Johnson & Johnson MedTech launches catheter system for stroke

Johnson & Johnson MedTech (NYSE: JNJ)+ announced today that it launched the CereGlide 92 catheter system for treating acute ischemic stroke.

The launch comes just one day after media reports suggested that the company wants to sell its Cerenovus stroke business, the unit that makes the CereGlide system.

CereGlide 92, a next-generation .092″ catheter, features the InnerGlide 9 delivery aid. Its indication covers facilitating the insertion and guidance of interventional devices in the neurovascular system. The inner diameter catheter system allows physicians to achieve large distal access. Johnson & Johnson designed it to provide flow reduction in the M1 when inserting devices for the revascularization of patient with acute ischemic stroke.

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