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The Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery (PEDD) approach with SmartValve technology has been shown to overcome intratumoral pressure, improving therapy delivery and tumor response.1,2

Overcoming intratumoral pressure (ITP) is key to enabling therapeutic delivery.3,4

Infographic: 1. Interstitial Fluid Pressure (IFP). Elevated IFP often limits the ability of drugs to leave blood vessels and deeply penetrate the tumor tissue.5 2. Solid Stress. Solid stress can collapse blood vessels, preventing anticancer drugs from reaching malignant cells downstream.3 High Intra-Tumoral Pressure.
Infographic: 1. Interstitial Fluid Pressure (IFP). Elevated IFP often limits the ability of drugs to leave blood vessels and deeply penetrate the tumor tissue.5 2. Solid Stress. Solid stress can collapse blood vessels, preventing anticancer drugs from reaching malignant cells downstream.3 High Intra-Tumoral Pressure.

How intratumoral pressure impacts therapy delivery.

Elevated Interstitial fluid pressure (IFP) often limits the ability of drugs to leave blood vessels and deeply penetrate the tumor tissue.5 The resulting heterogeneous intra-tumoral distribution of drugs is correlated with poor prognosis.5,6

There are multiple contributing factors:
Leaky blood vessels cause fluid to seep into the interstitial space with no way out.4

The lymphatic system within tumors is often underdeveloped and cannot drain fluids away.4

Elevated IFP reduces the pressurized movement of fluid from the vessel into the tissue, one mechanism thought to prevent therapeutics from penetrating the tumor mass.4,7

Solid Stress can collapse blood vessels, preventing anticancer drugs from reaching malignant cells downstream.3

  • Tumors are made up of malignant cells, stromal cells, and blood/lymph vessels, all embedded in fibrous material known as the extracellular matrix (ECM).8
  • The proliferation of the ECM and cells results in the development of solid stress.8
  • Solid stress compresses vessels, which may reduce or halt blood flow to many parts of the tumor.8

The ECM and cells can reduce or stop blood flow, limiting drug delivery within the tumor mass.8

SmartValve technology works to help control flow and modulate pressure.

SmartValve is the only technology designed to:

  • Work in sync with the cardiac cycle.9*
  • Preserve more than 70% of forward blood flow with a pulsative response vs total occlusion due to its intermittently occlusive design.9,10†
  • Physiologically and atraumatically increase local vascular pressure at the target location close to the tumor.11‡
  • Infuse therapeutics into resistive tumor vessels to enable deeper perfusion and improve therapeutic delivery.1

Study Designs

*Ultrasound was employed in a porcine model to image tip performance in relation to the cardiac cycle.9
†Simulated bench testing in 1.5 mm vessel at 14 mL/min.10
‡Pressure wire introduced during planning angiogram to measure pressure of PEDD with SmartValve tip collapsed, expanded and during high-pressure saline flush.11

Review clinical data

The PEDD approach with SmartValve technology helps overcome intratumoral pressure (ITP) to improve therapy uptake and tumor response.

Without PEDD
In traditional drug delivery, cardiac output flows through the hepatic and lobar arteries, but significant portions of the tumor are not perfused.12

For illustrative purposes.

With PEDD
PEDD is a proprietary approach that increases intravascular pressure, which may help open collapsed vessels in the tumor to enable deeper perfusion.1,13

For illustrative purposes.

An example of clinical pressure measurement.

A patient demonstration showed that SmartValve increased pressure above the baseline mean arterial pressure. The amount of pressure generated was controlled by the infusion rate to direct therapy into the tumor.11

In a single patient, intra-arterial measurement demonstrated the generation of controllable pressure by PEDD with SmartValve.11

Study Design

Single patient infusion with Pancreatic Infusion System. Pressure continuously monitored during initial positioning at target site, deployment of the PEDD device, and infusion of 3 cc saline bolus.11

See how it works
Graph Representation of Patient Mapping Procedure in a Clinical Trial

Traditional catheters are often limited in their ability to address the high intratumoral pressure (ITP) of solid tumors.14,15

Standard Microcatheter

In a simulation model with standard end-hole (EH) microcatheters, infusion pressure was not increased above systemic pressure.16*

Balloon Catheter

The deployment of a balloon stops blood flow and reduces pressure to the distal vasculature.17 The lack of blood flow during infusion of therapeutic agents may impact distribution and uptake in target tissues.18†

Study Designs

*Mathematical and physical simulation model of blood flow kinetics and pressure.16
†Matched infusions of Lipiodol in porcine kidney (n = 4) with PEDD device, balloon catheter, and microcatheter.18

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References

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