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Medtronic plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the IN.PACT Admiral drug-coated balloon (DCB) in longer, 150 mm lengths. The new 150 mm length balloon, available in four, five, and six mm diameters, will provide greater treatment options for long lesions in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).
"The long lesion (10-18 cm) sub-group outcomes from the IN.PACT SFA Trial at one year demonstrated superiority over balloon angioplasty," said John Laird, M.D., interventional cardiologist at U.C. Davis Medical Center and co-principal investigator for the IN.PACT SFA Trial. "The availability of the 150 mm length sizes will expand proven treatment options to more patients."
The IN.PACT SFA Trial, a prospective, multi-center, randomized, controlled pivotal trial demonstrated, in a subgroup of patients with lesions >=10 cm and <18 cm, a clinically-driven target lesion revascularization (CD-TLR) rate of 5.3 percent for the IN.PACT Admiral DCB arm (n=79) and 32.4 percent for the PTA arm (n=36) (p<0.001). There were no device or procedure-related deaths, no occurrences of major target limb amputation, and a 3.9 percent thrombosis rate in the IN.PACT Admiral DCB arm versus 5.9 percent in the PTA arm through 12 months (p=0.326) in this subgroup.
"The expansion of IN.PACT Admiral DCB to 150 mm lengths demonstrates our commitment to providing meaningful technology to improve patient outcomes in a value-based healthcare environment," said Mark Pacyna, vice president and general manager of the Peripheral business, which is part of the Aortic & Peripheral Vascular division at Medtronic. "The IN.PACT Admiral platform continues to show durable, consistent, and safe outcomes."
IN.PACT Admiral DCB received the CE (Conformité Européene) Mark in 2009 to treat PAD and was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in December 2014 to treat superficial femoral and popliteal arteries. It has been studied in more than 20 individual clinical trials demonstrating durable safety and clinical benefits.
