Dextera Surgical’s MicroCutter Technology to be Featured in Presentations at EACTS Annual Conference
September 28 2016 - 8:00AM
Dextera Surgical Inc. (Nasdaq:DXTR) today announced the company’s
schedule of key lecture presentations at the 30th European
Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) annual meeting, the
largest gathering of cardiothoracic surgeons in the world, to be
held Oct. 1 – 5 at the Centre Convencions Internacional de
Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
Innovative approaches to cardiothoracic procedures using the
company’s MicroCutter 5/80 surgical stapling technology will be
presented by Joel Dunning, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon at James
Cook University Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in
Middlesbrough, U.K. and Ruoyu Zhang, M.D., thoracic surgeon
at Klinik Schillerhoehe, Department of Thoracic Surgery in
Gerlingen, Germany.
Key presentations are as follows (all times Central European
Time):
Saturday 10/1/161:30 p.m., Room 113 – Beyond Conventional Video
Assisted Thoracic Surgery: Part 2
- Advanced stapling techniques/microcutters with J. Dunning
Monday 10/3/162:30 p.m., Room 129/130 – VATS Lobectomy
- Microlobectomy, a novel form of VATS lobectomy with J.
Dunning
3:15 p.m., Room 129/130 – VATS Lobectomy
- Clinical outcomes of thorascopic lobectomy in patients with
moderate and severe comorbidity with R. Zhang, T. Kyriss and G.
Friedel
About Dextera SurgicalDextera Surgical
designs and manufactures proprietary stapling devices for minimally
invasive surgical procedures. In the U.S., surgical staplers
are routinely used in more than one million minimally invasive
laparoscopic, video-assisted or robotic-assisted surgical
procedures annually.
The company's signature proprietary technology, the MicroCutter
5/80 Stapler, is the world's first and only five-millimeter
surgical stapler that articulates to 80 degrees in each direction.
As the smallest-profile articulating stapler available today, the
MicroCutter 5/80 Stapler may reduce the amount of dissection and
tissue handling required to position the stapler in confined
spaces, enabling access to difficult-to-reach anatomy. The
cartridge-based device's small size and wide articulation range are
designed to enhance the surgeon's access and visualization at the
surgical site and to mitigate limitations on the advancement of
minimally invasive surgical approaches created by larger stapling
devices.
Dextera Surgical also markets the only automated
anastomosis devices for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
surgery on the market today: the C-Port® Distal
Anastomosis Systems and PAS-Port® Proximal Anastomosis
System. These products, sold by Dextera Surgical
under the Cardica brand name, have demonstrated long-term
reliable clinical performance for more than a decade.
MicroCutter Indication Information The
MicroCutter 5/80 Stapler is manufactured and cleared for use in the
United States for transection and resection in multiple open or
minimally invasive urologic, thoracic and pediatric surgical
procedures, as well as application for transection, resection
and/or creation of anastomoses in the small and large intestine,
and the transection of the appendix. The MicroCutter 30 White
Reload has application in vascular tissue.
Contact:
Investors:
Bob Newell
Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
(650) 331-7133
investors@dexterasurgical.com
Media:
Jessica Volchok
(310) 849-7985
jessica@nicoleosmer.com