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 [...]
A growing body of clinical evidence is demonstrating the feasibility of an abdominal surgical procedure technique that is even less invasive than laparoscopic surgery (even SSL, or single site laparoscopy), and that is "NOTES", or natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery. In particular, Ethicon Endo-surgery presented data at the 2009 Digestive Disease Week conference that [...]
From MedMarket Diligence Report #S175, "Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion Markets, 2009-2013." In cardiovascular and spine surgery, multi-billion dollar markets were created from entirely new procedures between 1980 and 2000, with subsequent segmentation in later years particularly as new minimally invasive procedures were developed towards the end of the 20th century. For [...]
The formation of medical technology companies has proceeded at a steady pace over the past few years. These largely device-intensive companies are pursuing a range of clinical applications that is progressively more diverse, encompassing materials science, application of various hybrid technologies and, ultimately, often dissolving boundaries between devices, diagnostics, biotech, pharma and other traditional product [...]
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