Medical Devices

Novel coated balloon presented as treatment for stenosed arteries

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, December 31st, 2006

B. Braun has signed a licensing agreement on the further development and marketing of a new technology for the treatment of stenosis of the coronary arteries using a novel coated balloon catheter coated with paclitaxel.

Dr. Bruno Scheller, a cardiologist at Saarland University Hospital, presented the results of the "Paccocath" pilot study at this year's annual conference of the American Heart Association in Chicago. The data was published in parallel in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a research cooperation with Ulrich Speck at Charite hospital, Berlin, a novel coated balloon catheter was developed which, like some drug-eluting stents, is coated with the...

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Source: Medical Device Law Weekly (2006-12-31)

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