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Imperative CareCampbell, Calif.Founded: 2015Technology for stroke treatment

Imperative Care‘s TracStar LDP, touted as the first LDP on the market, is a 0.088 in. large bore access catheter designed to get closer to the treatment site for stroke procedures, while its Zoom aspiration portfolio, designed to work with LDP, delivers trackable aspiration catheters that are optimized for fast, effective c

It`s been less than five years since, beginning with MR CLEAN, a series of landmark trials validated the role of clot-removing (thrombectomy) devices that can open up large vessel occlusions in the anterior circulation of patients experiencing acute ischemic stroke. But the field is moving fast. Mechanical thrombectomy devices known as stent retrievers (or stentrievers) and aspiration catheters are moving into the third generation.

The device market is growing rapidly too. According t