New Products In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Recent PMA approvals include Edwards Lifesciences’ Sapien transcatheter aortic heart valve expanded indication, Bolton Medical’s Relay thoracic stent graft and Paradigm Spine’s Coflex interlaminar stabilization device.
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