Medical Community Comments
Ara A. Vaporciyan, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Director
of Clinical Education & Training
Department of Thoracic &
Cardiovascular Surgery
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer
Center
"There is a significant body of
evidence
demonstrating that angiogenic factors could enhance the development
of microcirculation thus preserving and even reviving infracted or
damaged heart muscle. One of the problems with any of this
biologic therapy has been targeting the therapy appropriately,
whether it be biologic therapy in cancer or biologic therapy in
myocardial disease. The ability to place a catheter in the
pericardial space and bathe the cardiac mycardium in angiogenic
factors would be an unsurpassed method to deliver potent new agents
directly to the target tissue....It could lead to a significant
change in the approach to ischemic cardiac disease, which is, of
course, the number one killer of adults in America."
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Michael P. Macris, M.D.
Medical Director,
Cardiovascular Services NW
Memorial Hermann Hospital System
Chief Medical Officer, Cormedics Corporation
“Having used the PeriPort device in its various iterations…including human cadavers and open-heart surgery patients, I am very confident that the device will be both safe and effective for the removal of fluid in the pericardial space.”
“With regard to the deployment of drugs and/or devices for IPC [intrapericardial] therapy, I can offer an overview of the world literature which very strongly suggests that this new route of administration holds great promise for a very large number of applications. In general, as far as virtually all IPC drug studies have shown, drugs administered directly to the pericardial space have much higher drug effects, with much lower (and again, cheaper) dosages, while at the same time showing dramatically lower side-effects.”
“Lastly, as far as the deployment of devices, I
believe that the general trend in cardiac surgery…has been
overwhelmingly in the direction of the avoidance of sternotomy and
thoracotomy, such that accessing the heart via the subxyphoid
[Cormedics] approach just makes good sense to anyone pursuing
minimally-invasive device deployment.”
“..the device has a very solid foundation…and it should reach
clinical fruition in a wide variety of applications.”
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Director, Minimally Invasive
Surgical Technology
Associate Director, Laboratory Surgery
Research - Center for Cardiac Support
Texas Heart Institute @
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery,
Baylor College of Medicine