PRESS RELEASE . Nashville, April 5, 2008
Pathfinder
Therapeutics Inc. (PTI) announced today that it will exhibit its
investigational liver surgery platform for the first time at the annual
meeting of the American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), April 19-22 in Las Vegas. At this year’s meeting, AHPBA is running in
conjunction with the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).
The
company's technology, which is not approved by the FDA for sale in the
Image
Guided Surgery (IGS) technology has been commercially available for various
other applications (such as brain surgery) for over a decade. Pathfinder Therapeutics has taken some of
the principles of traditional IGS and solved other key challenges to enable
surgery on abdominal organs, such as the liver.
"The
key to advancing surgery is to offer surgeons technology that truly breaks
new ground," said Paul MacDonald, PTI’s Chief
Executive Officer. "Our platform will eventually allow surgeons to take
an acquired CT or MRI image and use it to plan their surgery. Then, once the
procedure is underway, they can use the PTI system to track tools in realtime as they move in and around the liver.”
By offering
enhanced surgical vision and precision, the PTI system hopes to become
another tool the surgeon can use to address the complexities of surgery in
critical organs, such as the liver. “The AHPBA meeting is our first major
conference. We are excited to have the opportunity to show surgeons and
potential partners the capabilities of PTI’s technology” MacDonald added.
For more
information on Pathfinder Therapeutics Inc., please visit the website at www.2pti.com or contact Paul MacDonald at (615)
783-0094.