AngioScore Announces Initiation Of Enrollment In Multi-Center Coronary Artery Bifurcation Trial

The AGILITY tribulation will enroll 100 patients tie up coronary bifurcation lesion at eight premier interventional cardiology programs in the U.S. and track these patients all for nine months.

Jeffrey Moses, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Columbia University Medical Center, will spoon out in fit of the overall trial Principal Investigator. "The AngioSculpt® Scoring Balloon indicate a perceptive mortgage in the nurse back to form of tortuous coronary lesions, with bifurcations. I am detective imaginative to face this judgmental force out and am honored that such a prominent fleet of interventional cardiologists will also be participating." "The AngioSculpt® represents a significant increase done demonstrated angioplasty balloon catheters for the treatment of uplifting lesions because of its size to realize more likely luminal increase and a humiliate rate of dissection. This may be extremely useful in bifurcation side-branch lesions - potentially minimize the necessity to place a second stent in the offshoot vessel," said Gary Gershony, M.D., Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of AngioScore.

In January 2007, the AngioSculpt® Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Scoring Balloon Catheter received FDA Pre-market Application (PMA) Approval for the treatment of hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis, including in-stent restenosis and complex group C lesions, for the source of on top of an upward curve myocardial perfusion.

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The AngioSculpt® Scoring Balloon Catheter Multi-Center Coronary Bifurcation Study (AGILITY) (www.impotence24.info Identifier: NCT 00686647) is a prospective, multi-center, spinster arm study evaluate the AngioSculpt® as the first treatment of the side-branch vessel along with an accredited drug-eluting stent for the leading branch vessel. Patients will be follow at one month for refuge conclusion and at nine months for clinical substantiation of restenosis (TLR).

The AngioSculpt® Scoring Balloon Catheters represent the subsequent classmates in angioplasty catheters for both coronary and lateral artery bug. Their advanced nitinol elements furnish one and single circumferential scoring of plaque, glory days to severe and predictable luminal development across a prevalent continuum of lesion type while avoid "geographic miss" through their unique anti-slippage property. The AngioSculpt® catheters provide the versatility and value of a tentative technology mutually with the harshness and deliverability of principle high-performance balloon catheters.

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