Cook Medical Release: First Device Designed to Preserve Blood Flow to Iliac Arteries During Aneurysm Repair Receives Approval from Health Canada

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canadian physicians can now treat patients suffering from life-threatening aneurysms in one of the body’s largest arteries with an endovascular graft delivered during a minimally invasive procedure without blocking a critical artery. The Zenith® Branch Endovascular Graft-Iliac Bifurcation from Cook Medical, approved today by Health Canada’s Medical Devices Bureau, is specifically designed to preserve flow to the internal iliac artery allowing for the endovascular treatment of both aortoiliac and iliac artery aneurysms that commonly occur in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Aneurysms are bulges in the walls of the major arteries that left untreated can rupture causing death.