Stereotaxis Inc. (STXS)

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Patients with ventricular arrhythmias do significantly better with ablations than with ICD implants. Problem is that most centers go with the ICD implant as the only option because they don't have the manual skills nor experience to do VT/PVC ablations. Even clinicians at high volume centers do not like doing these complex ablations because the procedure times range from 5-8 hours manually. If they have the stxs system, procedures are running 2-4 hours (skin to skin) past the learning curve so it is no big deal to offer the procedure with high success and low complication rates. Compared to mediocre success and high complication rates when done manually. Anyway, PVC, VT and post heart attack patients need this service and centers that want to offer this service will need to install the stxs system. The alternative would be to keep the patients in the dark and tell them ICD is their best option.

http://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(15)01178-9/pdf

and a bunch of recent journaled articles show results consistent with the latest one above.