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Highlights from the CX 2019 session, Paclitaxel: The last word
The 2019 Charing Cross Symposium (CX; 15–18 April, London, UK) featured an in-depth highlight session on the paclitaxel controversy. With the US FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel Meeting set to take place [...]
With CoveredSeal, Valiant Navion™ offers physicians the “best of both worlds” for TEVAR procedures
Paul Hayes (Cambridge, UK), Frank Arko (Charlotte, USA) and Fabio Verzini (Turin, Italy) discuss the Valiant Navion™ (Medtronic) live thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) case at Charing Cross 2019, which demonstrated the use of [...]
With focal dissection repair, the Tack Endovascular System “returns control to the operator”
Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand) and Peter Schneider (San Francisco, USA) discuss the Tack Endovascular System (Intact Vascular) and its impact on below the knee and above the knee procedures at the Charing Cross [...]
Durability of endovascular aneurysm repair and the NICE guidelines
A CX 2019 special session highlighted the durability of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and the implications of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) draft aortic aneurysm guidelines. The final publication [...]
Optimising surveillance and reintervention strategy following elective EVAR
Roger Greenhalgh (London, UK) interviewed Fiona Rohlffs (Hamburg, Germany), Maarit Venermo (Helsinki, Finland) and David Epstein (Granada, Spain) at the CX Live studio after their ‘Optimising surveillance and reintervention strategy following elective EVAR’ session. [...]
Medical device industry leaders call for three big changes to “devastating” EU MDR legislation
Industry leaders say approximately 50% of all medical devices will be withdrawn from the market; around 30% of manufacturers will not survive and patients might be at risk as a result of the European [...]