Areas of Expertise

Hypertension continues to be a significant contributor to global morbidity and mortality, with an abundance of patience with uncontrolled blood pressure despite the multitude of pharmacological options available. The target now is to use device-based therapies.

• Renal denervation (RDN). It is a minimally invasive procedure to treat resistant hypertension. The procedure uses radiofrequency ablation to burn the nerves in the renal arteries. This process causes a reduction in nerve activity, which decreases blood pressure.
• Baroflex activation therapy (BAT). It is a therapy that uses an implanted device to electrically stimulate baroreceptors in the carotid sinus region, which elicits a reflex response through the sympathetic and vagal nervous systems that reduce blood pressure.
• Carotid body ablation. Carotid bodies are peripheral chemoreceptors that regulate sympathetic tone and respiratory minute ventilation in response to stimuli such as hypoxia or acidosis. The ablation of the carotid body (CB) function has been proposed as a target for circulatory regulation.
• Central iliac arteries anastomosis. It is a therapy that intends to reduce effective arterial volume, systemic vascular resistance (SVR), and cardiac afterload, lowering blood pressure.  

Digital implant surgery or digital navigation implant surgery consists in using a 3D computer simulation to check the conditions of bone and nerve position.

It is possible to put the new dental implant and decrease the pain and the recovery time with a minimal and precise incision. It also reduces the risk of infection. With this technology, you can avoid sensitive zones and any damage to them.

CAD-CAM prosthesis. It is a technology that helps to improve the design of artificial teeth replacing missing teeth or another dental treatment.

It is necessary first to scan the tooth or dental implant in the study model to be worked on, a scan of the antagonist, and the bite. Then, the computer design prosthesis using 3D software (which helps calculate the insertion axes). The last step is the robotic manufacturing of the dental pieces, based on the design information of the prosthesis in a short time.

Diabetes is a systemic disease that affects the entire vascular system.

Diabetic patients have an increased risk for restenosis, and their clinical follow-up is characterized by a higher incidence of death, myocardial infarction.

This makes diabetes management as a relevant matter to solve. Some of the solutions that the industry is providing are related to drug dispensers and self-monitoring of blood glucose.

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection. It is necessary to get antibiotics. But you may need other treatments depending on the symptoms: ventilator to help you breathe, surgery to remove areas of infection or another treatment in an intensive unit.

Medical device manufacturers are using these two technologies to change their products to assist health care providers better and improve patient care. They have the advantage to adapt and optimize medical devices used in real-time to improve health care for patients continuously.

• Artificial Intelligence is the engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs (McCarthy, 2007). All of these using different techniques based on a statistical analysis of data and machine learning.
• Machine Learning SaMD is a kind of software as a Medical Device since it is an artificial intelligence technique that can be used to design and train software algorithms to learn from and act on databases.

Laparoscopy Surgery is done through one or more small incisions, using small tubes and tiny cameras and surgical instruments. Laparoscopy Surgery was one of the first types of minimally invasive surgery. Another type of minimally invasive surgery is robotic surgery. It provides a magnified, 3D view of the surgical site, and helps the surgeon operate with precision, flexibility, and control.

This type of endovascular surgery is used to treat the pathology of the aorta, most commonly an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The procedure involves the placement of an expandable stent graft within the aorta to treat aortic disease without operating directly on the aorta. In 2003, EVAR surpassed open aortic surgery as the most common technique for repair of AAA. When it is used to treat a thoracic aortic disease, the procedure is then precisely termed TEVAR for “thoracic endovascular aortic/aneurysm repair”.

PCI is a non-surgical procedure to treat Coronary Artery Diseases. Besides, it improves blood flow, decreases angina pectoris, and helps in several heart diseases.

The catheter is inserted into the blood vessels to place a small structure in the heart to open blood vessels where the coronary artery has been narrowed. When the tip is in place, a balloon tip covered with a stent is inflated. The balloon tip compresses the plaque and expands the stent. Once the plaque is compressed, and the stent is in place, the balloon is deflated and withdrawn. The stent stays in the artery, holding it open.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace the aortic valve for patients with severe and symptomatic aortic stenosis (narrowing of the aortic valve opening). TAVR is performed on a beating heart and does not require a large surgical incision or the support of a heart-lung machine.

Neurovascular Mechanical Thrombectomy is the removal of thrombus that is obstructing blood circulation in the brain, using a Stent.

A catheter is inserted into the leg artery, and the catheter advances to the place where the thrombus is located. There the stent is released and then proceeds to remove the thrombus and unclog the artery.