con't:
"small highly dense focal calcium then rotational atherectomy has an advantage there as it does in coronary." Emile Geisenheimer SPNC CEO's CC response to:

Jason Mills - Canaccord Adams

So that's helpful. CSI talked about in their conference call, specifically having an advantage treating calcium, their revenue in the quarter suggested they gained quite a bit of share. And specifically how you're addressing customer questions as it relates to their claim to have the treat calcium better? http://seekingalpha.com/article/121600-s...

SPNC CEO: "Coronary
atherectomy, which represents approximately 15% of a total, is going
rapidly of renewed physician interest in our products in the segment.
With respect to coronaries, our device is particularly effective
in dealing with thrombus and you may recall that in our PMA label, we
have an individualization of use for treatment of acute thrombus AMI
and low injection low injection fraction. The number of physicians have become very interested in this area and
are using the device for those kinds of applications and that has led
to increasing interest in fixing of coronary catheters." ...
"Amit, I can answer the coronary training fees. Certainly there is a
big focus from our sales organization to reestablish our training
programs as it relates to coronary and the objective here is really to
get more physicians involved, get them trained and as I think what's
actually been most effective for us, is actually having the sales
representative be with the physician when he goes through this
training, so that there is plenty of follow-up post training as well,
so it has been very effective for us."
http://seekingalpha.com/article/135882-t...

“Excimer laser in acute myocardial infarction: Single centre experience on 66 patients,” concludes that “Laser angioplasty is feasible, safe and effective for the challenging treatment of patients with AMI and thrombus-laden lesions. The acute effects on coronary epicardial and myocardial reperfusion are excellent.”
ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed