Brain Surgery News
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Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital First in Nation to Successfully Implant New Brain Shunt Accessory for Patients with Hydrocephalus
Surgeons at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital are the first in the nation to successfully implant a new brain shunt accessory for young patients with hydrocephalus, a neurological condition that causes a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the deep cavities of the brain that often causes frequent hospitalizations. This extra fluid puts pressure on the brain and can cause brain ...
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Anuncia Medical Announces the First Successful US Implant of the Company’s Newly Commercially Released ReFlow Mini Flusher Device for Hydrocephalus Patients
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital First in the Country to Implant this Next Generation FDA-Cleared Device Company Welcomes Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mark Geiger, Who Lives with Hydrocephalus Anuncia Medical Inc. (“Anuncia” or the “Company”), a Company specializing in advancing innovations for implantable and external cerebrospinal fluid ...
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7-year-old Boy Managing His Hydrocephalus with ReFlow Ventricular System “Gen 1” Featured on Charleston’s ABC News 4
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 ...
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Anuncia Medical, Inc., receives FDA clearance for the ReFlow System Mini for the treatment of patients with hydrocephalus
Anuncia Medical, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the ReFlow® System Mini for the treatment of patients with hydrocephalus and other cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders that require shunting. Anuncia Medical announced FDA clearance of ReFlow® System Mini for the treatment of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders. The FDA 510(k) clearance allows ...
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LaunchPad Medical Wins a $2.5 Million NIH Grant to Improve Cranial Procedures
LaunchPad Medical, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a $2.5 million Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant (1R44NS115386) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to advance the development of Tetranite®, its bone adhesive biomaterial technology, to improve cranial flap fixation procedures. The clinical use of this product is expected ...
By RevBio Inc.
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The next evolution in blood vessel occlusion
The good news for his patient was that she was young. 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. The patient had undergone varicose vein treatments as a young woman that ...
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Synchron Announces First Human U.S. Brain-Computer Interface Implant
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. The procedure was performed at Mount Sinai West in ...
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Synchron Appoints Kurt Haggstrom as Chief Commercial Officer
Synchron, an endovascular brain-computer (BCI) interface company, today announced the appointment of Kurt Haggstrom as Chief Commercial Officer. Haggstrom brings an extensive background in medical device commercialization and product launches, with a technical background in R&D engineering, holding over 20 U.S. patents. “I am honored and excited to join the Synchron team and be part of ...
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Team Gleason Partners with Synchron to Redefine Accessibility
Team Gleason and Synchron, an endovascular brain computer interface company, today announced a partnership agreement to provide patient-focused feedback on their platform to transform daily life for patients with physical and speech disabilities like ALS, muscular dystrophy, and cerebral palsy. The partnership will enable Synchron to collaborate with Team Gleason’s expert committees and an ...
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Synchron Announces Enrollment of First Patient in U.S. Endovascular Brain Computer Interface Study COMMAND in Patients With Severe Paralysis
Synchron and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Advance Industry-First FDA-Approved Clinical Trial for Brain-Computer Interface in U.S. Paralysis is a devastating condition for more than 5 million patients in the United States Synchron, an endovascular brain-computer (BCI) interface company, today announced the enrollment of the first patient in the US clinical trial, COMMAND, for patients ...
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Synchron Announces Long-Term Safety Results from Fully Implanted Endovascular Brain-Computer Interface Stentrode for Severe Paralysis
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 material inserted ...
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NeuroSigma Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Monarch eTNS System®
NeuroSigma, Inc., a bioelectronic medical device company, today announced FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Monarch eTNS System® for “adjunctive use for reducing the frequency of seizures in individuals 18 years of age or older diagnosed with epilepsy characterized by partial-onset seizures, with or without secondary generalization, that are refractory to two or more ...
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Synchron Expands Advisory Board as Brain-Computer Interface Device Stentrode Advances into Patients in US Clinical Trials
Synchron, a brain computer interface (BCI) company, today announced the expansion of its advisory board comprised of industry pioneers, to provide strategic guidance in support of the Company’s clinical development plans, corporate strategy and growth. The members of the advisory board are visionaries across the technology, neuroscience and medical device industry, which include Edward ...
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AI ‘Fingerprinting’ Fights Back Against Hard-to-Detect Cancers
Hard-to-detect cancers like glioblastoma can have survival rates in the single-digit percentages and require elaborate techniques to detect, treat, and monitor. 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 ...
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Synchron announces first direct-thought tweet, “Hello World,”using an implantable brain computer interface
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. Mr. O’Keefe is the first person to successfully message the world on social media directly through thought using an implantable brain computer interface. Mr. O’Keefe, a 62-year-old man with amyotrophic ...
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Made in Quebec: Illuminating hidden brain cancer cells
It’s a scene that plays out daily in operating rooms around the world: a surgeon removes a malignant brain tumour. But rather than registering the satisfaction of having saved a patient’s life, hanging in the air is an all-too-real statistic; in 99.5% of these operations, unseen cancer cells remain. That hidden cancer will eventually grow and spread, and the operation will have become ...
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Internationally Renowned Neurosurgeon and Accomplished Researcher Dr. Linda M. Liau Joins ClearPoint Neuro Board of Directors
ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLPT) (the “Company”), a global therapy-enabling platform company providing navigation and delivery to the brain, is pleased to announce that Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA, has been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors effective immediately. Dr. Linda M. Liau is Professor and W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the ...
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Invenio Imaging receives CE Mark for NIO Laser Imaging System
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Invenio Imaging announced today that it has obtained the CE Mark for the NIO Laser Imaging System according to the In Vitro Diagnostic Directive (IVDD). This enables commercialization of this novel imaging system for intraoperative histology in the European market. The NIO Laser Imaging System uses Stimulated Raman Histology to ...
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New Device Taps Brain Signals To Help Stroke Patients Regain Hand Function
People recovering from a stroke will soon have access to a device that can help restore a disabled hand. The Food And Drug Administration has authorized a device called IpsiHand from the uninjured side of a patient's brain to help rewire circuits controlling the hand, wrist and arm. The device can be used at home and offers stroke patients "an additional treatment option to help them ...
By Neurolutions
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Anuncia Medical, Inc. Selects Scottsdale, Ariz. for New HQ to Further Develop Lifesaving Medtech
Anuncia Inc., a therapeutic medical device company and an emerging leader in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) management innovation, announced today it is moving its headquarters to Scottsdale, Ariz. and will operate at SkySong, the Arizona State University Scottsdale Innovation Center. The move is the first geographic expansion for the high growth medtech startup previously based in Massachusetts. With ...
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