Image-guided therapy
Aortic disease
Enhancing guidance and workflow in aortic procedures
The Azurion vascular suite provides workflow options, dedicated interventional tools and a broad selection of advanced vascular devices to improve procedural efficiency and redefine outcomes for your patients with aortic disease. This solution supports each step of your procedure – as you decide, guide, treat and confirm treatment results.
Vascular suite
Quickly and confidently perform aortic procedures
A flexible, ergonomic system that supports patient and staff comfort during aortic interventions and delivers high-quality images while reducing radiation dose[1, 2] and the need for contrast.
Demonstrated results in aortic disease procedures
Confidence and efficiency in aortic interventions
Endovascular treatments of aortic diseases are becoming longer and addressing more complex anatomy. Radiation and contrast medium usage are a concern, specifically for elderly and health-impaired patients. Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) has been associated with an increase in complications and prolonged hospital stay.[4] At the same time, modular stents are replacing expensive tailored stents to increase availability and cost-effectiveness of suitable grafts. Integrated imaging modalities are driving higher precision in treatment planning, guidance and follow-up.
Enhancing guidance and workflow in aortic procedures
- Quickly and confidently perform aortic procedures with Azurion
- Benefit from step-by-step guidance to simplify cone beam CT (CBCT) acquisition
- Access advanced 3D measurements and interact with images at tableside
- Easily create anatomical insights in 3D at tableside
- 3D visualization of vasculature, hemorrhages, soft tissue and bone structures
Insightful planning and guidance for aortic disease procedures
- Reduce the need for contrast by providing an intuitive and continuous 3D roadmap based on existing datasets with VesselNavigator
- Reduce patient dose by 57% in EVAR procedures with Clarity IQ while maintaining equivalent image quality[5, 6]
- Provides CT-like imaging directly in the angio suite, thereby saving time and preventing additional risk to the patient with SmartCT SoftTissue
- Visualize blood vessels from the inside out with IVUS catheter-based imaging technology
Featured solutions for aortic disease procedures
Advancing aortic procedures with Azurion
Azurion Image Guided Therapy system offers innovations designed to help you work efficiently and consistently. It aids teams in addressing clinical challenges in aortic procedures, while they maintain a single-minded focus on the patient and on managing radiation dose during interventions.
VesselNavigator
VesselNavigator helps reduce the need for contrast by providing an intuitive and continuous 3D roadmap based on existing CTA and MRA datasets to guide you through vasculature during aortic procedures.
SmartCT SoftTissue
SmartCT Soft Tissue provides CT-like visualization of soft tissue, bone and vascular structures. This X-ray acquisition technique generates CT-like visualization of soft tissue in relation to other structures during procedures – all controlled via the touchscreen at tableside.
VesselNavigator is a huge feature that we are using all the time.
A. Schanzer, MD
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Footnotes
- Data shown is an average, based on the comparison between remotely connected and non-remotely connected systems. Data sample from 2018 for Allura FD and Azurion systems (n=9955).
- Results obtained during a Usability Evaluation in the period of May and June 2019. The tests involved 23 clinicians (16 physicians and 7 technologists) from Europe who performed procedures using Azurion 2.1 image-guided therapy system in a cardiac workflow and non-cardiac workflow in a simulated interventional lab environment.
- Hoshina, et al. A Retrospective Study of Intravascular Ultrasound use in Patients Undergoing Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Its Usefulness and a Description of the Procedure. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2010;40:559-563.
- Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.
- The results of the application of dose reduction techniques will vary depending on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical location and clinical practice. The interventional radiologist assisted by a physicist as necessary has to determine the appropriate settings for each specific clinical task.
- Results based on total dose area product from a single center prospective historically controlled cohort study on 37 patients (18 for Allura Xper without ClarityIQ and 19 for Allura Xper with ClarityIQ). Procedural performances (fluoroscopy time and contrast medium) of the physician did not significantly differ between the two cohorts.
- The FORS-enabled guidewire as well as compatible endovascular catheters.
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