Avinger announces presentations by KOLs at AMP 2023

Avinger announced three podium presentations featuring the company’s Lumivascular technology at The Amputation Prevention Symposium, held from August 16 through August 19 in Chicago, Illinois. Key opinion leaders in the fields of interventional cardiology highlighted Avinger’s Lumivascular technology, which includes the Pantheris family of image-guided atherectomy products and the Ocelot and Tigereye image-guided chronic total occlusion crossing products, in the following sessions: Dr. Thomas Davis, an interventional cardiologist, and the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and Peripheral Interventions at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, featured Avinger’s Pantheris SV OCT-guided atherectomy system in his sessions, “Late Breaking: OCT-Guided Atherectomy of Lesions BTK: Real-Time Imaging That Provides Real-World Data,” and “New Insights on the Anatomy of BTK Lesions Based on Intravascular Imaging.” Dr. Ian Cawich, a coronary, peripheral, and vascular interventionalist and limb salvage expert at Arkansas Heart in Little Rock, highlighted Avinger’s proprietary OCT-guided atherectomy technologies in his session, “How to Use OCT Imaging in CLI: Tips and Tricks.” Dr. Davis presented updated interim data from IMAGE-BTK, a post-market study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Pantheris SV in treating below-the-knee lesions, and also shared new findings about the nature of peripheral artery disease below-the-knee as discovered with Avinger’s intravascular guidance system. He commented, “As more and more patients have completed their 6-month and 12-month follow-up, we continue to build compelling evidence supporting Pantheris SV as a primary interventional tool to address below-the-knee lesions. Over a 12-month period, the enrollees of IMAGE-BTK exhibited 96% freedom from target lesion revascularization and 93% patency in limbs treated, with no major adverse safety events. With the majority of the 46 patients in this study suffering a very advanced stage of peripheral disease, this important real-world data shows that Pantheris SV, with its unique combination of image-guidance and targeted mechanism of action, leads to better outcomes than previously published with any other technology in this patient population over a 12-month time period.” Dr. Cawich noted, “Onboard image-guidance provides an interventionalist with important advantages for achieving better patient outcomes, in terms of providing more minimal invasive treatment options, higher procedural success and safety rates, and lower incidence of recurrence for sufferers of critical limb ischemia. As the only technology available with real-time imaging at the point of therapy, Avinger’s products are critical tools for successful revascularization, limb salvage, and reduction in symptoms of CLI.”