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Aponos Medical Corp., Kingston, N.H.
Aponos Medical makes a dime-sized device to close incisions made during surgical procedures.
Officers
Ken Spector, Co-founder & CEO
Denis LaBombard, Co-founder & CTO
Frank Patterson, Co-founder & VP of Development
Product
Aponos Medical Corp’s surgical tissue management platform technology is designed to enable and facilitate complex surgical procedures using minimally invasive approaches. This system platform combines a tissue management and closure device, with a precise positioning/delivery system, providing, in the first product offering, an endoscopic controlled and delivered method to safely, quickly and effectively manage tissue, for example:
- Method to close tissue defects such as holes, perforations, fistulas, etc.;
- Method to attach or anchor therapeutic devices, such as hernia mesh and GI barrier sleeves;
- Method of gathering tissue, raising it up from the surface, and locking it, thus making it easily available for tissue manipulation or removal, such as the removal of submucosal tumors.
These procedures are accomplished remotely using state of the art minimally invasive surgical (“MIS”) techniques commonly used today, and 100% compatible with the wide range and styles of existing off the shelf endoscopic devices.
