Exstent Ltd is proud to announce that at the beginning of March, 750 patients have been successfully implanted with ExoVasc® – 650 Aortic PEARS patients and 100 Ross PEARS patients. Thank you to all those involved in the PEARS projects including all PEARS surgeons and their support teams, Exstent’s employees and distributors.
Conal Austin gave a Keynote Lecture on PEARS – A Novel Concept in Aortic Surgery at the 5th Heart Team Winter Summit in Zürs am Arlberg in Austria on Thursday 9 March 2023.
Conal Austin will be presenting on ‘The Ross Procedure: Technical Tips and Tricks’ at the SCTS Annual Meeting 2023 on 19 2023 at the ICC, Birmingham. The Annual Meeting is an annual Conference which takes place over 3 days aimed at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Community. There is an industry exhibition, key note talks from international speakers, hands on wetlab and abstract presentations.
You can find out more about the exhibition at scts.org/events/179/scts_annual_meeting_2023/.
Tal Golesworthy was on the invited panel for the Plenary Debate entitled MedTech Innovation: Tomorrow’s Future Today at the Medtec Futures Conference delivered by Health Tech Enterprise at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire on 1 March 2023.
The event brought together leaders from the NHS, industry and academia to explore key needs in healthcare provision and the latest technology trends.
You can find out more about the conference at www.healthtechenterprise.co.uk/latest-updates/hte-medtech-future.
Ana Redondo gave a presentation entitled ‘Our experience with Personalised External Aortic Root Support for dilation aortopathies’ and Darryl Shore presented on ‘When to pick PEARS: an update’ at the British Congenital Cardiac Association Annual Conference in Birmingham on 7-8 November 2022.
More information can be found at bcca2022.co.uk.
A paper entitled ‘Personalized external aortic root support in aneurysm disease’ authored by Tom Treasure, Conal Austin, Louise Kenny and John Pepper has been published in Current Opinion in Cardiology. It provides an update on the last 18 years since the first PEARS operation. You can download a copy of the paper here.
After a lot of hard work by the whole Exstent team and a very thorough audit by BSI in July, the Exstent Quality Management System has now been certified as compliant to ISO 13485:2016. You can download a copy of the certificate here.
On 8 October 2022 at 9:50am (UK time), Tal Golesworthy will present at the Marfan Information Day virtual conference hosted by the Marfan Trust. His presentation is entitled PEARS Update from Worldwide Experience.
You can find out more and book tickets on the Marfan Trust website: https://www.marfantrust.org/events/marfan-information-day.
Exstent Ltd will be exhibiting at EACTS 2022, which runs 5 – 8 October 2022 in Milan, Italy. The meeting is the largest event for the cardiothoracic community.
For more information, visit www.eacts.org/annual-meeting.
We’ll be on stand B31 – we hope to see you there!
Exstent Ltd is sponsoring London Aorta 2022, which runs 29 – 30 September 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians. The purpose of the event is to foster and encourage a multidisciplinary approach to aortic diseases which are often complex and require life-long surveillance.
For more information, visit www.londonaorta.org.
We hope to see you there.
