Shockwave Medical Inc (SWAV)

[Whalatane]

Steve. I remembered an earlier post you made .

I'm interested in this for myself...lower extremities of hard calcium build up.

These new IVL catheters might help ...note my earlier link today .

Dr. Briggs: I am a big proponent of optimizing lower extremity arterial inflow by treating the aortoiliac and common femoral segment.
Some of the happiest patients I see back in clinic after an intervention are typically those in whom I have restored flow through this segment.
That said, up until a few months ago, there was a subset of these patients in whom I would alter my treatment paradigm.
These were patients with severe calcification of the common iliac arteries (CIAs), regardless of TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II classification.
Severe calcification presents several challenges to endovascular intervention.
For one, severe calcification is largely unresponsive to balloon angioplasty.

Kiwi