What is PTCA Balloon Catheter?
The Glider™ PTCA Balloon Catheter is a semi-compliant balloon with skived tip and low entry profile. The tip design, coupled with hydrophilic coating and an innovative, torqueable shaft, allows for precise tip orientation for use in crossing complex lesions and stent struts.
What is an Emerge stent?
The Emerge catheter is a next-generation pre-dilatation balloon catheter designed specifically to offer exceptional deliverability for physicians to address challenging lesions in coronary arteries. Both monorail and over-the-wire (OTW) options are available.
Is emerge stent drug eluting?
The Emerge Over-The-Wire and Emerge Monorail PTCA Dilatation Catheters (balloon models 2.00-4.00 mm) are also indicated for the post-delivery expansion of balloon expandable stents (bare metal and drug-eluting).
What is meant by PTCA?
PTCA, or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, is a minimally invasive procedure that opens blocked coronary arteries to improve blood flow to the heart muscle.
What is balloon crossing profile?
Crossing profile is defined as the maximum diameter found between the proximal end of the balloon and the distal tip of the catheter.
How is the balloon inflated during angioplasty?
Interventional cardiologists perform angioplasty, which opens narrowed arteries. They use a long, thin tube called a catheter that has a small balloon on its tip. They inflate the balloon at the blockage site in the artery to flatten or compress the plaque against the artery wall.
What is the difference between PCI and PTCA?
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) also called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive procedure to open blocked or stenosed coronary arteries allowing unobstructed blood flow to the myocardium.
What is post PTCA?
What is the diameter of a PTA balloon catheter?
Product Overview ® PTA Balloon Catheter Balloon diameter 1.5 / 2.0 / 2.5 / 3.0 / 3.5 and 4.0 mm Balloon working length 8 mm Inner diameter 0,0165‘‘ Outer diameter (dist./ prox.) 2.7 F / 3.7 F Usable length 150 cm Tip length 10 mm Tip markers / Balloon markers 1 / 2 15 NeuroSpeed® PTA Balloon Catheter
What is an emerge PTCA catheter?
EMERGE PTCA Dilatation Catheter. EMERGE Catheter combines the best of Boston Scientific balloon technologies to offer exceptional deliverability with an ultra-low profile, for a predilatation balloon catheter designed to navigate and cross even the most challenging lesions with unprecedented ease.
What is a Class II special controls guidance for PTCA catheters?
Definition excerpted from FDA Guidance document titled, Class II Special Controls Guidance Document for Certain Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Catheters. Emerge 0.026” crossing profile measured on 1.2 x 15 mm (n=5) and 1.5 x 15 mm (n = 5) products.
What is a crossing profile on a balloon catheter?
‡Crossing profile is defined as the maximum diameter found between the proximal end of the balloon and the distal tip of the catheter. Definition excerpted from FDA Guidance document titled, Class II Special Controls Guidance Document for Certain Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Catheters.