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Date:3/17/2008

s, with venous patency achieved in all cases. No adverse events were reported in the acute procedural follow-up period. Venous angioplasty, and/or stenting, were also used in the study in conjunction with the Trellis procedure to treat underlying problems depending on individual patient needs, such as a narrow area in the vein that would make a person susceptible to future clots.

About The Trellis(R)-8 Infusion System

The Trellis(R)-8 Infusion System is positioned at the site of the clot and a balloon is inflated on both sides of the clot to prevent pieces of the clot from traveling to other parts of the body and to isolate the treatment zone, so that there is less chance the infused drug will cause bleeding. Then a "dispersion wire" is fed through the catheter of the system. The wire begins to rotate, mixing the clot-busting drug within the clot; the clot pieces are aspirated into the catheter and removed from the body.

The Trellis is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a drug-infusion catheter for peripheral vascular clots. The drug and device have been used for years to remove blood clots from arteries and veins. The data are specific to DVT, showing that it works and is safe.

About the Society of Interventional Radiology

Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-ray, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.

Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invas
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