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PROCEPT BioRobotics Announces Milestones in Europe: First Commercial Aquablation Cases Completed in Germany and Initiation of FRANCAIS WATER Clinical TrialPROCEPT BioRobotics, a Silicon Valley surgical robotics company developing novel and disruptive technologies to treat prostate disease, announced that the first commercial Aquablation® procedures have been completed in Germany. Additionally, the company has initiated the FRANCAIS WATER clinical trial, a necessary first step in gaining reimbursement for the company's AquaBeam® System in France.
First Aquablation Cases in Germany "Aquablation therapy is an innovative procedure that allows the surgeon to map the exact treatment contour on ultrasound, and then the robot autonomously resects the prostate tissue according to the surgeon's plan, enabling it to be precise. With this device, our resection time is significantly reduced to less than five minutes, and patients will experience fewer sexual side effects than with traditional treatments," Professor Bach said. "We believe Aquablation has the potential to positively change the way we treat BPH."
FRANCAIS WATER Clinical Trial "We successfully completed our first cases in September and are very encouraged by the procedural outcomes," said Principal Investigator Aurélien Descazeaud, MD, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Limoges. "Aquablation is an exciting development for the treatment of BPH - an inconvenient, painful and often debilitating condition." The trial is being conducted at three internationally recognized sites throughout France and is enrolling a similar patient population to the global, double-blind, randomized phase III WATER (Waterjet Ablation Therapy for Endoscopic Resection of prostate tissue) study. Data from the WATER study demonstrated very strong efficacy outcomes with a superior safety profile for Aquablation therapy compared to the surgical gold standard transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), including a near four-fold (10 percent vs. 36 percent) reduction in sexual side effects at three months. "Before Aquablation therapy, men had to choose between symptom relief and the high risk of sexual side effects. That is no longer the case," said PROCEPT BioRobotics President, Chief Executive Officer and principal architect of the AquaBeam System Nikolai Aljuri, Ph.D. "It is our hope that this advanced treatment option will become more widely available throughout Europe, allowing men with BPH to experience the same benefits of surgical procedures like TURP, with less risk of side effects that impact their quality of life."
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