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To: Jay Lyons who wrote (6429)1/14/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: AlienTech  Respond to of 43080
 
Possis Medical Begins Trial On AngioJet Stroke Treatment Pdt

MINNEAPOLIS (Dow Jones)--Possis Medical Inc. (POSS) began treating patients with its AngioJet Rheolytic Thrombectomy System for carotid stroke in its ReACT clinical trial.
In a press release Thursday, Possis said the ReACT trial, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1988, calls for the treatment of 10 patients for acute stroke at up to five hospitals.
The medical device company plans to enroll patients during the second half of the yearin a broader clinical trial investigating the use of AngioJet in more common strokes, it said.
AngioJet removes clots in the brain to restore blood flow.
(END) DOW JONES NEWS 01-14-99
11:19 AM