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A Chance To Own The Venous Space: BTG Acquires Novate

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Complications with inferior vena cava (IVC) filters and subsequent patient-injury lawsuits have made this a tricky space for medical technology innovators, but BTG has not been deterred. The UK company has entered the fray with a technology developed by Novate Medical, and as a bioconvertible product BTG believes it has key advantages compared with other offerings. 

BTG PLC has continued to do selective bolt-ons to its growing portfolio of interventional medicine (IM) technologies, adding Novate Medical's Sentry inferior vena cava (IVC) filter to its product mix. The technology will boost the group's vascular business, which has tended to be overshadowed somewhat by BTG's expanding oncology franchise of late.

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