Healthcare Industry News: Extracellular Matrix
News Release - July 21, 2014
CorMatrix(R) Reports FDA Clearance of CorMatrix ECM(R) for Vascular Repair
ROSWELL, Ga.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--CorMatrix Cardiovascular announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market the CorMatrix® ECM® for Vascular Repair.The CorMatrix ECM for Vascular Repair is intended for use as a patch material for repair and reconstruction of peripheral vasculature including the carotid, renal, iliac, femoral, and tibial blood vessels. The CorMatrix ECM for Vascular Repair may be used for patch closure of vessels, as a pledget, or for suture line buttressing when repairing peripheral vessels. It is constructed from a multi-laminate sheet of decellularized, non-crosslinked, lyophilized Extracellular Matrix (ECM) derived from porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS).
According to Dr. Richard F. Neville, Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery at George Washington University, “CorMatrix ECM for Vascular Repair is an innovative scaffold permitting the patient’s own stem cells to regenerate viable autogenous tissue improving the results of revascularization procedures that often fail due to myointimal hyperplasia and accelerated atherosclerosis.”
“The CorMatrix ECM for Vascular Repair is an expansion of the current indications for our CorMatrix ECM for Carotid Repair and was pursued due to requests by our physicians for a product that could be used to repair blood vessels throughout the vascular system. CorMatrix devices have now been used in over 100,000 patients worldwide to treat a growing number of cardiovascular indications. We are pleased that we can address these additional requests by physicians, providing a novel device to meet current clinical needs,” commented Andrew Green, CorMatrix Cardiovascular’s Executive Vice President of Operations. “Expansion of our current FDA-cleared devices to satisfy unmet indications further strengthens our leadership position in the field of ECM technologies and regenerative medicine, utilizing the patient’s own stem cells and their natural healing ability.”
About CorMatrix
CorMatrix® Cardiovascular, Inc. was founded in 2001 as a privately held medical device company dedicated to developing and delivering innovative biomaterial devices that harness the body’s own innate ability to repair damaged cardiovascular tissues. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the Company is currently researching, developing and commercializing a platform technology known as CorMatrix ECM® for a variety of cardiovascular indications, and has U.S. clearance and European approval (with a CE Mark) for its ECM® technology as an implant for pericardial closure, cardiac tissue repair, as well as clearance for carotid repair. With significant patent protection, CorMatrix is poised to successfully expand its current line of products. For more information, visit www.cormatrix.com.
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Source: CorMatrix Cardiovascular
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