Avvio Medical, Inc., a clinical-stage medical device company developing next-generation kidney stone treatment technologies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

LithiX™ HC-IVL is a novel lithotripsy system designed to facilitate treatment of heart disease exacerbated by the presence of calcium within ...

The device uses hertz contact stress energy to break down calcium deposits. The National Heart Centre Singapore has performed an intravascular lithotripsy procedure using the LithiX Hertz Contact IVL ...

Results from the first randomized controlled trial to directly compare the safety and efficacy of cutting balloon (CB) angioplasty to intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) prior to drug-eluting stent (DES) ...

On July 30, 2008, CMS issued its final rule regarding the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). CMS elected to allow healthcare service providers until October 1, 2009 to restructure ...

During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens. It's better for the patient if urologists ...

Results of the Shortcut study, presented last week at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco, ...

Avvio Medical, Inc., a clinical-stage medical device company developing next-generation kidney stone treatment technologies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...