Boston Scientific Corporation Description
Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. The company offers interventional cardiology products, including coronary stent systems used in the treatment of coronary artery disease; coronary technology products, such as balloon catheters, rotational atherectomy systems, guide wires, guide catheters, embolic protection devices, and diagnostic catheters used in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheters and systems for use in coronary arteries and heart chambers, as well as peripheral vessels; and structural heart therapy systems. It also provides cardiac rhythm management devices consisting of implantable cardioverter defibrillator systems to detect and treat abnormally fast heart rhythms; and implantable pacemaker systems, including implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker systems to treat heart failure. In addition, the company offers endoscopy products, such as devices to treat diseases of the digestive and pulmonary systems; and peripheral interventions to diagnose and treat peripheral vascular disease. Further, it provides stone management products comprising ureteral stents, wires, lithotripsy devices, stone retrieval devices, sheaths, balloons, and catheters to treat urinary stone disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia; and mid-urethral sling products, sling materials, graft materials, pelvic floor reconstruction kits, and suturing devices for women's health. Additionally, it provides neuromodulation products used for the management of chronic pain; and medical technologies used in the diagnosis and treatment of rate and rhythm disorders of the heart, such as radio frequency (RF) generators, steerable RF ablation catheters, intracardiac ultrasound catheters, diagnostic catheters, delivery sheaths, and other accessories. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.
Classification
Sector:
Healthcare
Industry:
Medical Devices
Keywords:
S&P 500
Medicine
Clinical Medicine
Disease
Medical Technology
Catheter
Technology Products
Chronic Pain
Heart Failure
Interventional Radiology
Ultrasound
Cardiology
Neuromodulation
Prosthetics
Ablation
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Artery
Endoscopy
Protection Devices
Medical Technologies
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Biomedical Engineering
Hyperplasia
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Artery Disease
Angiography
Angioplasty
Balloon Catheter
Coronary Artery Disease
Interventional Cardiology
Percutaneous
Neuromodulation Products
Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker
Embolic Protection Device
Endoscopy Products
Rhythm Disorders
Synchronization