AngioScore Launches 100-mm AngioSculpt Balloon Catheters

September 6, 2011—AngioScore, Inc. (Fremont, CA) announced the launch of the 100-mm AngioSculpt percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) scoring balloon catheters for the treatment of peripheral artery disease. The devices have received US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the dilatation of lesions in the iliac, femoral, iliofemoral, popliteal, infrapopliteal, and renal arteries, as well as for the treatment of obstructive lesions of native or synthetic arteriovenous dialysis fistulae. The new PTA catheters are not labeled for use in the coronary or neurovasculature, the company advised.

According to AngioScore, the new AngioSculpt PTA catheters incorporate longer 100-mm scoring balloons in diameters of 4, 5, and 6 mm and are expected to be particularly useful in treating above-the-knee lesions that are typically encountered in the treatment of complex peripheral artery disease. The devices feature nitinol scoring elements that provide circumferential scoring of plaque, allowing for precise and predictable luminal enlargement across a wide range of lesion types, and have antislippage properties to avoid geographic miss.

“These longer AngioSculpt scoring balloon catheters provide physicians with important new devices for the treatment of complex lesions because of their ability to achieve more predictable luminal expansion and a very low rate of dissection, potentially minimizing the need to perform adjunctive stenting,” commented Venkatesh Ramaiah, MD.