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How Shockwave’s Javelin IVL catheter breaks up blood-blocking calcium where balloons can’t reach

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Shockwave’s novel Javelin intravascular lithotripsy catheter focuses acoustic energy forward to clear a path through calcium-clogged blood vessels.

An illustration of the Shockwave Medical Javelin peripheral intravascular lithotripsy catheter breaking up calcium in blocked blood vessels.
Shockwave Medical designed the Javelin peripheral intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) catheter to break up calcium in blood vessels through which previous IVL devices could not pass. [Illustration courtesy of Johnson & Johnson MedTech]
Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Shockwave Medical aims to deliver intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) to a different type of blood vessel with a first-of-its-kind catheter platform.

The Javelin Peripheral IVL catheter features new technology for modifying calcium and crossing extremely narrowed vessels in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Shockwave says the novel, non-balloon IVL platform delivers a similar safety and efficacy profile as its legacy catheters, bolstering the device developer’s market-leading IVL portfolio.

“We believe this technology has the ability to transform the way that physicians are able to treat patients with peripheral vascular disease,” Shockwave Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nick West said in a Medical Design & Outsourcing interview. “We hope that we’re answering a clear unmet need not just from physicians, but from the patients they also serve.”

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About Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand is the managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing. He has more than 15 years of professional journalism experience spanning newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcast news. For nearly a decade, he reported and edited business news for American City Business Journals as a reporter and digital editor at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and then managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. He is based near Seattle in Edmonds, Washington, where he and his family live. Connect with him on LinkedIn or by email at jimhammerand@wtwhmedia.com.