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401 Plymouth Road, Suite 130
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 USA
phone:877.639.2796
fax:877.510.7757
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| www.galil-medical.com
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Medical Devices & Tech |
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| Summary Description |
| A cryotherapy platform as a minimally invasive alternative to some surgeries. |
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| Management |
| Martin J. Emerson, President & CEO; Karen Sarid, CFO, COO and General Manager Galil Medical Israel; Rosie Cunningham Thomas, President & General Manager Galil Medical Europe; Natan Karmon, Vice President Research & Development; Bill Jacqmein, VP WW Clinical and Regulatory Affairs |
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| Keywords |
| cryotherapy, minimally invasive, urology, advamed |
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| Description |
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Galil Medical develops, manufactures and markets a cryotherapy platform incorporating freezing technology and needle design as a minimally invasive alternative to surgery for various clinical applications. |
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| Technology / Differentiation |
| Galil Medical's technology, adopted originally from military applications, involves freezing and ablating diseased tissue in a technique referred to as cryotherapy, also referred to as cryoablation and cryosurgery. The core technology is based on the Joule-Thomson effect (JT), in which compressed gas causes significant and fast temperature changes.
Galil Medical cryotherapy systems use compressed Argon gas to produce extremely low temperatures. As the gas passes through the cryoablation needle, the tip of the needle is cooled, forming an iceball, which engulfs the tumor and destroys the tissue. A variety of needle types is available to sculpt a freeze zone conformed to the tumor size and shape. Galil Medical cryosurgical systems precisely deliver sub-zero temperatures to target tissue with the aid of patented 17-gauge cryoablation needles and high-resolution imaging for the cryosurgical ablation of benign and cancerous tumors. The integration of high resolution imaging with ultrasound, CT, or MR enables a high level of control for needle placement and positioning, iceball formation in real-time and the freezing process during minimally invasive surgery. |
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Cryotherapy ablation has been widely used for prostate cancer treatment and kidney cancer treatment. New ablation treatments for various other tumors are being developed in the Women's Health and Interventional Radiology markets.
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