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Pathway Medical Gets FDA OK for Company's Peripheral Plaque Drill

Posted on July 23, 2008

When you fail to drill in the heart, you go offshore. Apparently, that's what Kirkland, Washington-based Pathway Medical Technologies has done. After the company failed to implement its atherectomy system for coronaries back in 2004, the company pressed ahead, and now it is apparently in possession of a brand new FDA approval for Pathway PV Atherectomy System, a peripheral blood vessel clearing device that scrapes and aspirates the gunk at the same time.Xconomy Seattle is reporting:Pathway's FDA application was based on a study of 172 patients in Europe, which found that its device sliced t...

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