical enrols first patient in Disrupt BTK II study for...
Shockwave Medical has announced the start of the Disrupt BTK II postmarket study to assess the safety, effectiveness and optimal clinical use of the...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of October 2021
New data from a head-to-head, randomised trial comparing vascular closure devices, highlights from CX Aortic Vienna 2021 (5–7 October, broadcast) and an interview with past Society...
FDA clears 12 new XO Cross microcatheters
Transit Scientific has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of new hydrophilic-coated XO Cross microcatheters for guidewire support, exchange, and contrast media...
Surgeons must stay skilled in femorotibial/pedal bypass surgery, PVI audience hears
At Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) 2021 (21–23 October, Paris, France), Peter Schneider (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA) emphasised the need for...
Study supports use of WIfI classification system to predict revascularisation benefit...
A retrospective study supports the use of the Wound, ischaemia, and foot infection (WIfI) classification system to predict the revascularisation benefit for diabetic patients...
VIVA 2021: IVL “consistently” treats real-world calcium in multiple peripheral vessel...
An interim analysis from the DISRUPT PAD III observational study showed that intravascular lithotripsy (IVL; Shockwave Medical) performs “consistently well” across challenging peripheral vessels,...
Why Rotarex is my first choice treatment in patients with bypass...
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Bruno Migliara (Peschiera del Garda, Italy) talks to Vascular News about the reasons...
R3 Vascular reports the initiation of its first-in-human clinical study
R3 Vascular has reported the successful initiation of its first-in-human clinical study evaluating the technical and clinical performance of the R3 Vascular Magnitude bioresorbable...
PRISTINE registry with Selution SLR sirolimus drug-eluting balloon completes enrolment
MedAlliance has announced completion of patient enrolment in the PRISTINE clinical trial with the Selution SLR 018 drug-eluting balloon (DEB) for the treatment of...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of June 2021
New data from Philips' TOBA II below-the-knee (BTK) clinical trial, physicians' call for the AMPREDICT decision support tool to be applied in clinical practice,...
Lack of access to vascular specialists creates major disparities in amputation...
Speaking on current trends in amputation rates with critical limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) patients, Misty Humphries (Sacramento, USA) tells Vascular News that while Medicare data shows that amputation rates...
Physicians call for clinical application of “helpful, meaningful” AMPREDICT decision support...
Researchers have found that the AMPREDICT decision support tool (DST) demonstrates “strong usability characteristics and clinical relevance” in amputation level decision-making for patients with...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of May 2021
Expanding eligibility for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), new tools for chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), and promising data for arteriovenous (AV) fistula remote monitoring all...
SoundBite Medical announces use of its Active Wire 0.014″ platform at...
SoundBite Medical Solutions recently announced the use of its novel Active Wire 0.014” platform at a first site in the USA in the successful...
XO Score scoring sheath platform wins medical design award
Transit Scientific today announced that its XO Score scoring sheath platform has been named a winner in the 2021 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA)....
One-year outcomes from PROMISE I US study of LimFlow system published
LimFlow SA recently announced the publication of 12-month data from the full patient cohort in its PROMISE I study of the LimFlow percutaneous deep...
New tools for CLTI: ISET audience hear what’s on the horizon...
“I am going to give you reasons to be excited about your critical limb practice,” Peter Schneider (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco,...
Micro Medical Solutions receives FDA breakthrough device designation for MicroStent vascular...
Micro Medical Solutions (MMS) recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough device designation for its MicroStent vascular stent....
“A reliable tool”: Positive findings for 2D perfusion angiography in CLTI...
Researchers suggest that in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), two-dimensional (2D) perfusion angiography is a “reliable tool” when used according to standardised methods....
Introduction of dedicated vascular limb salvage clinic improves one-year amputation outcomes...
One-year outcomes of patients with chronic-limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) treated in an outpatient-based vascular limb salvage clinic show an improved rate of major amputation....
The CLI Global Society announces the Journal of Critical Limb Ischemia
The CLI Global Society is launching the first peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on interventional techniques pertaining to critical limb ischemia (CLI). The new journal,...
Real-world data on SeQuent Please OTW DCB presented at LINC 2021
One-year findings of the CONSEQUENT all-comers observational study of the paclitaxel drug-coated balloon (DCB) SeQuent Please OTW (B Braun) were reported at LINC 2021...
FDA grants breakthrough device designation to PEDRA Xauron real-time tissue perfusion...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Pedra Technology a breakthrough device designation for the periprocedural use of the company’s Pedra Xauron...
No safety concerns and favourable patency at two years with Absorb...
The Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS; Abbott Vascular) can be used for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) patients in infrapopliteal arteries with...
CDC recognises and codifies critical limb-threatening ischaemia in ICD-10-CM
A coalition organised by the CLI Global Society has announced its proposal to distinctly recognise "critical limb ischaemia" (CLI) and "chronic limb-threatening ischaemia" (CLTI)...
Systematic review and meta-analysis finds “substantial” one-year mortality rate in octogenarians...
In octogenarians with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), researchers found a one-year mortality rate of 32% after revascularisation, which was significantly higher than in non-octogenarians....
MERLION trial six-month outcomes presented at VIVA late-breaking trial session
Six-month clinical outcomes of the MERLION trial were presented as part of the VIVA Late-Breaking Clinical Trials Livesteam (25 June), by Tjun Tang (Singapore...
“On the descending curve”: BEST-CLI rises to COVID-19 and financial challenges
Vascular News spoke to the principal investigators of the BEST-CLI (Best endovascular versus best surgical therapy in critical limb ischaemia) trial—Alik Farber (Boston Medical...
Rexgenero acquires the key technology and programme assets of aratinga.bio SAS...
Rexgenero, a regenerative medicine company developing advanced cell therapies to treat chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), has announced the acquisition of all the key assets...
Letter from Seattle: Amid COVID-19 pandemic, time to act is long...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Benjamin W Starnes and Niten Singh urge service chiefs across the USA to "act this minute" in order to conserve...
Interdisciplinary wound care teams are integral for CLTI patients’ care, ISET...
The 32nd International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET; 22–25 January, Hollywood, USA) had a particular focus on treating critical limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI). In the...
New meta-analysis finds “no observed difference” in mortality between paclitaxel and...
February 2020 brings another paclitaxel device meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials in chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) patients. Krystal Dinh (Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia) et...
Vascular surgeons and cardiologists respond to new meta-analysis of PCBs in...
Eminent vascular surgeons and interventional cardiologists including Kim Hodgson (Springfield, USA), Ramon Varcoe (Sydney, Australia) and Gary Ansel (Columbus, USA) give their thoughts on...
IR experts respond to new meta-analysis of paclitaxel-coated balloons in infrapopliteal...
A range of interventional radiology experts including Michael Dake (Tucson, USA), John Kaufman (Portland, USA), Jim Reekers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Gunnar Tepe (Rosenheim,...
Vascular limb salvage (VaLS) clinic helps to meet the VSGBI time-to-treatment...
Described as “deliberately challenging”, the new time-to-treatment targets published by the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI), as part of the Peripheral...
First CLTI patient enrolled in PROMISE II pivotal study of LimFlow...
LimFlow, a specialist in minimally-invasive technology for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a severe form of peripheral artery disease (PAD), has announced...
LimFlow receives FDA approval for US study of minimally-invasive technology designed...
LimFlow has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its investigational device exemption (IDE) for the PROMISE II pivotal study of...
New Global Vascular Guidelines for CLTI patients now open for stakeholder...
The draft Global Vascular Guidelines on chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) have just been posted for open public comment until 3 December 2018. Michael...
