BD (NYSE: BDX) today touted the results of a clinical trial that showed “statistically significant safety equivalence” between its Lutonix 014 drug-coated balloon (DCB) and a standard angioplasty catheter (PTA) in treating narrowed or obstructed arteries below the knee. The trial’s primary safety endpoint—freedom from composite all-cause death, above the ankle or major reintervention of the treated limb […]
Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA)
VIVA 2015 Roundup: Medtronic touts Valiant stent graft, PAD stent-treatment data
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) this week presented data from 2 studies of its stent systems and announced a new study of its In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon. The announcements were made at the VIVA physicians annual conference in Las Vegas, Nev. The Fridley, Minn.-based medical giant presented data from a 2-year clinical trial of its Valiant Captivia thoracic stent graft […]
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, […]
