Does the Frontiers in Cryoablation seminar provide a forum for presenting capabilities of surgical cryoablation? Will physicians collaborate on the development of minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of atrial fibrillation? Will the application of cryoablation expand using minimal access and stand-alone procedures?
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…ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, today announced the first Frontiers in Cryoablation Symposium to be held at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting in San Diego. The symposium is the first in a series of meetings intended to further the evolution and direction for cryoablation therapy, a treatment for atrial fibrillation. Dr. James L. Cox, inventor of the Maze procedure and Medical Director for ATS Medical, will lead the symposia series. The program will include a preeminent faculty of cardiac surgeons reporting on current techniques, robotics, and the future of minimally invasive cryoablation utilizing the ATS CryoMaze(TM) Surgical Ablation System.
This first symposium, titled “Current Techniques, Robotics and the Future of Minimally Invasive Cryoablation” is sponsored collaboratively by ATS Medical and Intuitive Surgical, the makers of the da Vinci(R) Surgical System (Nasdaq: ISRG). The symposium follows the recent market release of Intuitive Surgical’s Endowrist Cardiac Probe Grasper — a device specifically designed to assist the da Vinci System in manipulating ATS CryoMaze Surgical Ablation Probes to complete the Cox Maze III procedure…
The treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) is believed to be the largest untapped opportunity in medical devices with an estimated multi-billion dollar market potential. In contrast, the current surgical market size is estimated at $121 million in 2007. Based on initial clinical results, management believes that only ATS has the technology — the ATS CryoMaze Surgical Ablation System — proven to yield clinical results similar to the conventional cut-and-sew Cox Maze III procedure, but with an approach involving small incisions. As such, the surgical AF business is expected to be a key growth opportunity for ATS in 2008 and beyond…
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