PLYMOUTH, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumen Biomedical, Inc. announced today final clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market two additional sizes of their Xtract™ Aspiration Catheter in the United States. Now the Xtract™ Catheter, which is indicated for use in the removal of soft, fresh thrombi (clots) and emboli from arteries in the body, is available in two larger sizes (5 and 5.8 French) making it the largest catheter of this type now on the market. The smaller catheter size (4.2F) was granted FDA clearance June 2006. Clots can restrict or interrupt blood flow within an artery, creating severe complications in patients. With three Xtract™ Aspiration Catheter models available on the US market, physicians have greater flexibility to retrieve potentially life threatening blood clots with the widest variety of catheter sizes. Thromboses events can be caused by physiological conditions or from interventional procedures themselves, one such complication being stent thrombosis.
