Tag: Neurosurgery
Zeta Surgical’s AI-powered navigation system gains US FDA 510(k) clearance expansion
Zeta Surgical has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Zeta navigation system has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Nick Hopkins, 1943–2024: neurointerventional community mourns pioneer and “force of nature”...
Leo Nelson (Nick) Hopkins, a world-renowned surgeon, researcher and innovator who played a pioneering role in modern neurosurgery’s shift from open- to endovascular-first techniques,...
Clearmind Biomedical announces US FDA clearance and initial case with Neuroblade...
Clearmind Biomedical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Neuroblade system—a novel neuroendoscopy system that enables minimally invasive procedures...
MMI completes “world-first” robotic preclinical study in neurosurgery with Symani system
Medical Microinstruments (MMI) recently announced the completion of a preclinical study that demonstrated the feasibility of the Symani surgical system in neurosurgical procedures. Adnan Siddiqui...
Adnan Siddiqui
While he is a neurosurgeon by trade, Adnan Siddiqui (Buffalo, USA) has delved into an increasing number of domains throughout his career—not only through...
AiM partners with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to validate DBS lead...
AiM Medical Robotics has announced a collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH; Boston, USA), and the Surgical Navigation and Robotics (SNR) Lab at Harvard, to validate its cutting-edge robot...
New Myriad Spectra system described as “gamechanger” in high-grade glioma brain...
The latest product innovation by Nico Corporation, the Myriad Spectra system, has been described as a "game-changing advancement" by neurosurgeons with early experience using...
Insightec launches next-generation Exablate Prime neurosurgery platform in Europe
Insightec has announced the CE-mark approval and European launch of Exablate Prime, which the company describes as a “significant enhancement” to its Exablate Neuro...
Michihiro Tanaka
Michihiro Tanaka, director of Neurosurgery and Neuroendovascular Surgery at Kameda Medical Center (Chiba, Japan), speaks to NeuroNews to discuss the factors that have shaped...
Advancing neurosurgery inside and outside the operating room
Brian Nahed (Boston, USA) outlines the latest advances in neurosurgery, and why it is important for those working in the field to keep up...
Leica Microsystems launches evolved version of ARveo 8 digital neurosurgery microscope
Leica Microsystems has launched an evolved version of its ARveo 8 digital visualisation microscope for neurosurgery. The ever-growing ecosystem, ARveo 8, enhances surgical visualisation...
New Pathway to Neurosurgery programme intends to “open doors” for underrepresented...
The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Foundation has launched its Pathway to Neurosurgery programme, an initiative dedicated to alleviating healthcare disparities by encouraging high...
Brain Navi to showcase NaoTrac and KrystoLens neurosurgical devices at upcoming...
Brain Navi has announced the demonstration of NaoTrac, a neurosurgical navigation robot, and KrystoLens, a single-use neuro-endoscope, at two upcoming conferences: the Congress of Neurological...
Nurami receives US FDA 510(k) clearance for resorbable dural repair graft
Nurami Medical, a medical device startup company, has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its electrospun nanofibre-based product, ArtiFascia...
Hubly Surgical closes oversubscribed US$3 million seed funding round
Hubly Surgical has successfully closed its Series seed funding round at an oversubscribed US$3 million. As per a company announcement, this investment comes on the...
Flow-diverter performance “comparable” between PComAs and other supraclinoid aneurysms
The concluding findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Neurosurgery indicate that flow-diverter performance in posterior communicating artery (PComA) aneurysms...
US centre achieves 87% drop in neurosurgical infection rates across two-year...
A US centre has achieved a steep drop in infection rates among its neurosurgery patients over a two-year period thanks to the implementation of...
J Mocco
As president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), endovascular neurosurgeon J Mocco (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA) has...
NeuroOne announces first clinical case using Evo sEEG electrode in robotic...
NeuroOne Medical Technologies has announced the first clinical case using the Evo stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) electrode in robotic neurosurgery.
Performed by William Bingaman at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland,...
ChatGPT outperforms medical students and matches residents on neurosurgical board-style questions
An analysis published in the Journal of Neurosurgery, which assessed ChatGPT’s (OpenAI) performance on a surrogate for neurosurgical board-style questions, has found that the...
Hubly Surgical gains US FDA clearance for novel burr-hole placement device
Hubly Surgical has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Hubly Drill, which the company describes as an innovative...
Computing the future: Exploring ChatGPT’s potential role in neurosurgical practice
Brian Fiani (Livonia, USA) and Ryan Jarrah (Rochester, USA) take a look at the neurosurgical implications of one of the hottest topics permeating not...
Dystonia patient undergoes successful brain pacemaker surgery while watching cartoons
A dystonia patient in Turkey who had been having uncontrollable involuntary contractions in her legs and arms for the past five years recently underwent...
Minneapolis hospital opens “nation’s first” paediatric hybrid intraoperative MRI neurosurgery suite
Children's Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) has claimed, in a press release, to have become the first health system in North America to open a paediatric hybrid intraoperative magnetic resonance...
Hotter weather during transportation associated with improved thrombectomy outcomes
A study intended to examine the impact of different weather conditions and modes of transport on mechanical thrombectomies in stroke patients has found a...
Study reveals racial disparity in brain tumour surgeries recommended to US...
A patient’s race may influence the recommendations they receive for the surgical removal of brain tumours, as per a recent, registry-based cohort analysis published...
NICO raises US$12.5 million in oversubscribed investment round
NICO Corporation has completed a US$12.5 million capital raise in an oversubscribed round that will scale the business, and leverage continued progress on the company's recently completed adaptive...
IRRAS announces educational webinar series alongside Jacobs Institute and University of...
IRRAS today announced the launch of a new educational webinar series, entitled “Exploring the Impact of IRRAflow's Active Fluid Exchange: Our Early Experience Utilizing...
Insightec announces financing up to US$200 million to support continued growth
Insightec has announced that it has signed a credit facility for up to US$200 million with affiliates of existing shareholders, Perceptive Advisors and Community Fund....
AiM unveils prototype of MRI-compatible neurosurgical robot, receives Sontag Foundation funding
AiM Medical Robotics has announced the unveiling of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-compatible prototype of its “industry-first” robotics platform, a company press release states,...
Minnetronix makes “world’s first” expandable brain port available to neurosurgical markets
Minnetronix Medical’s first product, which the company says was conceptualised, developed, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared and manufactured internally, is now fully commercialised...
Taiwan’s FDA approves first autonomous neurosurgical navigation robot from Brain Navi
NaoTrac, a CE-certified neurosurgical navigation robot from Brain Navi Biotechnology, has achieved approval from Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), and submission to the...
Silk Vista Baby demonstrates safety and effectiveness in PICA aneurysm treatment
Following a retrospective review of databases from multiple different centres, researchers have reported the safe and effective use of the Silk Vista Baby (Balt)...
NICO announces new distributor for neurosurgery markets in Australia and New...
NICO Corporation recently announced that it has partnered with Imedcare, an Australia-based supplier and distributor of devices, as its distributor for the neurosurgery markets in the medical...
Pedro Lylyk
Pedro Lylyk’s work and achievements in the neurosurgical field have spanned several decades, and range from a momentous intracranial stent placement in 1996, to...
Artificial intelligence tutoring outperforms expert instructors in neurosurgical training
Against the backdrop of remote learning technologies becoming increasingly important within medical training during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found that—in a...
AiM Medical Robotics raises US$3.4 million to accelerate MRI-compatible robotics platform
AiM Medical Robotics recently announced that it has raised US$3.4 million in seed funding, led by IQ Capital and Surrey Capital Partners. Other investors include The...
Zeta Surgical secures US$5.2 million to enhance AI-driven neurosurgical technologies
Zeta Surgical has announced the close of US$5.2 million in seed financing—and will use these funds to finalise development of its neurosurgical navigation platform, Zeta,...
Latest data reinforce evidence on safety and effectiveness of Contour intra-aneurysmal...
Fresh data from the CERUS study—the first multicentre clinical trial evaluating safety and effectiveness outcomes with the Contour neurovascular system (Cerus Endovascular)—have indicated “encouraging...
CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system approved for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in...
Accuray has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Shonin) to market the CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system for the treatment of...
ClaroNav receives Chinese regulatory clearance for Navient neuro-navigation system
ClaroNav Kolahi—a subsidiary of ClaroNav—has received regulatory clearance from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to market and sell its Navient cranial model in...
Indian health ministry approves Exablate Neuro focused ultrasound platform
Insightec has announced its incisionless neurosurgery platform, the Exablate 4000, has received market approval by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)—part of the Ministry...
NeuroOne successfully completes feasibility study of Evo ablation electrode
NeuroOne Medical Technologies has announced the successful completion of an animal feasibility study of its combination recording and ablation technology at T3 Labs and...
Postoperative admission of adult craniotomy patients to neuroscience ward reduces length...
Admitting adult craniotomy patients without significant comorbidities, who are expected to have a short length of stay, to the neuroscience ward has been associated...
Neurosurgery with Surgical Theater’s VR and AR technologies set for first...
Rambam Healthcare Medical Center in Haifa, Israel is set to become the first medical centre in Israel to use virtual reality (VR) and augmented...
Michael Chen becomes 26th president of SNIS
Michael Chen, a neurointerventionist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA, has been named the president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS)...
Revolution in neurotherapy? Spotlight on focused ultrasound at 2021 EAN congress
While focused ultrasound is by no means a brand-new innovation in the field of neurotherapy—having first been deployed in the 1950s, if not earlier,...
SNIS 2021: Remote stroke interventions raise several unique ethical challenges
At the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s 18th annual meeting (SNIS; July 26–29 2021, Colorado Springs, USA and virtual), Jeffrey Saver, professor of Neurology at...
Research shows new surgical technology may help reduce brain aneurysm regrowth
A new tool for treating brain aneurysms may protect artery blood flow during surgery and reduce the risk of aneurysm regrowth, according to a...
Neuro42 closes US$6.5 million Series A financing round
Neuro42, a US medical technology start-up focused on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and robotics, has announced the close of a US$6.5 million Series A...
Omniscient Neurotechnology launches Quicktome brain-mapping platform following FDA clearance
Omniscient Neurotechnology has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for Quicktome—a digital brain-mapping platform that allows neurosurgeons to visualise and understand...
Omniscient Neurotechnology raises AUD$40 million in Series B financing
Omniscient Neurotechnology, a Sydney-based brain-mapping technology company, has announced the completion of a AUD$40 million Series B financing round. The funding will allow Omniscient...
Data from 1,000 aneurysms indicate Pipeline Embolization Device is safe and...
The endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms using the Pipeline Embolization Device (PED; Medtronic) has been deemed safe and effective following a study involving data...
Livestreamed procedures close distance between clinicians and trainees during pandemic
Phil Taussky outlines a simple yet effective livestreaming platform that holds benefits for neurosurgeons during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
One of the challenges faced by...
Medtronic and Surgical Theater to provide first real-time AR platform for...
Medtronic will partner with American health technology firm Surgical Theater to provide the first augmented reality (AR) platform for use in real time during...
Laboratory evaluation of a robotic operative microscope: A visualisation platform for...
Operative microscopes have become fundamental to the success of modern neurosurgical and other surgical specialty procedures. They have become active platforms for the development...
Medtronic announces voluntary worldwide recall of its StrataMR adjustable valves and...
Medtronic has announced that on 22 February, 2017 it notified customers of a voluntary recall of all unused units of the StrataMR adjustable valves...
