The market for tissue engineering and cell therapy products is set to grow to nearly $32 billion by 2018. This figure includes bioengineered products that are themselves cells or are actively stimulating cell growth or regeneration, products that often represent a combination of biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical technologies. The largest segment in the overall [...]
Technologies that destroy tissue for therapeutic benefit are collectively known as ablation technologies. By a wide range of energy types or other mechanical methods, they are used to destroy, excise or otherwise treat tissue for therapeutic benefit, from the radiation of cancer, the destruction of the endometrial lining of the uterus causing endometriosis, the creation [...]
The applications of energy-based technologies for the ablative treatment of tissue are numerous and diverse as a result of the effectiveness of these technologies — which vary widely by energy type (electrosurgery, radiosurgery, gamma knife, brachytherapy, cryogenic therapy, fluidjet/hydrotherapy, microwave ablation, radiofrequency ablation, laser, thermal ablation, and ultrasonic ablation) — and their integration into routine [...]
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 09, 2010 – The practice of surgery has long employed energy-based technologies to excise, cut, ablate, cauterize, destroy or otherwise manipulate tissue to produce therapeutic results. Various energy modalities — from cryotherapy to microwave to radiofrequency to ultrasound to radiation and others — have proven their ability to effect healthy or diseased tissue [...]
Energy-based ablation devices are powered by a wide variety of sources, resulting in a plethora of devices. These include electrical, radiation, light, radiofrequency, ultrasound, cryotherapy, thermal, microwave and hydromechanical. This array of technology enables the physician, with the appropriate device in hand, to pinpoint and destroy almost any kind of tissue, almost anywhere in the [...]
The applications of surgical sealants, glues and wound closure are many and are rapidly multiplying as more credible data is generated on each application and as physicians gain comfort in working with the products in routine clinical practice. Below is a sample of surgical sealants, glues and wound closure applications by clinical area: Source: [...]
The use of autologous, allogeneic and xenogeneic cells and tissues, the use of biomaterials, cell scaffolding and other approaches to tissue repair and regeneration has become part of arsenal of a number of clinical specialties, with high caseload and market revenue in these areas. In particular, orthopedics and skin applications are well established. And, while [...]
Our research into the products, technologies, companies and markets for tissue engineering and cell therapy has revealed that the 2009 market was at $6.9 billion. The market has grown dramatically, in commercialized products and company activity, over the past few years and is on an accelerated growth rate as technology hurdles are overcome and clinical [...]
The development of less invasive surgical procedures continues to move toward procedures that may be "incisionless" or only require small perforations to accommodate surgical tools. Principal among approaches that are under evaluation are NOTES procedures — Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery — in which access is provided endoscopically via the mouth or vagina. NOTES has [...]
(Report updated. See 2010 report on Ablation Technologies Worldwide.) The global market for medical devices is $200 billion opportunity and at least 13% of this market involves products that provide the controlled application of energy to tissue. The segment is dominated by high technology products ranging from devices that can heat and cool tissue over [...]
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