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US FDA seeks to “modernise” clinical trials with new draft guidance

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft guidance with updated recommendations for good clinical practices (GCPs) aimed at modernising the design...
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Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of March 2022

A review of intraoperative adverse events in patients treated with fenestrated and branched endovascular aneurysm repair, meta-analysis findings on peripheral arterial disease symptoms in...

Ra Medical Systems provides update on enrolment in pivotal atherectomy clinical...

Ra Medical Systems recently announced that enrolment has reached 95 patients in its pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the...

FDA issues two final guidances for including patient perspectives in medical...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two final guidances providing recommendations for including patient perspectives in medical device clinical studies.   As...
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Medtronic recalls HawkOne directional atherectomy system due to risk of tip...

According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Medtronic is recalling its HawkOne directional atherectomy system. The FDA has identified the recall as a...
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BD launches new Crosser iQ CTO recanalisation system 

BD has announced the launch and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the Crosser iQ chronic total occlusion (CTO) recanalisation system,...

FDA issues updated safety communication on use of Endologix AFX endovascular...

Today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an updated safety communication on the use of Endologix AFX endovascular grafts. This update includes...
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Alio and Lifeline create partnership for dialysis access patient monitoring

Alio has announced a partnership with Lifeline Vascular Care in support of patients living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Alio leverages artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of July 2021

Updated Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) clinical practice guidelines on extracranial cerebrovascular disease management and a new meta-analysis on paclitaxel in peripheral arterial disease...
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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....

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....

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...
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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...
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Okami Medical announces FDA 510(k) clearance of the LOBO-5 vascular occluder

Okami Medical has revealed the expansion of its LOBO vascular occlusion system product line with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of...

Vesper Medical announces first enrolment in the VIVID trial

Vesper Medical recently announced initiation of its US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational device exemption (IDE) study—VIVID (Venous stent for the iliofemoral vein investigational...

VIVO 12-month results show “very good early success, excellent safety and...

Anthony Comerota (Alexandria, USA), global principal investigator of the VIVO trial, discusses the highlights of the 12-month results of the VIVO clinical study that...

CDRH adjusts working practices with medical device companies to deal with...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has written to the medical device industry to outline its...

FDA issues guidance on PTA balloon and specialty catheter 510(k) submissions

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft guidance detailing the information device-makers should include in 510(k) submissions of catheter-based devices intended...

FDA clearance granted to Penumbra for Indigo Aspiration System

Penumbra has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for expanded indication of the Indigo Aspiration System. As part of the system,...

FDA approval granted to calf stimulation device for patients at high...

UK-based Sky Medical Technology has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its "geko" device for stimulation of the calf muscles...

Sundance sirolimus-coated balloon catheter granted FDA breakthrough device designation

Surmodics has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated its Sundance sirolimus-coated balloon catheter as a breakthrough device under the...

Endologix comments on recent FDA update on Type III endoleaks with...

Endologix have announced a response to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update regarding Type III endoleaks with the AFX Endovascular AAA System. Matt...

Medtronic receives FDA breakthrough device designation for its Valiant Navion LSA...

Medtronic today announced it has received breakthrough device designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Valiant TAAA stent graft system...

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...
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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...
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Orchestra BioMed announce FDA breakthrough device designation for Virtue sirolimus-eluting balloon

Orchestra BioMed, in partnership with Terumo Corporation, today announced that the company has secured breakthrough device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration...
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FDA clears Artis icono family of angiography systems from Siemens Healthineers

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Artis icono, a family of angiography systems from Siemens Healthineers that permit a range...
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Medtronic statement regarding updated FDA letter to healthcare providers on paclitaxel...

Medtronic has issued the following statement regarding the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) updated letter to healthcare providers for paclitaxel-devices in patients with...
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FDA: Paclitaxel device clinical trials “may continue”; Agency is working to...

Clinical studies of paclitaxel-coated balloons and paclitaxel-eluting stents “may continue and should collected long-term safety (including mortality) and effectiveness data”, says the US Food...
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FDA notifies BD that Lutonix paclitaxel balloon PMA application for below...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have denied BD premarket approval (PMA) for the company’s Lutonix drug-coated balloon (DCB) in the treatment of...
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FDA notifies BD that Lutonix paclitaxel balloon PMA request for below...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have denied BD premarket approval (PMA) for the company’s Lutonix drug-coated balloon (DCB) in the treatment of...
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CIRSE updates position on paclitaxel use in peripheral arteries

The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) has released a statement on the use of paclitaxel-coated balloons and stents in the treatment...

VLF 2019: White paper and individual patient data analysis are planned...

 Krishna Rocha-Singh (Springfield, USA) tells Vascular News that plans after VLF 2019 include publishing a white paper and expeditiously pooling individual patient-level data from...

Scott Gottlieb resigns as head of US FDA

The commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Scott Gottlieb, has unexpectedly resigned after serving just shy of two years in the...

US FDA evaluating paclitaxel data, recommend patient surveillance

The impact of the 2018 meta-analysis of randomised paclitaxel-device trials, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association by Konstantinos Katsanos et al,...
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US government shutdown disrupting FDA work

The US government shutdown means the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot accept new user fees, which means the agency cannot accept new...

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...

Lutonix 014 DCB gathers first randomised evidence of positive safety and...

Six-month outcomes of the Lutonix BTK IDE trial, a multicentre randomised controlled trial using the Lutonix 014 drug-coated balloon (DCB; BD), has demonstrated that...

Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft receives FDA approval

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft system (Medtronic) for the minimally invasive repair of all lesions...
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FDA grants IDE approval to Endologix for EVAS2 study of Nellix

Endologix has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence a confirmatory clinical study (EVAS2) to evaluate the...

US FDA clears Adhezion Biomedical’s SecurePortIV catheter adhesive

The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Adhezion Biomedical’s  SecurePortIV catheter securement adhesive for marketing. The adhesive is comprised of a cyanoacrylate formulation. It...

Alucent Medical receives FDA approval to begin Natural Vascular Scaffolding clinical...

Alucent Medical has announced that it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin Phase 1 human clinical studies of Natural Vascular...

Endologix provides update on the Nellix sealing system US regulatory status

Endologix has met with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its Nellix endovascular aneurysm sealing system (EVAS System). Based upon that meeting and...

Humacyte’s Humacyl receives US FDA expedited review designation

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Humacyte’s Humacyl investigational human acellular vessel (HAV) Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation. This designation means...

AV Medical’s Chameleon receives expanded indication to include infusion of diagnostic...

AV Medical Technologies has announced that its Chameleon PTA balloon catheter has received FDA clearance for an expanded indication to include infusion of diagnostic...

BTG receives FDA 510(k) clearance for EKOS Control Unit 4.0

BTG has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance has been granted to the EKOS Control Unit 4.0. The EKOS system includes an ultrasonic...

Cagent Vascular announces FDA 510(k) clearance of Serranator Alto serration balloon...

Cagent Vascular has announced US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance of its lead product, the Serranator Alto percutaneous transluminal angioplasty serration balloon catheter. The Serranator...

FlowAid receives FDA US market clearance for the FA100 SCCD

Having received CE mark approval in July and Health Canada approval in August of last year, FlowAid Medical Technologies has now received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Endologix resumes shipments of all sizes of AFX2 systems

Endologix has resumed shipments of all sizes of AFX2 endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm systems. The large diameter sizes of AFX2 were placed on a temporary...

Avinger announces new FDA clearance for Lumivascular imaging console

Avinger has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Lightbox L250 imaging console. Avinger says that with this...

US FDA bans powdered gloves

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule to ban powdered surgical gloves, patient examination gloves and the absorbable powder...

NICE collaborates with US FDA on Payer Communication Taskforce

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has announced its participation in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Payer Communication...

Merit Medical receives 510(k) clearance for the SwiftNINJA steerable microcatheter

Merit Medical Systems has received 510(k) clearance for the SwiftNINJA steerable microcatheter, covering peripheral and coronary applications. With the exception of Japan, Merit has...

Spectranetics files FDA pre-market approval application for the Stellarex drug-coated balloon

Spectranetics has submitted its pre-market approval application for the Stellarex drug-coated angioplasty balloon to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Stellarex is designed to restore...

US FDA clears Admedus Vascucel

  Admedus Limited has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to market VascuCel. “The FDA clearance for VascuCel is important for Admedus as...

US FDA releases draft guidance on real-world evidence and medical device...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a draft guidance document entitled “Use of Real-World Evidence to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Medical...