ORBUSNEICH ADDS SAPHHIRE NC CORONARY DILATATION CATHETER.OrbusNeich has announced the addition of the Sapphire NC coronary dilatation catheter dilatation catheter Cardiology A device used when balloon dilating a stenosed coronary artery or bypass graft stenosis to improve myocardial perfusion. See Balloon angioplasty. to its product line-up with the receipt of CE Mark approval. A non-compliant balloon, Sapphire NC has controlled growth of only 0.6% per atmosphere of pressure over the working pressure range for controlled dilatations. Furthermore, it has a high 22 atmospheres rated burst pressure for confident treatment of tough, calcified Calcified Hardened by calcium deposits. Mentioned in: Heart Valve Repair lesions and for post-stent dilatation dilatation /dil·a·ta·tion/ (dil?ah-ta´shun) 1. the condition, as of an orifice or tubular structure, of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions. 2. the act of dilating or stretching. . "Sapphire NC is a reliable, easily deliverable, high performance balloon with assured results when used during percutaneous coronary intervention Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), commonly known as coronary angioplasty or simply angioplasty, is a therapeutic procedure to treat the stenotic (narrowed) coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary heart disease. ," said Huay-Cheem Tan, M.D., of National University Hospital in Singapore. Sapphire NC combines advanced precision and material engineering technologies to provide optimum reliability and deliverability. The balloon catheter's HIST interj. 1. Hush; be silent; - a signal for silence. (HIgh Speed Tracking) tip enables flexible tracking along the guidewire, while OrbusNeich's TIFO (Tight Fold) processing results in a slender profile for enhanced crossability through tight lesions. Sapphire NC is available in a wide range of sizes for precise dilatation to match popular stent lengths. OrbusNeich designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical devices for the treatment of vascular diseases vascular diseases, n.pl diseases of the peripheral circulatory system. . The company's product portfolio includes the Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM), an antibody-coated device that is the first-ever stent to capture a patient's endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) to accelerate the natural healing natural healing Alternative healing Alternative health Any healing technique that may be rooted in supernaturalist methods. See Absent healing, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Alexander technique, Applied kinesiology, Ayurvedic medicine, Bioenergetics, Cayce therapies, process following placement. Other products are stents, balloons and guiding catheters marketed under the names of Blazer(TM), R stent(TM), Scoreflex(TM), Sapphire(TM), Avita(TM), Avita HP(TM), SafeCut(TM), Lumina(TM) and Saffron. As a global company, OrbusNeich is headquartered in Hong Kong and has operations in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.OrbusNeich.com or call 212/845-4271. |
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