ARTICLE SUMMARY:
With a novel application of pulsed field ablation, Mirai Medical enables clinicians with GI endoscopy skills to safely treat the disease they find during screening and diagnostic procedures.
GI endoscopy is unique among diagnostic and screening procedures in enabling clinicians, upon encountering suspicious polyps, to effectively treat some before sending patients home. But the ability of most endoscopists to remove, at the time of diagnosis, all premalignant cases, is limited by the fragility of the environment in which they’re working, the size of thepolyp and the high level of skills required to resect tissue endoscopically in the gastrointestinal tract.
Colonoscopy is an expensive and somewhat invasive diagnostic procedure that is not entirely without risks; it requires patients to undergo deep sedation, as well as pre-procedure preparation that includes fasting and other colon cleansing methods. So, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to safely combine screening and effective treatment in a single outpatient visit without having to refer patients to surgery?
