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What is Focused Force Technology?

FOCUSED FORCE Angioplasty1 is a technique in which the forces resulting from inflating an angioplasty balloon in a stenosis are concentrated and focused at one or more locations within the stenosis. While the technique has been shown to be useful in resolving resistant stenoses, its real value may be in minimizing the vascular trauma associated with balloon angioplasty and subsequently improving the outcome.

FOCUSED FORCE Angioplasty, combined with a relatively slow (seconds) expansion of the vessel wall, may improve the acute and long-term outcome of coronary artery interventions by reducing the degree of vascular trauma that results from the respective interventions. The concept is safe, simple and economical. While additional clinical trials may be required to unequivocally confirm efficacy of this technique, such studies will present far less patient risk than those of the myriad of drugs, complex devices and procedures that have attempted to treat the injury. The eventual outcomes may very well demonstrate the old saying, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure1.

1Solar JR, Ischinger TA: FOCUSED FORCE ANGIOPLASTY: Theory and Application. 2002.