Congresses and Meetings

New data, presented at TCT 2012 from the ADVANCE registry, confirms that mortality rates with transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) using Medtronic’s CoreValve have dropped steadily since the devices’ earliest clinical trials.

Five-year results from the LEADERS trial, showed improved long-term clinical outcomes for BioMatrix Flex™, Biosensors’ Biolimus A9™-eluting stent system with a biodegradable polymer coating, compared to J&J’s Cypher® Select™, sirolimus-eluter coated with a durable polymer.

K2M is the largest privately owned company of its type in the world, focusing as it does on addressing complex spinal pathologies with innovative devices and solutions. It’s showing its wares at this year’s NASS meeting this week.

New Data Presented at the 24th Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Scientific Symposium Show Sustained Blood Pressure Reduction and Safety with Symplicity™ Renal Denervation System in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Hypertension

One of a flurry of spinal press announcements in advance of the NASS meeting, sees Choice Spine trumpeting the launch of its new Hawkeye™ Vertebral Body Replacement system.

Precision Spine acquired Spinal USA earlier this year and is keen to make sure it builds on the event with its first big showing at the North American Spine Society meeting this week in Dallas, Texas.

Here’s a Virtual Conference Rebroadcast on a proposed bill requiring the FDA to establish an Office of Mobile Health to help speed the development and approval of device apps.

Loma Vista Medical says its World first ultra-precise balloon is specifically designed to prevent balloon ruptures in TAVI and BAV procedures. Catch it at TCT 2012.

Voiding dysfunction device company Uroplasty Inc. tells us that positive results from a long-term clinical pilot study using an implantable tibial nerve stimulation device will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society.

TAVI is a great case study in technology adoption, most strikingly pointing to post-market data in the form of registries as a window on real world use of a technique which actually makes for a pretty compelling endorsement of EU regulatory rules.

Clinical study results presented this week are being touted as support for the theory that by inducing a three dimensional component into a mechanical stent, its flow characteristics will mimic the natural geometry of human vessels.

Covidien is showcasing some of its most innovative surgical products at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) annual clinical congress being held at McCormick Place in Chicago this week. Key featured products include the new Sonicision™ ultrasonic incision and hemostasis device as well as the company’s iDrive™ Ultra powered stapling system.

The UK’s Aesthetic Plastic surgeons meet next week in an annual event that might just attract more attention than usual in the wake of the PIP scandal which has cast something of a cloud over the specialty throughout 2012.

Cook Medical’s new Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery clinical division is the company’s tenth business unit and is showing its new ideas to the specialty at this week’s AAO-HNS conference in Washington, D.C.

Research presented at last week’s ESC suggests Heartlight may deliver more durable PV isolation vs Cryoballoon ablation.

K2M, Inc., the device company focused on delivering minimally invasive solutions to complex spinal pathologies, has chosen the Scoliosis Research Society Annual meeting at which to announce the launch of its Serengeti® Complex Spine Minimally Invasive Retractor System.