Ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy (ULL) is a medical procedure that breaks up kidney stones lodged in a ureter. Ureters are the tubes that connect your kidneys and bladder. Kidney stones affect ...

Kidney stones are a common condition in the U.S. – about 1 in 10 Americans get them. Passing a kidney stone can be quite painful. It can cause severe, sharp pain in the side and back, below the rib, ...

A novel technology called intravascular lithotripsy-facilitated percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (IVL-PBMV) shows promise for treating patients with severe calcific mitral stenosis (MS) and ...

The demand for lithotripsy procedures is expected to increase in the coming years. This expected increase is supported by a review of the Global Lithotripsy Devices Market. It is forecasted to grow at ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The interventional answer to heavily calcified coronary lesions could reside in a balloon catheter that blasts calcifications with bursts of acoustic energy, suggests an early-stage ...

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 ...

A catheter-based device that uses shockwaves to crack calcium in femoropopliteal arteries appears safe and effective in the short term, with fewer dissections as well as less use of postdilation and ...

PAD patients with severe calcification of the external and common iliac arteries who require TAVI can undergo a successful delivery of the device when it is facilitated by pretreatment with ...

The AEROLITH study demonstrated that in the ureteral stone subgroup, a key clinical population, efficacy was comparable between URS-LL with microbubbles and URS-LL alone. However, the use of ...

Abbott will be trying its hand in the growing field of intravascular lithotripsy, with a clinical study to examine an unnamed, investigational system that aims to fracture hardened calcium within the ...