Page/Link: Page URL: HTML link: The Free Library. Retrieved Jan 22 2019 from Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 This Unique Multi-Exchange Platform Offers the Advantages of Precision, Control and Easy Exchange of Guidewires and Catheters Medtronic, Inc. Shellock FG, Shellock VJ. MRI Safety of cardiovascular implants: evaluation of ferromagnetism, heating, and artifacts. Driver Stent Including Driver RX, Driver MXII MicroDriver, MicroDriver MXII. Conditional 5: 3: Coils, Filters, Stents, and Grafts: Endeavor Resolute Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), today announced the limited market release of its innovative S7 Zipper MX Coronary Stent System. This breakthrough system, which brings together the first ever Multi-Exchange Platform and Medtronic's leading modular stent technology, will be available in December for shipment to physicians throughout the U.S. Zipper MX Technology offers interventional cardiologists the benefits--without the limitations--of current delivery platforms, which are known as 'over-the-wire and 'rapid-exchange or single-operator systems.' Over the next several months, the new Zipper Delivery Platform will be launched in the U.S. And globally with a variety of catheter options carrying balloons and coronary stents. 'We are very excited to be able to offer physicians this unique and versatile technology, as it complements the increasing sophistication of minimally invasive procedures for treating coronary artery disease, ' said William A. Hawkins, Senior Vice President and President, Medtronic Vascular. 'The launch of our S7 stent with Zipper Technology marks an important milestone in our strategy to build a drug-eluting stent program that integrates an innovative delivery system, an advanced stent, an effective drug and a polymer coating that controls the release of the drug into the vessel wall.' The Medtronic Zipper Delivery Platform offers significant benefits over competitive technologies because it facilitates easy, quick exchange of wires and catheters during a coronary angioplasty or stenting procedure, without the physician needing an assistant. During this procedure, the interventional cardiologist advances a balloon catheter or stent system to the site of the coronary lesion. 100 canciones romanticas en espanol. When maneuvered into position at a lesion site, the balloon or stent is deployed to push plaque aside and widen the blood pathway. Fundamental to the Zipper Technology is a unique and proprietary 'Z-component' seated in the channel of the catheter that delivers the guidewire. As the physician advances the catheter along the wire, the Z-component temporarily separates a small portion of the guidewire channel outside the body to feed the guidewire into the catheter. The separation automatically closes behind. The entire portion of the catheter inside the body rides and surrounds the guidewire, giving the interventional cardiologist control or 'pushability' in reaching the coronary lesion. Twelve clinical sites known for innovation in the field of interventional cardiology were selected to debut Medtronic's S7 Zipper MX Coronary Stent System. Dean Kereiakes, M.D. Of the Ohio Heart Health Center at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, explained, 'Most physicians want the best of both worlds and with the S7 with Zipper Technology, we have just that. A high performance stent with superior scaffolding qualities is combined with an innovative system that combines the best attributes of both single-operator and over-the-wire systems.' Barry Rutherford, M.D., of Kansas City's St. Luke's Hospital, who performed a live case at this past September's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in Washington, DC, commented, 'As a predominant over-the-wire user, I would use the Zipper Delivery Platform because of its short wire compatibility. It is very convenient to be able to exchange wires and catheters without assistance.' Advantages of the S7 Zipper MX Coronary Stent System No other coronary stent system offers both Medtronic's unique Multi-Exchange delivery platform and revolutionary modular stent. Zipper Technology: -- Allows use of a short guidewire. Traditional over-the-wire systems require long guidewires (300 cm or 10 feet long) and a second person, usually a nurse or technician, to help maintain sterility during insertion, manipulation and removal. Zipper Technology provides this short-wire compatibility without sacrificing the flexibility and precise control needed as the interventional cardiologist maneuvers through challenging cardiac anatomy. -- Allows guidewires to be changed without removing the catheter from the patient's body. This option is unavailable with rapid-exchange technologies.
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