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Asahi Intecc’s medical devices

Asahi Intecc develops and sells a variety of medical devices needed for catheterization. Typical Asahi Intecc medical devices include the following products.

For cardiovascular treatment

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  PCI guide wires

  PCI guide wires are the guides necessary to carry PCI balloon catheters and stents that pass through blood vessels that have become clogged or narrowed for catheter treatment.

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  PCI guiding catheters

  PCI guiding catheters are tubes that are placed in the area from the puncture site to the coronary artery. It plays an important role of safely carrying PCI guide wires, PCI balloon catheters and other medical devices to the entrance of the coronary artery.

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  Penetration catheters

  Penetration catheters are catheters that assist the passage of PCI guide wires when PCI guide wires need to pass though clogged blood vessels.

For non-cardiovascular treatment

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  Peripheral vascular guidewire

  Our wire serves as an essential guide for delivering balloon catheters and other medical devices to lesions when treating peripheral vascular disease.

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  Guide wires for cerebrovascular vessels

  These guide wires are necessary to carry micro catheters and other various medical devices to affected areas for treatment inside cerebrovascular vessels such as for cerebral aneurysm.

Minimally-invasive treatment

Minimally-invasive treatment is treatment that minimizes pain, bleeding, fevers, etc. It is a treatment that is easy on patients physically, treating many patients that had been relying on surgery, without hurting their bodies as much as possible using catheters and endoscopes through the advancement of medical technology, as well as economically, as it allows early social rehabilitation and shortens hospital stay periods.

PCI

PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) is the main method of treatment of coronary stenosis. It is a method where a balloon catheter is inserted in the coronary artery and the narrowed area is opened by inflating a balloon. In recent years such is referred to as PCI, including treatment methods and stenosis removal using stents.

3 treasures indispensable for PCI treatment

①PCI guide wires

PCI guide wires are the guides necessary to carry PCI balloon catheters, stents and other medical devices that pass through blood vessels that have become clogged or narrowed for catheter treatment.

②PCI guiding catheters

PCI guiding catheters are tubes that are placed in the area from the puncture site to the coronary artery. It plays an important role of safely carrying PCI guide wires, PCI balloon catheters and other medical devices to the entrance of the coronary artery.

③PCI balloon catheters

PCI balloon catheters are catheters for spreading open blood vessels that have become clogged or narrowed. They are inserted along PCI guide wires and it has the function of opening blood vessels from the inside by inflating the balloon on the tip with a diameter of 1mm to 5mm.

CTO

CTO (chronic total occlusion) is a disease where a blood vessel has been completely clogged for a long period of time. Treatment of this disease has been considered to be extremely difficult among treatments that use catheters. Asahi Intecc developed products effective for CTO, significantly increasing the success rate of treatment. The company became a pioneer in transmitting new trends in CTO treatment from Japan in the medical industry dominated by the West.

Asahi Intecc's source of competitiveness: 4 core technologies

Asahi Intecc is equipped with sophisticated and highly original material processing technologies, principally the 4 core technologies. Among these, the torque technology is the most important. The performance of catheter products are directly linked to the success or failure of surgery. It is Asahi Intecc’s unique torque technology that makes it possible to develop wires that can express the delicate senses of doctors’ hands to the tips. In addition to these technologies, the establishment of an integrated production system handling materials down to the finished products makes possible the development and production of products with the company’s own materials and functions. This is a strength unique to Asahi Intecc that works in the industrial device field in addition to the medical device field and is a significant factor in differentiation with competitors in the medical device field in terms of cost and technology.

Promotional activities by doctors

The treatment effects of Asahi Intecc’s products are being reported by highly influential doctors (key opinion leaders) at academic societies around the world, spreading information that is beneficial to many medical professionals involved in catheter treatment. These doctors travel to countries around the world and conduct promotional activities for treatment technologies through the presentation of cases and demonstrations in which Asahi Intecc’s products are used.