Microvena Corp.
Division of Medtronic PLC
www.microvena.com
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ev3: The Virtues of Focus
Six years ago, ev3 was launched aiming at a broad attach on cardio- and endovascular disease. But the company found including coronary devices in its mix too difficult and too costly. Instead, the company shifted directions three years ago, with a focus on peripheral and neurovascular disease. In the process, it hopes to address what it calls "the innovation gap," the lack of devices developed specifically for the PVD and neurovascular specialists.
Guidant Pioneers Stents' Move North to Carotids
Stenting moves from coronaries to carotids to do for stroke what these devices did for heart attacks. This new endovascular approach has surgeons switching, not fighting.
Embolic Protection: Better Outcomes Not Enough
For 20 years, interventional cardiologists denied the need for embolic protection devices, considering embolic events to generally be the infrequent results of poor technique. Nevertheless, recent data has revealed embolization as a potentially serious and relatively common event during percutaneous coronary interventions. While embolic protection devices have been shown to dramatically reduce embolic complications, physician adoption is slow. Several companies are developing different approaches to protect against embolization, recognizing that better patient data alone isn't enough to convince interventionalists to employ these devices.
Kerberos Proximal Solutions Inc.
Kerberos' KEPTembolic protection catheter system uses an alternating rinsing and aspiration action -- "Rinspiration" -- to capture and retrieve more embolic mass, including small particles.
Company Information
- Industry
- Medical Devices
- Therapeutic Areas
- Alias(es)
- Ownership
- Private
- Headquarters
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Worldwide
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North America
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USA
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USA
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North America
- Parent & Subsidiaries
- Medtronic PLC
- Senior Management
- Rudy Mazzocchi, Pres.
- Contact Info
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Microvena Corp.
Phone: (612) 777-6700
1861 Buerkle Rd.
Whitebear Lake, MN 55110
USA
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