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Mercator Launches Trial Of Micro-Infusion Device For Lower-Leg Obstruction

 
• By Reed Miller

LIMBO-ATX will evaluate adventitial delivery of dexamethasone after atherectomy-based revascularizations of lesions below the knee were noted in symptomatic patients with critical limb ischemia.

The first patients in the LIMBO-ATX pilot trial of Mercator MedSystems Inc.’s Bullfrog micro-infusion device for the treatment of critical limb ischemia have been enrolled in North Carolina and Texas, Mercator announced July 27.

The trial, planned for 120 patients, is a prospective, 30-center, randomized pilot study of localized adventitial delivery of dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid, following atherectomy of lesions in arteries below the...

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