Biosense Webster gains right to distribute Siemens' ultrasound cardiac catheters

By Angela McDaniels

Seattle, March 16 - Biosense Webster Inc. and Siemens Medical Solutions said they have formed a strategic alliance that gives Biosense Webster exclusive worldwide rights to distribute Siemens' Acuson AcuNav ultrasound cardiac catheters to electrophysiologists.

Siemens will continue to distribute the catheters to interventional cardiologists through its own sales force, according to a company news release.

Siemens' AcuNav catheters provide real-time ultrasound imaging of blood flow and other catheters inside the heart to aid in diagnosis and cardiac catheterization procedures.

"This agreement provides potential opportunities to assess how AcuNav can be combined with our unique cardiac mapping and navigation systems," Biosense Webster president Roy Tanaka said in the release.

The two companies agreed to co-develop future products.

"Biosense Webster's expertise in the field of electrophysiology and Siemens' leadership in ultrasound is an ideal combination to help develop future technologies," Vivek Y. Reddy of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said in the release.

Biosense Webster is a Johnson & Johnson company based in Diamond Bar, Calif., that makes diagnostic, therapeutic and mapping tools.

Siemens Medical Solutions, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, is based in Malvern, Pa., and supplies medical technologies, information systems, management consulting and support services to the health-care industry.

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