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Empress Medical is developing fibroid treatment solutions.
The company is focused on changing the standard of care for women worldwide and reducing the number of hysterectomies by introducing an easy-to-use laparoscopic technology designed for gynecologists operating in average settings, making it accessible to more underserved women, delivering on the promise to offer a broader base of women a safe, uterus-preserving fibroid treatment option, and preserving fertility.
The Empress system is intended to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids in a laparoscopic procedure by inducing fibroid tissue ischemia. Sutures wrapped around the fibroid increase the intra-tumoral pressure, which leads to fibroid ischemia — blockage of intra- and peri-fibroid blood flow — and, eventually, necrosis of the fibroid tissue.