Cook Medical and Surmodics have announced an agreement in which Cook Medical will distribute two new Surmodics products, hydrophilic percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) balloon catheters that can be used over 0.014-inch and a 0.018-inch wire guides. “We have had a long relationship with Surmodics, utilising its innovative surface modification technology with many of our [...]
Surmodics has announced that the FDA has designated its Sundance sirolimus-coated balloon (SCB) catheter as a Breakthrough Device under the agency’s Breakthrough Devices programme. The FDA has already designed the sirolimus devices MagicTouch (Concept Medical), Virtue sirolimus-eluting balloon (Orchestra BioMed), and Selution sustained limus release (MedAlliance) as Breakthrough Devices. The Sundance SCB has been [...]
MagicTouch AVF Concept Medical has received the CE mark for its MagicTouch sirolimus-coated percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) catheter, making the catheter the first commercially available sirolimus device for peripheral arterial disease. The MagicTouch catheter has also been approved for treating erectile dysfunction (MagicTouch ED) and for managing arteriovenous fistula complications (MagicTouch AVF). [...]