Developing Low-Pressure Balloons for Vascular Procedures
Supporting next-generation vascular delivery systems with compliant balloon solutions optimized for minimally invasive procedures. Medical device delivery systems are being designed to navigate increasingly complex anatomy while minimizing trauma and improving procedural control. In many of these systems, low-pressure balloons play a critical role, not as precision dilators, but as compliant, adaptive components that support […]
Developing Low-Pressure Balloons for General Surgery
Supporting next-generation surgical delivery systems with compliant balloon solutions optimized for minimally invasive procedures. Medical device delivery systems are being designed to navigate increasingly complex anatomy while minimizing trauma and improving procedural control. In many of these systems, low-pressure balloons play a critical role, not as precision dilators, but as compliant, adaptive components that support […]
Designing Vascular Access Sheaths for Complex Interventions
Advancing vascular device performance through optimized low-pressure balloon design. As catheter-based procedures continue to replace open and invasive surgery, delivery systems are being asked to do more than ever before — a shift driven largely in part by rapid advancements in interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular interventions. Procedures for conditions such as peripheral artery disease […]
Designing Catheter Sheaths for General Surgery
Advancing general surgery device performance through optimized low-pressure balloon design. As minimally invasive procedures continue to replace open surgery in many general surgery applications, delivery systems are being asked to do more than ever before. Rapid advancements in endoscopic and laparoscopic techniques are expanding what clinicians can treat through smaller access points, longer instrument paths […]
Solesis Thin and Low Water Permeability Textile Scaffolds with Microdenier Fiber for Cardiovascular Applications SIBF 2025
Advancing Vascular Device Performance Through Applied Polymers and Textiles
The Evolution of Structural Heart Innovations
Structural heart innovations have transformed treatment for patients who once faced open heart surgery as their only option. As minimally invasive procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) gained ground, device developers began facing new engineering challenges to solve: smaller delivery systems, improved sealing performance and reliable manufacturability at scale without compromising quality or patient […]
Sketch To Scale: The Importance Of Relationship-Building At The Prototyping Stage
Medical device and delivery system component suppliers who provide textile- and polymer-based components for Class II & Class III implantable medical devices are critical to a device manufacturer’s success, whether the manufacturer is a large, established organization or a young start-up still in the early stages of research and development (R&D) and prototyping. The product […]
Q&A: Solesis’ Perspectives on Building Strong Textile and Polymer Medical Device Component Partnerships
A conversation with Andrew Metzger, Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy, Solesis In this Q&A, Andrew Metzger, Senior Director, Corporate Strategy, Solesis, explores why medical device manufacturers should partner with an experienced biomaterials supplier that can design, develop, and scale-up textiles and polymer-based solutions for life-saving implantable vascular, general surgery, and biopharma applications. Specifically, Andrew addresses the […]
Developing the Right Low-pressure Balloons for Medical Device Applications
Common Medical Balloon Applications Specialized, custom-shaped low-pressure balloons are commonly used in vascular, general surgery, and/or drug delivery applications, among others, and paired with catheter sheaths to deliver critical devices to save lives. Why low-pressure balloons? Perhaps their biggest benefit is that they have the flexibility to stretch over 600% of their predetermined diameter. This […]