AngioDynamics Receives FDA Clearance for Ports With BioFlo Technology

AngioDynamics

, a leading provider of innovative, minimally invasive medical devices for vascular access, surgery, peripheral vascular disease and oncology, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance to Navilyst Medical Inc., an AngioDynamics company, for its BioFlo Port with Endexo technology designed to reduce the accumulation of catheter-related thrombus on, and in, the port catheter. This marks the second U.S. clearance of a product line developed with BioFlo's advanced technology; an initial launch is expected in the Company's third quarter of fiscal year 2014. Implantable ports are medical devices implanted under the skin that facilitate long-term delivery of medication and access to a patient's vascular system for repeated intravenous treatments such as chemotherapy, blood withdrawal or delivery of total parenteral nutrition. Medical device thrombosis caused by products such as ports costs the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $1 billion annually with over 50,000 deaths per year caused by thromboembolism and cancer patients among those most susceptible to thrombosis.