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With the explosion of new interventional aneurysm devices under development, especially flow diverters, the agency asks its Neurological Devices Panel to discuss appropriate trial designs, patient follow-up and other study details for this device category during an April 17 meeting.

The agency's Neurological Devices Panel will provide recommendations on study design and data analysis issues for flow diverter devices for aneurysms in April.