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Spectranetics Introduces First Advanced System for Simulation of Laser Assisted Lead Extractions | Business Wire

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HEART RHYTHM 2010 – Spectranetics Corporation (NASDAQ:SPNC) today announced it will showcase a new advanced Laser Lead Extraction Simulation system at the Heart Rhythm Society ...
Business Wire

Spectranetics Announces Reimbursement Approval for Laser-Assisted Lead Extraction in Japan

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectranetics Corporation (Nasdaq:SPNC) today announced that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan has approved product reimbursement to ...
Medscape

A Good Report Card for Laser-Assisted Pacemaker/ICD Lead Extraction

February 5, 2010 (Washington, DC) — Transvenous extraction of implanted-device leads using a laser catheter is nearly always completed successfully and poses little risk of death or other major ...
Medscape

Mortality Risk Hinted for Laser Extraction of Old Pacemaker, Defibrillator Leads

ORLANDO, Florida — Transvenous extraction of unused pacemaker or defibrillator leads poses a higher risk for death as an acute complication when it's performed by using a laser-based extraction sheath ...
Stockhouse

Spectranetics Announces FDA Submission of Bridge(TM) Occlusion Balloon for Lead Extraction Procedures

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Spectranetics Corporation (NASDAQ:SPNC) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket Notification 510(k) submission ...
Healio

Laser lead removal safe for older patients

Laser lead extraction is a safe and effective treatment method in octogenarian patients with multiple comorbidities, new data suggest. For a recent study, patients who underwent laser lead extraction ...
The Hindu

CMC Vellore performs rare laser extraction of pacemaker leads

The Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing team at the Christian Medical College (CMC) here has successfully performed its first laser-assisted extraction of pacemaker leads [wires]. According to a ...
Indiatimes

Laser pacemaker lead extracted in Ambedkar hosp

The first case of laser pacemaker lead extraction in any government heart institution has been performed at the Department of Cardiology of the advanced cardiac institute of Ambedkar hospital in the ...
Nature

Considerations for cardiac device lead extraction

Lead extraction procedures are becoming common owing to the growing number of implantations in an ageing population, frequent device infections, and lead recalls and malfunctions The most common ...
Optics

Spectranetics Announces Reimbursement Approval for Laser-Assisted Lead Extraction in Japan

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectranetics Corporation (Nasdaq:SPNC - News) today announced that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan has approved product reimbursement to ...
TCTMD

Spectranetics Announces FDA Submission of Bridge(TM) Occlusion Balloon for Lead Extraction Procedures

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., The Spectranetics Corporation today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket Notification 510(k) submission of the Bridge Occlusion Balloon. Building on the ...