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Planning brain surgery is a delicate process that requires precision to avoid damaging surrounding brain tissue and to prevent post-surgery complications. ...
(“Anuncia” or the “Company”), a Company specializing in advancing innovations for implantable and external cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) management systems, is pleased to announce the successful first implant of the Company’s FDA-cleared ReFlow™ Mini Flusher device in tandem with a “sonolucent” cranial plate (Clearfit® Cover, Longeviti, Baltimore ...
This extra fluid puts pressure on the brain and can cause brain damage. Hydrocephalus is characterized by head enlargement in infants. ...
Performed by neurosurgeon Samuel Cheshier, MD, at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, the patient previously required at least 11 brain surgeries to manage their hydrocephalus, a chronic neurological condition in which excess CSF accumulates in the brain, often causing severe symptoms, frequent hospitalizations, and ...
After struggling to conceive a child for what felt like ages, Miranda of Moncks County, South Carolina finally fell pregnant - a miracle that quickly turned into horror when she delivered at 24 weeks in late 2015. At just 1 pound and 12 ounces, her son, Sutton, arrived with life-threatening health issues, including hydrocephalus - a neurological disorder caused by an abnormal buildup of ...
Our efforts to evolve hydrocephalus care will continue with clinical trials to evaluate the potential of Mini to extend shunt life and significantly reduce the large unmet medical need of solving repeat revision brain surgeries.” In addition, this week Anuncia Medical was honored by AZBio as a “2022 Fast Lane Company for the progress they are making ...
The clinical use of this product is expected to enhance bone healing, reduce infection rates, and improve the cosmetic outcome of these procedures for patients while eliminating the need for metal fixation hardware. Brain surgery often involves performing a craniotomy, a procedure by which a portion of the skull is temporarily removed using bone cutting ...
A lower extremity bypass procedure - like any surgery - can be more difficult as we age. The bad news was that the best veins for the procedure - which involves grafting a vein from another part of the body to bypass her blocked arteries in the leg - were unusable. ...
Synchron, an endovascular brain-computer interface (BCI) company, today announced the first human BCI implant in the United States. This procedure represents a significant technological milestone for scalable BCI devices and is the first to occur in the U.S. using an endovascular BCI approach, which does not require invasive open-brain surgery. ...
Synchron, an endovascular brain-computer (BCI) interface company, today announced the appointment of Kurt Haggstrom as Chief Commercial Officer. ...
“We’re excited to announce our partnership with Team Gleason, who will assist our team in increasing awareness of endovascular BCI technology that does not require open brain surgery,” said Tom Oxley, M.D., CEO & Founder, Synchron. ...
The Stentrode is implanted to the motor cortex of the brain through the jugular vein in a minimally-invasive procedure. Once implanted, it translates brain activity into a standardized digital language to allow patients to complete everyday tasks hands-free, on external devices including texting, emailing, online shopping and accessing telehealth services. ...
Four Patients With ALS Who Received Stentrode™ Implant Gained Ability to Perform Daily Online Tasks No Serious Adverse Events Reported after 12 Months Synchron, a brain computer interface (BCI) company, today announced the results from a study in which four people with ALS received an implant of Synchron’s Stentrode™ device, a small mesh-like ...
It is widely recognized that alternatives to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and surgery are a significant unmet medical need, especially for patients with incomplete seizure control who may not be candidates for, or wish to avoid the risks of, surgery and implantable devices. ...
” Synchron has developed an endovascular brain computer interface that is designed to access every corner of the brain using its natural highways, the blood vessels. ...
Reveal Surgical is working on changing that reality through its new, AI-based Sentry technology, which leverages a combination of AI and Raman spectroscopy to provide real-time tissue diagnostics during surgery for otherwise-invisible tumors. Raman spectroscopy is the use of light scattering from a laser to detect molecular structures and compositions of a material—in this ...
Synchron, a brain computer interface company, today announced a Twitter takeover by Philip O’Keefe, one of the patients implanted with the Stentrode brain computer interface. ...
Combining engineering and medicine can lead to world-leading tools like the Raman spectroscopy, which can help to distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells; for example, in brain tumour surgery.ISTOCKPHOTO / GETTY IMAGES One of the biggest challenges in brain tumour surgery is making sure that all cancer cells are removed. ...
(Nasdaq: LIXT) announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has resumed enrolling patients into their pharmacologic study of the ability of Lixte’s lead compound, LB-100, to enter the brain and penetrate recurrent, malignant brain tumors, in patients where surgical removal of their cancer is indicated. ...
“Ninety percent of the time the failures are exactly where the surgery stopped,” explains Kevin Petrecca, Chief of the Department of Neurosurgery at the McGill University Health Centre, about those elusive cancer cells. Now, the Montreal-based company that Petrecca helped found is poised to solve the problem of residual brain cancer. Reveal Surgical ...