The former vice president of R&D for drug-coated balloon maker Lutonix, Christopher Barry, yesterday pleaded guilty to a single count of trade secret theft in federal court in Minneapolis. Barry, who left Lutonix in 2015 to become CEO of Urotronic, admitted to downloading 6 files in April 2015 containing trade secrets about the development of […]
Drug-Eluting Balloons
How Boston Sci is getting drug-eluting stents and balloons into legs
Boston Scientific officials think they have a leg up when it comes to bringing drug-eluting technology to bear on peripheral artery disease. That’s because the medical device giant has decades of experience with balloons and drug-eluting stents used around the heart. When it comes to treating the narrowing arteries in the legs and thighs, Boston […]
Spectranetics wins CE Mark for smaller Stellarex DCB
Spectranetics (NSDQ:SPNC) said yesterday that it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for a smaller size of its Stellarex drug-coated balloon. The Stellarex 0.014” device is designed to treat small vessels, below-the-knee disease and challenging critical limb ischemia. The larger, 0.035” device won CE Mark approval in December 2014, just before Spectranetics paid Covidien $30 million deal […]
TCT 2016: Structural heart, drug-coated balloons take their turn on Day 3
The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference is under way in Washington, D.C., with late-breaking study results beginning Oct. 29. We’ll update this post throughout the day as new results come in, so be sure to check back for the latest news out of TCT 2016. After stents took center stage Day 1, with a raft of […]
Medtronic touts In.Pact Admiral DCB data
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today touted data from a pair of studies of its In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon, presented today at the annual Vascular Interventional Advances conference in Las Vegas. Researchers revealed the formal cost-effectiveness analysis of the U.S. cohort of Medtronic’s In.Pact SFA trial, and in-stent restenosis cohort data from its In.Pact Global study. Medtronic said the 2-year, […]
TCT 2015: Two-year results from Medtronic’s In.Pact SFA trial
Two-year results from Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) In.Pact SFA study showed that the drug-eluting balloon was better than conventional balloon angioplasty, researchers said today at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in San Francisco. The 331-patient study randomized subjects 2:1 to either treatment with Medtronic’s In.Pact Admiral DEB or standard angioplasty. The primary efficacy endpoint was primary patency, […]
TCT 2015: More 2-year data on Bard’s Lutonix DEB
C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) yesterday released 2-year results from a small group of patients in a real-world registry study of its Lutonix drug-eluting balloon at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in San Franscisco. Bard said the Lutonix 035 device, which is designed to treat peripheral artery disease, showed a 94.3% rate of freedom from target lesion revascularization in […]
Spectranetics to boost Stellarex spend
Bard shares tick up on Q1 earnings beat
Spectranetics touts Stellarex drug-eluting balloon data
PAD: Medtronic launches In.Pact Admiral DEB in the U.S.
