Mini Stick Max 0.018-inch Coaxial Microintroducer Kit

Company AngioDynamics
Phone (800) 772-6446
Web www.angiodynamics.com

Key Features

  • Translucent hub enables visualization of flash back
  • Sheath size identifiers are color coded
  • Containment clip keeps components together in a sterile field
  • 10-cm and 15-cm sheath dilator options
  • 4-cm and 7-cm needle length options

AngioDynamics (Latham, NY) recently launched the Mini Stick Max 0.018-inch Coaxial Microintroducer Kit, the latest addition to its family of peripheral vascular access kits. Designed with innovation in mind, the Mini Stick Max 0.018-inch Coaxial Microintroducer Kit features an enhanced range of components to meet changing access needs. Three different configurations are available, including stainless palladium, nitinol tungsten, and stainless steel.

Pacific Plus PTA Catheter

Company Medtronic, Inc.
Phone (888) 283-7868
Web www.peripheral. medtronicendovascular.com

Key Features

  • 90-cm, 130-cm, and 180-cm shaft lengths
  • Compatible with 0.014-inch and 0.018-inch guidewires
  • Can be used with 4-F and 5-F sheaths
  • Fast deflation
  • Hydrophilic coating for improved crossability

Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) recently received FDA clearance for the Pacific Plus PTA (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty) catheter, which is indicated for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions in a variety of locations within the peripheral vasculature, including the renal, iliac, iliofemoral, femoral, popliteal, and infrapopliteal arteries. It features a hydrophilic coating for improved crossability and enables fast deflation, which may shorten procedure time. Spanning a broad size matrix, the Pacific Plus PTA catheter is an over-the-wire peripheral balloon that is compatible with both 0.014-inch and 0.018-inch guidewires and 4-F or 5-F introducer sheaths. It is available in shaft lengths of 90, 130, and 180 cm and catheter lengths ranging from 20 to 120 mm for balloon diameters 2 to 7 mm, with a 150-mm catheter also available on balloon diameters of 2 to 3.5 mm. The new device complements the existing Pacific Xtreme PTA catheter, which is available in lengths ranging from 150 to 300 mm for a variety of balloon diameters.

Endurant II AUI Stent Graft System

Company Medtronic, Inc.
Phone (888) 283-7868
Web www.aortic.medtronicendovascular.com

Key Features

  • FDA-approved AUI device
  • Low-profile, hydrocoated delivery system
  • Tip capture for accurate deployment
  • Compatible with all aortic limbs and cuffs

Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) announced the FDA approval of the Endurant II AUI (aorto-uni-iliac) stent graft system, which is the only FDA-approved device of its kind with a primary indication for endovascular treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic or aortoiliac aneurysms in patients whose anatomy does not allow for the use of a bifurcated device. Whereas use of a bifurcated device requires access to both iliac arteries, the AUI device requires access to only one. As with the bifurcated Endurant II AAA stent graft, distinguishing features of the Endurant II AUI stent graft include a low delivery profile, tip capture for easy and accurate deployment, and compatibility with contralateral iliac limbs and aortic extensions.

Revive SE Clot Removal Device

Company Codman Neuro
Phone (508) 880-8100
Web www.codman.com

Key Features

  • Self-expanding clot removal device
  • Nitinol basket designed to ease navigation
  • Closed-ended soft distal tip
  • Narrow and tall strut design

Codman Neuro (Raynham, MA), part of DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson and a division of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., recently received CE Mark approval for Revive SE, a next-generation self-expanding clot removal device for use in treating acute ischemic stroke. The device's nitinol basket is designed to ease navigation through small and tortuous blood vessels and arteries in the cerebral vasculature and enable rapid restoration of blood flow to the brain during an acute ischemic stroke. Revive SE features a closed-ended soft distal tip to capture clots and large fragments with minimal trauma and a narrow and tall strut design to better penetrate and engage with blood clots. The new strut design also lowers the force required to track the device through a 0.021-inch microcatheter. “Ease of navigation is extremely important during a procedure like thrombectomy in terms of safety and time savings,” said Martin Bendszus, MD, of the Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg in Germany. “The new device offers good navigation, and based on procedures with its predecessor device, provides consistently good recanalization rates and outcomes.”