Acelity subsidiary KCI said today that it launched its Abthera open abdomen negative pressure therapy system in Japan. The San Antonio-based company’s Abthera is a temporary abdominal closure system intended to allow surgeons to manage challenging abdominal wall openings where primary closure is not possible and to manage repeat abdominal entries. KCI said that the system has […]
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Will Acelity go public again?
Privately held Acelity may go public again, according to news reports this week. London-based Apax Partners and a pair of Canadian pension funds acquired wound-care company Kinetic Concepts Inc. (now Acelity) for $6.1 billion in a leveraged buyout in 2011. Apax is now mulling an initial public offering for Acelity by mid-2019, Bloomberg and the […]
