Earlier today, Sensome announced positive results from its first-in-human CLOT OUT clinical trial evaluating the safety and performance of the company’s Clotild smart guidewire system used during mechanical thrombectomy treatments for ischaemic stroke. The results showed that the technology met all primary safety and performance endpoints in the trial. There were no serious adverse events […]

XCath has announced the successful completion a “first-of-its-kind” live telerobotic trial for stroke treatment, which took place between Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Seoul, South Korea at Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week (ADGHW; 13–15 May, Abu Dhabi, UAE). In the live demonstration, Vitor Mendes Pereira (St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada) performed a mechanical thrombectomy procedure […]

Rapid Medical has announced what it claims is the first successful robotic thrombectomy, in Medellín, Colombia. Two patients were treated with the robotic Tigertriever—an endovascular thrombectomy device that adapts autonomously to the patient’s anatomy. “Automating stroke procedures is a significant advancement for the medical field,” said Boris Pabón (Angiosur, Medellín, Colombia), the surgeon who performed […]

Route 92 Medical has today announced receipt of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the FreeClimb 54 reperfusion system, comprised of the FreeClimb 54 aspiration catheter paired with a Tenzing 5 delivery catheter. This new system is part of a growing portfolio of neurovascular devices from Route 92, designed to work harmoniously […]

The entirety of the results from the ENRICH trial evaluating the early surgical removal of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). As stated in a Nico Corporation press release, ENRICH demonstrated early minimally invasive parafascicular surgery (MIPS) intervention using the company’s BrainPath and Myriad technologies to treat ICH […]