The Cutting Balloon™ is a special type of balloon device used to enlarge the pulmonary artery through a catheterization procedure. Use of the Cutting Balloon™ is available only through a clinical research study. The purpose of the clinical trial is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Cutting Balloon™ to treat pulmonary artery stenosis that was not successfully treated with balloon dilation alone.
Additional information
Sponsor of the clinical trial:
Children’s Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Mass.
Device manufacturer
Interventional Technologies, Inc.
San Diego, CA 92123
Interventional Technologies is a division of Boston Scientific
One Boston Scientific Place (corporate headquarters)
Natick, MA 01760-1537
Cleveland Clinic Investigators
Larry Latson, MD 216/445-6532
Tamar Preminger, MD 216/444-0108
Lourdes Prieto, MD 216/445-3865
Contact information
If your child has pulmonary artery stenosis requiring balloon dilation and you would like more information regarding this trial, please contact:
Kim Brown, RN, BSN
216/444-5380
800/223-2273 ext. 45380
brownk@ccf.org
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