Every day, Boston Scientific works to develop medical innovations in pelvic floor reconstruction, excessive uterine bleeding, and incontinence that may help women lead longer healthier lives. We’re pursuing new ideas in women’s health, and exploring new ways to apply them. We’re changing the way the world thinks about delivering healthcare for women.
The gynecology/women’s health business of Boston Scientific Corporation is a leading developer of medical technologies used by urologists, urogynecologists and gynecologists to treat a variety of urologic and gynecologic conditions. This business develops and manufactures devices for the treatment of such conditions as female urinary incontinence, pelvic floor reconstruction (rebuilding of the anatomy to its original state), and menorrhagia (excessive menstrual bleeding). This business’s devices are used by urologists, urogynecologists and gynecologists to treat:
stress urinary incontinence,
pelvic floor reconstruction,
menorrhagia, and
other women’s health issues
The HTA® System is a hysteroscopic thermal ablation device intended to ablate the endometrial lining of the uterus in pre-menopausal women with menorrhagia (excessive uterine bleeding) due to benign causes for whom childbearing is complete.
Boston Scientific has developed several mid-urethral sling systems designed to treat Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI), including, Advantage® Transvaginal Mid-Urethral Sling System, Lynx® Suprapubic Mid-Urethral Sling System, Obtryx® Transobturator Mid-Urethral Sling System and Prefyx PPS™ System. All these systems use our Advantage® Mesh - The Advantage Mesh is designed to reduce the risks of mesh deformation during tensioning and irritation to the anterior vaginal wall.
Boston Scientific also offers a bulking agent Coaptite® Injectable Implant, indicated for soft tissue augmentation in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD) in adult females. This bulking agent is designed to offer improved procedural ease of use, fewer reinjections, and less material volume versus other approved bulking agents while maintaining the durability characteristics of a synthetic product.
The Capio® PFR Kit includes:
One Capio Suture Capturing Device - Open Access
One Polyform® Mesh or Xenform® Matrix
One TLC® retractor
The Capio PFR Kits provide the physician options for the treatment of pelvic floor reconstruction, based on: patient type, disease state, age, tissue type, and degree of prolapse.
The Capio® Open Access Device can perform a number of PFR procedures (anterior repair, posterior repair, vault prolapse) and can be used multiple times per case to throw sutures, using direct visualization, so that nothing is passed blindly.
Xenform® Tissue Repair Matrix is manufactured from fetal dermal bovine tissues. It was designed to reinforce soft tissues where weakness exists, promoting revascularization and regeneration as opposed to scarring and encapsulation.
Polyform™ Synthetic Mesh is made from uncoated monofilament macroporous Polypropylene. This material is designed to be softer, smoother, thinner, and lighter with increased stretch compared to a leading synthetic mesh for pelvic organ prolapse.
Repliform® Tissue Regeneration Matrix is an acellular human dermal allograft that when surgically implanted is intended to function as a template, facilitating the body's fibroblasts to regenerate normal soft tissue rather than scar.
Coaptite is a registered trademark of Bioform, Inc.
