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EndoRefix Trial Suspended > Lombard Medical Technologies > U.S. clinical trial for its EndoRefix endostapling device > New Stent Graft Fixation Device > Stent Stapler Closer to Launch

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

What are the limited European launch results that followed on the conclusion of a 10-patient clinical study? Is the clinical utility of EndoRefix to serve as an adjunctive procedure to endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysms stent-graft repair? Will Medtronic improve the proximal fixation of the Aneurx stent-graft with the technology?

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Olympus > First-Half Profit Falls 89% > Gyrus Costs > Endoscopes Married With Energy Device For Tissue Take Down And Fusion > Olympus Expands Medical Systems Business In Minimally Invasive Systems

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Is the world’s biggest maker of endoscopes with 70% of the global market now targeting the disposable device segment? Is the device market for Minimally invasive surgeries in greater demand as societies around the world age? Is the Gyrus PK System generator and instruments ability to cut and coagulate across a wide range of tissue […]

Filed in Gyrus Group, Energy Device, Tissue Take Down, Olympus Corporation, Endoscopic Laparoscopic And Vaginal Procedures, Laparoscopy, Hybrid and endoluminal treatment options, Fusion, Olympus Medical Systems Business, Hybrid Endoluminal Endolumenal Laparoscopic MIS, Endoscopy Endoscopic, Natural Orifice Transgastric Endoscopic Surgery NOTES, NOTES & NEWS, Minimally Invasive Surgery MIS, Laparoscopy Laparoscopic, Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES, flexible transgasric peritoneoscopy, NOTES fundoplication procedure, Laparoscopic or open surgical procedures, Flexible endoscope, No-scar abdominal surgery, Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, NOTES, Minimally invasive surgery techniques, Natural orifices such as the mouth rectum or vagina, Minimally invasive approach, GERD, Flexible scope, Laparoscopic tools, NOTES techniques, Flexible endoscopes that have working channels, No Scar Surgery | Comments Off

Aneurysm repair AAA > Higher death risk > Linked to stent-graft > Subject of FDA advisory

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Does additional, longer-term data suggest that aneurysm-related mortality continues to increase after three years post-implant? How is the new study result with much higher aneurysm-related mortality reaching 1.3 percent by year four and 1.5 percent by year five influencing treatment choices?

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Patients receiving a stent-graft from Fridley-based Medtronic to treat abdominal aortic […]

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Laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies remain far less common > 538,000 hysterectomies performed for benign disease> Most hysterectomies still invasive procedures

Friday, October 31, 2008

Is vaginal hysterectomy still considered to be associated with the lowest morbidity? Will the rate of laparoscopic hysterectomies continue to increase? Is a vaginal hysterectomy chosen over a laparoscopic or abdominal approach inspite of the fact that laparoscopic surgery is associated with shorter length of stay, faster recovery and fewer postoperative infections?

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Filed in Invasive procedures, Laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies, Endoscopic Laparoscopic And Vaginal Procedures, Hysterectomy for a noncancerous condition, Abdominal hysterectomies, Endoscopy Endoscopic, Laparoscopy Laparoscopic, Minimally Invasive Surgery MIS, Clinical practice, Compared with laparoscopy, Open surgical repair, Minimally invasive surgery techniques, Less-invasive, Open conversion rates, Laparoscopic tools, Laparoscopic technique, Minimally invasive approach, Laparoscopic or open surgical procedures | Comments Off

Bard EndoCinch endosuturing system > Long-term outcome > Endoluminal gastroplication > Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease > Effect of a second procedure > Gastroenterology > University Hospital of North Norway

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Does the development of innovative NOTES devices for improving the function of the lower esophageal sphincter LES continue? What role will Polymethylmethacrylate PMMA beads play in the thicken of the tissue and the strengthen of the LES when the microbeads are implanted in local tissue adjacent to the LES? Will the promising work in Endoscopic […]

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