New Products In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
New AneuRx delivery system: Medtronic launches Jan. 10 its AneurX AAAdvantage endovascular stent graft on a new delivery system called Xcelerant Hydro. Compared with the previous Xcelerant system with which AneuRx AAAdvantage launched in the U.S. in March 2006, Xcelerant Hydro has a hydrophilic coating to reduce friction and facilitate navigation of small and tortuous arteries. Medtronic completed a PMA submission for another abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, Talent Abdominal, in November (1"The Gray Sheet" Dec. 10, 2007, p. 6). That device's delivery system is called CoilTrac
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