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: MedMarket Diligence, LLC; [...]
With the FDA's approval of Medtronic's Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve and Ensemble Delivery System (see link), another step has been made toward eliminating traditional surgery — at least that's the idea. The ability to implant a valve via a percutaneous procedure advances the art of less invasive intervention in ways akin to laparoscopic surgery, albeit at [...]
Until the advent of coronary stents, patients with cardiovascular blockages had little choice but to either keep a close eye on their disease (“watchful waiting” with or without accompanying pharmaceutical therapy) or undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). When angioplasty was developed by Andreas Gruentzig in 1977, patients were presented with the option to undergo [...]
Because of the invasive nature of cardiac surgery, medical therapy will always be the preferred treatment protocol favored by many clinicians. To that end, researchers and pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to explore methods of treating atherosclerosis that will render surgery unnecessary.
For instance, researchers at the Medical University of Graz in Austria announced in February 2009 (Journal [...]
Below are select technologies under development at recently identified medtechs startups:
Scaffold for regeneration of functional bone tissues.
Autologous, adipose-derived stem cells for treatment of traumatic brain injury and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Device company developing technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of chemotherapy.
Developing stem cell therapies.
Devices to locate and protect nerves during surgery.
Minimally invasive (endoscopic) spine [...]
High-strength surgical glue products were approved for topical closure applications in the United States in the late 1990s. Outside the United States, high-strength glues and adhesives have been approved in some countries for a number of years and have built up a track record of use in internal surgery. With time, high-strength glues will come [...]
In medical technology development, there are perennially long-shot technologies being pursued for their ability to make an order of magnitude shift in treatment. This, of course, seems to be the thrust of a majority of biotechnology development, which seeks to provide cures where only palliative treatments (drug or device) currently exist, such as in gene [...]
As an exercise, I found it worthwhile to map out the various options available or under development for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
We assess the emphasis of current, near-term and future possible options for treatment in the color-coded scheme:
Bold, black: Current, dominant treatment options
Green: Near term options with potential to gain significant caseload
Red: Long-term [...]
The areas of greatest opportunity in medtech are those which have already demonstrated they have plenty of upside, even if a robust number of competitors have already begun targeting them.
Areas of the strongest market growth in medical technologies that we are seeing have emerged out of the major segments we have tracked in recent analyses. [...]
Because of the invasive nature of cardiac surgery, medical therapy will always be the preferred treatment protocol favored by many clinicians. To that end, device and pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to explore methods of treating atherosclerosis that will render surgery unnecessary.
For instance, researchers at the Medical University of Graz in Austria announced in February 2009 [...]
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