Avinger Inc

NASDAQ:AVGR

Avinger, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical device company, which engages in the designs, manufactures and sells image-guided, catheter-based systems that are used by physicians to treat patients with peripheral artery disease. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California and currently employs 74 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-01-30. The firm designs, manufactures, and sells real-time, image-guided, minimally invasive catheter-based systems that are used by physicians to treat patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Its image-guided Lumivascular platform includes the Lightbox real-time imaging console, the Ocelot family of catheters, which are image-guided catheters designed to allow physicians to penetrate a total blockage in an artery, known as a chronic total occlusion (CTO), and the Pantheris family of catheters, its image-guided atherectomy family of catheters designed to allow physicians to remove arterial plaque in PAD patients. Its Pantheris is a single-use product and provides physicians with the ability to see a cross-sectional view of the peripheral artery to guide the removal of blockages throughout the procedure. The company has also developed a line extension of its Pantheris image-guided atherectomy platform, Pantheris SV (Small Vessel).