June-July 2010

World first at IMM Recherche: Trans-catheter treatment of pulmonic stenosis in a snow leopard.

We are not a veterinary clinic and our primary mission is indeed to validate medical devices and novel therapeutic strategies in clinically relevant preclinical models. However, a small part of our activity is dedicated to treating pets with heart conditions.

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June 2010

Histologic preparation of hard tissue: Medical devices in tissue explants

Histopathology is the final and corner-stone assessment of all the medical devices tested at IMM Recherche. Safety issues have indeed to be addressed at a microscopic level in a standardized and scrupulous manner. But histologic preparation of hard tissue specimens is not as routine as paraffin embedding. Teeth, bone, dental implants, coronary or aortic stents, screws, medical ceramic require that the tissue preparation be respectful of both the implantand the host tissue. The cutting and grinding technique is the gold standard in order to obtain thin sections of large specimens which cannot be processed by conventional techniques.

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