The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that Boston Scientific Corporation is updating use instructions for POLARx and POLARx FIT Cryoablation Balloon Catheters, emphasizing the risk ...
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) has issued a correction recall for its POLARx and POLARx FIT cryoablation balloon catheters over concerns that they may cause serious esophageal injuries or even death.
sbumed.org Background and significance We describe a method by which to efficiently and atraumatically achieve distal positioning of a flexible guiding catheter beyond extreme cervical tortuosity ...
A 7-Fr 6-mm-tip CRYO catheter (Freezor Xtra, Cryocath Technologies) was used. The procedure was performed under local anesthesia (2% lignocaine) without sedation. Cryomapping was carried out at ...
Guided by fluoroscopy and intracardiac echocardiography, a balloon is advanced into ... Compared with other ablation techniques, catheter cryoablation may facilitate stable tissue targeting ...
Objective Reports of the first detachable vascular balloon catheter can be traced back to the early 1960s. The detachable balloon catheter was a revolutionary invention that could be used to ...