October 27, 2022

Huawei’s Yang Chaobin Launches All-Band 5G Solution Series

BANGKOK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — At the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2022 (MBBF2022), Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei ICT Products & Solutions and Huawei Wireless Solution, releases One 5G concept and set of solutions designed to facilitate the evolution of all bands to 5G. “5G is in the fast lane,” Mr. Yang said. “The future calls for the evolution of all bands to 5G. Huawei’s All-Band 5G Solution series will help customers build 5G networks with optimal performance, ultimate experiences, and minimal energy consumption.”

5G has been commercialized for three years. It has developed rapidly in terms of network coverage, devices, and user scale. 5G delivers a more HD and immersive digital experience to consumers, and has accelerated digital transformation across industries. It has improved the way people work and the production efficiency of industries. In terms of 5G network construction, operators focused on TDD and mmWave development during the initial phase, but recently TDD+FDD convergence has been the choice for most operators.

Moving forward, all connections and services will evolve to 5G, and so will all bands. Huawei has developed the One 5G concept and solutions to maximize the capabilities of all bands, and facilitate in-depth coordination between bands, which lays the groundwork for the construction of efficient and cost-effective 5G networks.

MetaAAU with ELAA Improves TDD Uplink and Downlink Coverage While Reducing Energy Consumption

Combination of TDD high bandwidth and Massive MIMO has enabled cross-generation 5G experience. It is important to provide better coverage and higher capacity with lower energy consumption, which has inspired a series of new TDD Massive MIMO solutions.

Huawei’s MetaAAU boosts performance and energy efficiency to new levels, by making use of extremely large antenna array (ELAA) technology, as well as innovative software and hardware coordination. MetaAAU has been deployed at scale around the world. It has been proven to boost uplink and downlink coverage and user experience, while consuming less energy.

Products with wider bandwidth will be a must-have for operators to fulfill new band allocation needs and simplify the ultra-wide bandwidth deployment. Huawei’s new 800 MHz MetaAAU supports current deployment on C-Band and enables simplified deployment on future new spectrum.

For scenarios with limited antenna installation space, Huawei provides Meta BladeAAU, which combines Meta and Blade technologies in a unique way, to allow for easy deployment of MetaAAU and all sub-3GHz bands on a single pole, making it ideal for single-antenna scenarios.

Ultra-wideband and Multi-antenna Technologies Simplify Deployment with Fragmented FDD Spectrum and Improve Spectral Efficiency

Legacy FDD bands will continue to evolve to 5G. This process may meet challenges of the fragmented spectrum of narrow-band and co-existence of multi-RATs.

Huawei has been upgrading its ultra-wideband and multi-antenna solution series to help operators simplify deployment, improve spectral efficiency, and provide high-level user experience for all RATs.

Huawei’s ultra-wideband 4T4R RRU supports simplified multi-band network deployment on 700–900 MHz or 1.8–2.6/1.4 GHz, and millisecond-level power sharing across all carriers, bands, and RATs, which reduces power consumption while ensuring GU coverage.

Another Huawei product, ultra-wide band 8T8R RRU can increase 4G and 5G network capacity by 1.5 and 3 times, respectively. Together with the Hertz platform antenna which having built-in signal direct injection feeding (SDIF) technology, 8T8R RRU is able to reduce energy consumption.

For scenarios requiring a large capacity, Huawei provides FDD Massive MIMO AAU, which can increase 4G and 5G network capacity by 3 and 5 times, respectively, enhancing 4G and 5G performance. This product has been commercially deployed at scale on over 70 networks around the world.

For single-pole scenarios, Huawei provides the FDD BladeAAU solution, which is the industry’s first to combine FDD Massive MIMO AAUs and sub-3 GHz passive antennas. It allows for simple deployment on one pole.

LampSite and RuralLink Solutions Enable Ubiquitous 5G

Considering that 70% of wireless network traffic comes from the indoor scenarios, Huawei has developed the LampSite 5.0 solution that features TDD+FDD multi-band and multi-RAT combination. Thanks to a highly-integrated design, LampSite 5.0 reduces hardware weight and volume while reducing power consumption. In addition, mmWave is introduced for the LampSite solution to deliver indoor 10 Gbps capacity based on ultra-wide bandwidth and distributed architecture.

Huawei has also launched the RuralLink solution that is designed for remote areas. With this solution, a single RRU and antenna are all that’s needed to provide rural coverage for three sectors, and microwave fronthaul can save BBU deployment on the site. The inter-site distance between RuralLink site and host site is up to 20 km. With simplified design and ultra-low power consumption, only 6 solar panels are enough to power a single site and remote O&M is supported.

I nnovative mmWave Solution Enables mmWave Commercial Deployment in Outdoor Hotspots and Indoor Scenarios

mmWave spectrum resources are abundant, and more than 140 operators have obtained access to the high-bandwidth spectrum. Outdoor hotspots and indoor environments are typical application scenarios of mmWave.

In outdoor hotspot scenarios, Huawei’s mmWave solution makes use of iBeam and intelligent high- and low-band coordination algorithm to achieve precise beam alignment and fast tracking. Performance under continuous networking reveals that a continuous high user-perceived rate can be delivered in moving vehicles and indoor environments along streets.

In indoor scenarios, Huawei’s LampSite 5.0, supporting 800 MHz mmWave, C-band, and the 1.8 GHz band, works with the distributed architecture, providing an ultra-large capacity of more than 10 Gbps. These new capabilities will also make indoor connections seamless while unlocking the full potential of mmWave.

IntelligentRAN Empowers Intelligent 5G Networks

As all bands evolve to 5G, intelligent networks are needed to support the requirements of diversified services, enhance multi-RAT O&M efficiency, and balance user experience and energy consumption. With layered intelligence architecture, Huawei’s IntelligentRAN helps operators reduce network O&M costs, open network capabilities, and create more business opportunities.

The combination of One 5G all-band solutions and IntelligentRAN unlocks the full potential of all bands including TDD, FDD, and mmWave, and facilitates all-band coordination for better network performance and lower power consumption, following the principle: Bands Work As One and Networks Work As One.

“This is the best of times,” concluded Mr. Yang. “5G is entering a new era. Let’s continue 5G innovation with the goal of fulfilling the vision of reshaping the world with 5G, and stride towards the intelligent world.”

The Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2022 is hosted by Huawei, together with its industry partners GSMA and GTI. This annual forum gathers mobile network carriers, vertical industry leaders, and ecosystem partners from around the world to discuss how to make 5G a commercial success, as well as other high-priority industry topics like green development, intelligence, and 5G evolution. For more information, please visit:

https://www.huawei.com/en/events/mbbf2022.

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October 27, 2022

Huawei’s Wang Jinping: Expand the Experience Dividend Pattern and Lead the Era of Experience-based Network Operations

BANGKOK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The 14th Huawei User Group Meeting was held in Bangkok, Thailand. During the meeting, Wang Jinping, Marketing Director of Huawei NCE Optical Network Domain, delivered a speech saying that Huawei’s Premium Broadband solution can effectively help carriers to implement user experience operations, seize business growth opportunities and provide users with quality experience.

Nowadays users have high requirements for premium HBB experience, and users want a better network experience even if it comes at a higher cost.

Wang Jinping also mentioned that carriers should develop HBB services from the following three aspects:

To meet the requirements of various services and the huge potential user market, apply intelligent technologies to improve the accuracy of identifying potential users and increase the marketing success rate, thus quickly gaining market share.
Ensure the device-network-service matching, construct networks based on user experience requirements, and maximize the return on investment (ROI).
Build capabilities that help perceive user experience to improve HBB user experience and user satisfaction, thereby improving brand reputation and achieving service growth.

To help carriers realize these goals, Huawei launched the Premium Broadband solution outside China for the first time. In this solution, intelligent AEC boards are installed on OLTs to collect application KPIs such as delay and jitter in real time so that user experience can be accurately and effectively perceived. In addition, the collaboration between iMaster NCE (a management, control, and analysis system which provides the big data intelligent analysis capability) and Agile Digital Operations (ADO) helps carriers gain dividends from HBB user experience operations.

Insights into Experience Requirements, Facilitating Marketing Growth

In this solution, the potential user identification model is optimized from being single-dimensional to being multidimensional, helping carriers perceive user experience requirements. Accordingly, the marketing department can formulate marketing strategies to meet user requirements.

Device-Network-Service Matching, Facilitating Orderly Network Upgrades

In this solution, carriers can further ensure the correctness of device-network-service mapping, upgrade networks in an orderly manner, and provide basic assurance for high-quality HBB connections and optimal experience.

Minutes-level Experience Perception, Improving Passive Responses to Proactive Services

This solution integrates the upgraded perception capability, which implements minutes-level perception of poor-QoE issues. It changes the passive perception mode to the brand-new proactive experience perception and assurance mode, helping carriers to improve the user retention rate and user satisfaction.

The Premium Broadband solution has been widely commercially deployed in China. In Henan, the marketing success rate increased from 3% to 10% and the network ROI was improved by 40%. In Zhejiang, the poor-QoE rate decreased from 4.3% to 2.7% and complaints per 10,000 users decreased from 165 to 95.

According to Wang Jinping, through solution enablement and joint verification of best practices, user experience operations will truly facilitate development, further broaden business boundaries, and expand the dividend pattern.

CONTACT: Peng Cai, felix.cai@huawei.com

October 27, 2022October 28, 2022

UN: Greenhouse Gas Cuts Needed to Prevent Climate Catastrophe

GENEVA – A U.N. report warns the window for preventing a climate catastrophe is fast closing. The U.N. Environment Program’s latest Emissions Gap Report urges unprecedented cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and a rapid transformation of societies to head off the worst.

The U.N. report finds the world is falling far short of the Paris climate goals agreement, with no credible pathway for limiting a temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said progress since last year’s climate change conference, COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, has been woefully inadequate. She said nations have failed to deliver on their pledges for greater emissions cuts.

She noted greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 45 percent by 2030 to stop climate change. However, instead of stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level, she said temperatures will likely rise 2.4 to 2.6 degrees by 2100.

“We are sliding from climate crisis to climate disaster. This report is sending us a very, very clear message. If we are serious about climate change, we need to kickstart a system-wide transformation now. We need a root and branch redesign of the electricity sector, of the transport sector, of the building sector, and food systems.”

Additionally, she said financial systems must be reformed so they can bankroll the required transformations. She says incremental changes no longer are an option. Bold action must be taken now.

Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Peterri Talaas called the transformational changes doable. He noted the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, earlier this year reported that prices of climate-friendly energy solutions have been dropping.

“Nowadays, it is cheaper to invest in solar or wind energy as compared to the fossil energy. And the good news is also that 32 countries have reduced their emissions during the past 15 years, whereas their economies have been growing. So, there is not an automatic connection between economic growth and emissions growth.”

He mentioned European countries, the United States, Japan, and Singapore as some of the countries that have managed to grow their economies while reducing emissions.

Environmental experts estimate a global transformation to a low-emissions economy is expected to require investments of at least $4 trillion to $6 trillion a year. They are urging nations attending next week’s COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to agree to foot the bill and to up their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Voice of America

October 27, 2022October 28, 2022

Hawaii’s Big Island Gets Warning as Huge Volcano Rumbles

Hawaii officials are warning residents of the Big Island that the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, is sending signals that it may erupt.

Scientists say an eruption isn’t imminent, but they are on alert because of a recent spike in earthquakes at the volcano’s summit. Experts say it would take just a few hours for lava to reach homes closest to vents on the vo

.emergency. They recommend having a “go” bag with food, identifying a place to stay once they leave home and making a plan for reuniting with family members.

“Not to panic everybody, but they have to be aware of that you live on the slopes of Mauna Loa. There’s a potential for some kind of lava disaster,” said Talmadge Magno, the administrator for Hawaii County Civil Defense.

The volcano makes up 51% of the Hawaii Island landmass, so a large portion of the island has the potential to be affected by an eruption, Magno said.

There’s been a surge of development on the Big Island in recent decades — its population has more than doubled to 200,000 today from 92,000 in 1980 — and many newer residents weren’t around when Mauna Loa last erupted 38 years ago. All the more reason why Magno said officials are spreading the word about the science of the volcano and urging people to be prepared.

Mauna Loa, rising 13,679 feet (4,169 meters) above sea level, is the much larger neighbor to Kilauea volcano, which erupted in a residential neighborhood and destroyed 700 homes in 2018. Some of its slopes are much steeper than Kilauea’s so when it erupts, its lava can flow much faster.

During a 1950 eruption, the mountain’s lava traveled 15 miles (24 kilometers) to the ocean in less than three hours.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, said Mauna Loa has been in a state of “heightened unrest” since the middle of last month when the number of summit earthquakes jumped from 10 to 20 per day to 40 to 50 per day.

Scientists believe more earthquakes are occurring because more magma is flowing into Mauna Loa’s summit reservoir system from the hot spot under the earth’s surface that feeds molten rock to Hawaii’s volcanoes.

The temblors have declined in frequency in recent days but could rise again.

More than 220 people attended a community meeting last weekend that county civil defense officials held in Ocean View, a neighborhood that lava could reach in hours if molten rock erupts through vents on Mauna Loa’s southwest flank.

Bob Werner, an Ocean View resident who didn’t attend the meeting, said it’s wise to be aware of a possible eruption but not to fear it. He’s not concerned that the neighborhood would be completely cut off, if lava flows across the only road connecting it to the bigger towns of Kailua-Kona and Hilo, where many people do their shopping.

The “greater concern is it will be extremely annoying to drive an extra hour or two hours to get the same stuff,” he said.

Ryan Williams, the owner of the Margarita Village bar in Hilo, said the volcanic unrest wasn’t worrying customers who are used to warnings.

There could still be a heightened sense of urgency since officials have been holding town hall meetings, urging people to prepare.

“But everything I’ve read or heard, they trying to kind of assure people that conditions have not changed,” Williams said. “There’s no imminent eruption, but just to be alert.”

Magno said his agency is talking to residents now because communities closest to vents likely wouldn’t have enough time to learn how to respond and prepare once the observatory raises its alert level to “watch,” which means an eruption is imminent.

The current alert level is “advisory” meaning the volcano is showing signs of unrest yet there’s no indication an eruption is likely or certain.

Residents in other parts of the island would have more time to react.

Lava from Mauna Loa’s northeast flank could take days or weeks to reach residential communities. That’s because the mountain’s slopes on that side are relatively gentle and because towns are farther from volcanic vents.

Frank Trusdell, research geologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said all of Mauna Loa’s eruptions in recorded history have started in its summit crater. About half of them stayed there, while the other half later spewed lava from vents lower down the mountain.

Lava erupting from the summit generally doesn’t travel far enough to reach residential areas.

Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843. It last erupted in 1984 when lava flowed down its eastern flank only to stop 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) short of Hilo, the Big Island’s most populous town.

Mauna Loa also has a history of disgorging huge volumes of lava.

In the 1950 eruption, which lasted for 23 days, Mauna Loa released 1,000 cubic meters (1,307 cubic yards) of lava per second. In contrast, Kilauea released 300 cubic meters (392 cubic yards) per second in 2018.

The earthquakes could continue for a while before any eruption: increased seismic activity lasted for a year before a 1975 eruption and a year-and-a-half before the 1984 one. Alternatively, the temblors could subside and Mauna Loa may not erupt this time.

Trusdell said residents should look at his agency’s maps and learn how quickly lava may show up in their neighborhood. He also urged people living in one of the short-notice areas to pay attention if the summit turns red.

“All you got to do is look up there and see the glow. You grab your stuff, throw it in the car and drive. Go!” he said.

They can always go home after if the lava ultimately doesn’t flow into their neighborhood, he said.

Source: Voice of America

October 27, 2022

Arthur D. Little Publishes New Report On Innovation In Life Sciences

LONDON, Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arthur D. Little (ADL) has launched a report on current and future transformation in healthcare, and the effect these far-reaching changes will have on the life sciences and insurance sectors. To asssess that from more than one perspective, ADL and Munich Re, a leading provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions, have pooled their expertise and recommendations.

The combination of aging populations, changing urban and work environments, technical innovations in data processing and analysis, and current advances in diagnosing and treating diseases will not only dramatically transform healthcare but also our way of living. Healthcare systems and wider society must therefore prepare for these innovations to ensure preparedness and greater resilience.

Disruptive developments such as digitization, far-reaching advances in medical technology, and the latest findings in life sciences interrelate and reinforce each other to an unprecedented extent. Consequently, the report sets out how everyone within the ecosystem needs to collaborate around a common goal – bringing innovations to patients faster and pushing the boundaries of insurability.

Describing the impacts of transformation and providing insights, imperatives and key takeaways for both the insurance and life sciences industries, the report focuses on opportunities in five key areas of healthcare:

–        Digital Health
–        Advanced therapeutics & new paradigms in treatments
–        Power of genes & omics
–        Mental health
–        Pandemic risk

Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt, Managing Partner, and Global Practice Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Arthur D. Little, comments: “Innovation is driving a revolution at every step of the patient journey. This impacts every player within the life sciences and healthcare industry, including insurance companies. The imperative is on the whole ecosystem to work together to provide positive solutions and mitigate current and future risks, which is why we are delighted that Munich Re has contributed to bring together knowledge, experience and perspectives within this in-depth report.”

Dr. Franziska Thomas, Partner and Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences of Arthur D. Little Germany, comments: “The last two years has seen an enormous acceleration in multiple areas of medicine – and indeed across wider society. The patient journey is transforming to become more personalized and decentralized. As this report explains, it is only through convergence between all areas within the ecosystem that solutions can be delivered to meet the rapidly changing needs of patients.”

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October 27, 2022

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We are advised by Huawei that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, Huawei’s Yang Chaobin Launches All-Band 5G Solution Series, issued 26-Oct-2022 over PR Newswire.

October 27, 2022

GORE COMPLETES ENROLLMENT IN THE GORE® VIABAHN® VBX BALLOON EXPANDABLE ENDOPROSTHESIS EXPAND REGISTRY.

This registry will confirm safety and performance of the VBX Stent Graft in peripheral vessels in patients who require interventional treatment in a variety of applications and diseases.

PUTZBRUNN, Germany, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) announced the completion of target enrollment in the EXPAND Post-Market Registry of the GORE^® VIABAHN^® VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis (VBX Stent Graft). 280 patients at 15 European sites have been enrolled to collect safety and performance data of the VBX Stent Graft to evaluate how the device performs in real-world cases and to continue their commitment to advancing patient care in the treatment of various diseases.

GORE® VIABAHN® VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis

The EXPAND registry

This prospective, multicenter registry offers an opportunity to understand the varied usages for the VBX Stent Graft to treat different pathologies in a wide range of anatomical locations. These include lesion exclusion (non-iatrogenic, such as aneurysmatic disease, or iatrogenic, inclusive of ruptures or perforation), visceral perfusion (including fenestrated/branched bridging stent), luminal reconstruction (arteriovenous fistulas) or occlusive disease with the exception of de novo iliac occlusive disease. De novo iliac occlusive disease was already captured in the Gore VBX FLEX Clinical Study, which reported robust procedural success and durable clinical outcomes through three years, with 96.9% primary patency at nine months and 91.2% freedom from target lesion revascularization (TLR) at three years.

“Currently we do not have real-world data to evaluate the variety of covered balloon expandable devices in the different anatomies. Using EXPAND to understand the safety and performance of the VBX Stent Graft in these anatomical locations, alongside the VBX FLEX trial, is key to determining future treatment options for our vascular patients with this device”, said Prof. Mauro Gargiulo, Chair of Metropolitan Unit of Vascular Surgery at IRCCS S. Orsola Hospital in Bologna and Principal Investigator of the Registry.

Patients enrolled in EXPAND registry will be followed for five years, with a primary endpoint evaluating procedural success and freedom from VBX Stent Graft-related serious adverse event at 30 days, and secondary endpoints on safety and efficacy through five years.

“The EXPAND registry will help us advance our patient care and improve our clinical outcomes based on the long-term real-world evidence it will provide”, commented Dr. Martin Austermann, Director of the Clinic for Vascular Surgery at St. Franziskus Hospital in Münster, the site that has enrolled the most number of patients. “Of considerable appeal is evaluating the use of the VBX Stent Graft as a bridging stent for complex aortic fenestrated and branched endovascular repair. Gore is the first company with a real-world registry capturing these categories and whose one year follow-up has recently been presented at Charing Cross and LINC congresses.” continued Dr. Austermann.

GORE^® VIABAHN^® VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis offers precise delivery and supports positive outcomes in complex aortoiliac applications. The device was developed utilizing the small diameter, ePTFE stent graft technology from the GORE^® VIABAHN^® Endoprosthesis. The VBX Stent Graft is available in a range of diameters from 5 to 11 mm and lengths of 15, 19, 29, 39, 59 and 79 mm to cover a wide variety of treatment needs.

EXPAND is part of Gore’s dedication to post-market surveillance and monitoring long-term device performance in an effort to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes. Data will be representative of real-world, clinical use. Real-world clinical use data are integral for Gore, combined with data from long-term clinical investigations and reports from medical literature, to perform continuing assessments of device performance in addition to any long-term clinical investigations as well as reports in medical journals and congress presentations.

“EXPAND provides an invaluable resource not only for Gore, but also for our physicians,” said Jenny Hoffmann, Gore Peripheral Business Leader. “We are committed to collecting real-world data on our devices, and through sharing it with the wider physician community, it allows us to truly realise our vision of Together, improving life.”

For more information about the GORE^® VIABAHN^® VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis, visit https://www.goremedical.com/eu/products/vbx

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Gore engineers medical devices that treat a range of cardiovascular and other health conditions. With more than 50 million medical devices implanted over the course of more than 45 years, Gore builds on its legacy of improving patient outcomes through research, education and quality initiatives. Product performance, ease of use and quality of service provide sustainable cost savings for physicians, hospitals and insurers. Gore is joined in service with clinicians and through this collaboration we are improving lives.

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W. L. Gore & Associates is a global materials science company dedicated to transforming industries and improving lives. Since 1958, Gore has solved complex technical challenges in demanding environments — from outer space to the world’s highest peaks to the inner workings of the human body. With more than 11,000 Associates and a strong, team-oriented culture, Gore generates annual revenues of $3.8 billion.

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October 27, 2022

GORE CLÔTURE L’ENREGISTREMENT DES PATIENTS DANS LE REGISTRE DE L’ENDOPROTHÈSE EXPANSIBLE SUR BALLONNET GORE® VIABAHN® VBX.

Ce registre confirmera l’innocuité et la performance de l’endoprothèse VBX dans les vaisseaux périphériques chez les patients qui nécessitent un traitement chirurgical dans une variété d’applications et de maladies.

PUTZBRUNN, Allemagne, 27 octobre 2022/PRNewswire/ — W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) a annoncé l’achèvement du recrutement cible dans le registre post-commercialisation EXPAND de l’Endoprothèse expansible sur ballonnet GORE® VIABAHN® VBX (endoprothèse VBX). 280 patients sur 15 sites européens ont été enrôlés pour recueillir les données d’innocuité et de performance de l’endoprothèse VBX afin d’évaluer comment le dispositif se comporte dans des cas réels et de poursuivre leur engagement à faire progresser les soins apportés aux patients dans le traitement de diverses maladies.

Le registre EXPAND

Ce registre prospectif et multicentrique offre l’opportunité de comprendre les utilisations variées de l’endoprothèse VBX pour traiter différentes pathologies dans un large éventail de localisations anatomiques. Il s’agit notamment de l’exclusion de lésions (non iatrogènes, comme la maladie anévrismale, ou iatrogènes, incluant les ruptures ou les perforations), de la perfusion viscérale (dont l’endoprothèse de pontage fenestrée/ramifiée), de la reconstruction luminale (fistules artérioveineuses) ou de la maladie occlusive à l’exception de la maladie occlusive iliaque de novo. Cette dernière a déjà été prise en compte dans l’étude clinique VBX FLEX de Gore, qui a fait état d’un solide succès procédural et de résultats cliniques durables sur trois ans, avec 96,9 % de perméabilité primaire à neuf mois et 91,2 % d’absence de revascularisation de la lésion cible (TLR) à trois ans.

« Actuellement, nous ne disposons pas de données issues du monde réel pour évaluer la variété des dispositifs expansibles à ballonnet couvert dans les différentes anatomies. L’utilisation d’EXPAND pour comprendre l’innocuité et la performance de l’endoprothèse VBX dans ces emplacements anatomiques, parallèlement à l’essai VBX FLEX, est essentielle pour déterminer les futures options de traitement de nos patients vasculaires avec ce dispositif », a déclaré le professeur Mauro Gargiulo, président de l’unité métropolitaine de chirurgie vasculaire de l’hôpital IRCCS S. Orsola de Bologne et chercheur principal du Registre.

Les patients inscrits dans le registre EXPAND seront suivis pendant cinq ans, avec un critère primaire évaluant le succès de la procédure et l’absence d’événement indésirable grave lié à l’endoprothèse VBX à 30 jours, et des critères secondaires sur la sécurité et l’efficacité pendant cinq ans.

« Le registre EXPAND nous aidera à faire progresser les soins prodigués à nos patients et à améliorer nos résultats cliniques grâce aux preuves réelles à long terme qu’il fournira », a commenté le Dr Martin Austermann, directeur de la clinique de chirurgie vasculaire de l’hôpital St. Franziskus de Münster, le site qui a recruté le plus grand nombre de patients. « L’évaluation de l’utilisation de l’endoprothèse VBX comme endoprothèse de pontage pour les réparations endovasculaires complexes fenestrées et ramifiées de l’aorte présente un intérêt considérable. Gore est la première société à disposer d’un registre du monde réel capturant ces catégories et dont le suivi à un an a récemment été présenté aux congrès Charing Cross et LINC », poursuit le Dr Austermann.

L’Endoprothèse expansible sur ballonnet GORE® VIABAHN® VBX offre une pose précise et favorise des résultats positifs dans les applications aorto-iliaques complexes. Le dispositif a été développé en utilisant la technologie d’endoprothèse de petit diamètre en PTFE expansé de l’endoprothèse GORE^® VIABAHN^®. L’endoprothèse VBX est disponible dans une gamme de diamètres de 5 à 11 mm et de longueurs de 15, 19, 29, 39, 59 et 79 mm pour couvrir une grande variété de besoins de traitement.

L’étude EXPAND fait partie de l’engagement de Gore dans la surveillance post-commercialisation et le suivi des performances à long terme des dispositifs dans le but d’améliorer la pratique clinique et les résultats pour les patients. Les données seront représentatives d’une utilisation clinique réelle. Les données relatives à l’utilisation clinique en situation réelle font partie intégrante de l’évaluation continue des performances des dispositifs par Gore. Elles sont combinées aux données issues des investigations cliniques à long terme et aux rapports de la littérature médicale, en plus de toute investigation clinique à long terme ainsi que des rapports publiés dans les revues médicales et des présentations de congrès.

« EXPAND constitue une ressource inestimable non seulement pour Gore, mais aussi pour nos médecins », a déclaré Jenny Hoffmann, responsable des activités périphériques de Gore. « Nous nous engageons à collecter des données du monde réel sur nos dispositifs, et en les partageant avec la communauté élargie des médecins, cela nous permet de réaliser véritablement notre vision de Together, improving life (Ensemble, améliorons la vie). »

Pour plus d’informations sur l’Endoprothèse expansible sur ballonnet GORE® VIABAHN® VBX, visitez le site https://www.goremedical.com/eu/products/vbx

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Gore conçoit des dispositifs médicaux qui traitent toute une série d’affections cardiovasculaires et autres. Avec plus de 50 millions de dispositifs médicaux implantés au cours de plus de 45 ans, Gore s’appuie sur son héritage pour améliorer les résultats des patients par le biais de la recherche, de l’éducation et des initiatives de qualité. La performance des produits, leur facilité d’utilisation et la qualité de leur service permettent aux médecins, aux hôpitaux et aux assureurs de réaliser des économies durables. Gore est au service des cliniciens et, grâce à cette collaboration, nous améliorons des vies.

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À propos de Gore

W. L. Gore & Associates est une entreprise mondiale de science des matériaux qui se consacre à la transformation des industries et à l’amélioration des vies. Depuis 1958, Gore a résolu des défis techniques complexes dans des environnements exigeants – de l’espace aux plus hauts sommets du monde en passant par le fonctionnement interne du corps humain. Avec plus de 11 000 associés et une forte culture d’équipe, Gore génère des revenus annuels de 3,8 milliards de dollars.

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