Boston Scientific just announced receiving U.S. and European regulatory approvals for its Safari² pre-shaped guidewire that’s used during implantations of cardiac devices, including transcatheter aortic valves, most prominently the company’s Lotus system. The firm promises excellent shape retention, and the device aims to help make guidance more predictable. Before the first generation Safari guidewire, physicians adapted peripheral intervention guidewires that they manually shaped to the patients’ anatomies to help introduce transcatheter heart valves.
The Safari² comes in one of three curve sizes, with the smallest one enabling treatment of patients with particularly small ventricles.
Source: Boston Scientific…