FDA Approves TherOx’s SuperSaturated Oxygen Heart Attack Therapy
Executive Summary
Clinical trials have shown that SuperSaturated Oxygen Therapy (SSO2 Therapy) reduces the size of myocardial infarcts in the regions of the heart-muscle perfused by the patient’s left anterior descending coronary artery immediately following stenting.
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