Doctors discussing the report
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 dose1, 2 and the need for contrast.

Demonstrated results in aortic disease procedures

  1. 135

    more hours of operational availability

    135

    more hours of operational availability

    135 more hours on average of operational availability per year. Gain time to treat more patients in your interventional suite.1

  2. 91%

    agree that the new touch screen module improves usability

    91%

    agree that the new touch screen module improves usability

    91% of Azurion users think the enhanced touch screen module technology increases the ease of use when switching between compatible applications (e.g., X-ray, IVUS, hemo, etc.) during interventions compared to their current system.2, 3

  3. Help reduce

    procedural contrast use and radiation

    Help reduce

    procedural contrast use and radiation

    with IVUS guided EVAR procedures.3

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 table side
  • Easily create anatomical insights in 3D at table side
  • 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 quality5, 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

VesselNavigator is a huge feature that we are using all the time.

 A. Schanzer, MD
A. Schanzer, MD
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Doctors demonstrating the VesselNavigator technology

Related procedures

Documentation

Vascular suite
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Footnotes
  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The FORS-enabled guidewire as well as compatible endovascular catheters.
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