Avinger Inc

Description

Avinger, Inc., a medical device company, engages in developing catheter-based technologies for treating vascular diseases. It offers Wildcat, a catheter that helps physicians in treating peripheral artery disease. The company also produces the Lightbox imaging console, the Ocelot family of catheters, which are designed to allow physicians to penetrate a total blockage in an artery, known as a chronic total occlusion (CTO), and Pantheris, an image-guided atherectomy device which is designed to allow physicians to precisely remove arterial plaque in PAD patients. The company was founded in 2007 by John B. Simpson and is based in Redwood City, California.