Spinr High-Performance Guidewire Controller

Distal Access
(954) 534-9345
www.distalaccess.com

Key Features:
• Polycarbonate handles
• Novel core screw drive
• Connects to 0.014- to 0.038-inch guidewires
• Designed for improved torque, control, and performance
• No motors or complex electromechanical mechanisms required

Distal Access has announced FDA clearance of the Spinr high-performance guidewire controller for use in the coronary and peripheral vasculature to maneuver guidewires during interventional and diagnostic procedures. During use, clinicians insert a Spinr onto the proximal end of a guidewire, advance the Spinr close to the guidewire access site in the body, and tighten the Spinr cap onto the wire. Then, the clinician can squeeze and release the front handle to rotate-oscillate the guidewire with improved torque, control, and performance.

“Controlling guidewires is important to successful patient outcomes,” said Vasili Lendel, MD, interventional cardiologist at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. “Basically, if a guidewire cannot cross a lesion, we may not be able to treat the problem. Devices that help guidewires access and cross lesions can help improve procedure safety and effectiveness.”

Threader Micro-Dilatation Catheter

Boston Scientific Corporation
(888) 272-1001
www.bostonscientific.com/threader

Key Features:
• PowerCoil technology
• 1.2- X 12-mm semicompliant balloon
• 0.017-inch lesion-entry profile/ 0.024-inch crossing profile
• 150-cm length
• Hydrophilic coating

Boston Scientific Corporation has received CE Mark approval and FDA 510(k) clearance for the Threader microdilatation catheter. Threader is a unique multitool designed to simplify the treatment of highly complex lesions, allowing for utilization of fewer devices to cross lesions, exchange wires, and dilate.

The 0.017-inch lesion-entry profile and 0.024-inch crossing profile provide better access to a wider variety of complex lesions, while the 1.2- X 12-mm semicompliant balloon at the distal tip enables predilatation vessel preparation. Threader also features Boston Scientific’s new PowerCoil technology, a kink-resistant shaft composition engineered to improve both pushability and flexibility—normally a trade-off in design—for improved deliverability. Combined with a 150-cm length and a hydrophilic coating designed to reduce friction, Threader provides the strength to cross and the capability to dilate even the smallest, tightest lesions.