Stereotaxis completes proof-of-concept demo

Image-guided interventional surgery firm Stereotaxis of St. Louis said that it has successfully completed a proof-of-concept demonstration of a magnetically enabled endocardial injection catheter developed in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson's Biologics Delivery Systems Group, Cordis.

The procedure, which was performed by Dr. Emerson Perin of the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, involved the remote magnetic steering of the company's Niobe magnetic navigation system, electromechanical mapping features of Cordis' Noga XP cardiac navigation system, and a magnetically enabled injection catheter.

The study mapped the left ventricle and identified and navigated the magnetic injection catheter to 15 targeted injection sites in the left ventricle, the company said.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 16, 2006

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