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February 24, 2016
Lombard Medical Announces First Commercial Use of Altura EVAR Device in Germany
February 24, 2016—Lombard Medical, Inc. announced that the first commercial procedure in Germany using the company’s new Altura endovascular stent graft for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms was successfully completed at the Saarland University Medical Center–Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. The hospital is a major EVAR center in Homburg in the state of Saarland, Germany.
The company recently announced the first commercial procedure using the Altura device, which was launched at LINC 2016, the Leipzig Interventional Course held January 26–29 in Leipzig, Germany. An international rollout is planned in late 2016.
In Lombard Medical’s press release, Alexander Massmann, MD, of Saarland University Medical Center, commented, “We are honored to be the first German center to complete an Altura EVAR procedure following last month’s LINC meeting and have additional cases scheduled in the coming weeks. We found the new Altura stent graft from Lombard easy to use, with a minimal amount of steps required to implant the stent graft. We were especially impressed with the 14-F ultra-low profile design and the elimination of the gate cannulation step, which can be a real procedural time saver.”
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