Bausch + Lomb Receives Clearance From FDA For Stellaris Elite™ Next-Generation Phacoemulsific

April 06, 2017

New Machine Offers Surgeons Advanced Features and Opportunities for Future Customization. Stellaris Elite will be the first phacoemulsification platform on the market to offer Adaptive Fluidics.

LAVAL, Quebec, April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.'s (NYSE: VRX and TSX: VRX) wholly owned subsidiary, Bausch + Lomb, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Stellaris Elite™ Vision Enhancement System, the company's next generation phacoemulsification cataract platform. The new machine offers many new cutting-edge innovations, as well as the opportunity to add upgrades and enhancements continuously, allowing surgeons to customize their machines and expand their capabilities more rapidly than ever before.

"We are pleased to continue to deliver on our planned 2017 product launches with the approval of the Stellaris Elite platform," said Joseph C. Papa, Chairman and CEO of Valeant. "As part of Valeant's continued investment in innovation, this surgical platform will further expand Bausch + Lomb's comprehensive portfolio of products and directly address the needs of the marketplace. By changing the paradigm of traditional large capital equipment currently offered today, our R&D team developed the Stellaris Elite to provide customers innovative upgrades and enhancements every one to two years, versus the customary decade-long life cycle, to meet the ever-evolving needs of their patients."

Stellaris Elite will be the first phacoemulsification platform on the market to offer Adaptive Fluidics™, which combines precise aspiration control with predictive infusion management to create a highly responsive and controlled surgical environment for efficient cataract lens removal.*

Bausch + Lomb plans to launch retina applications for the Stellaris Elite this summer, which will integrate both retina and cataract capabilities into a single machine. The system will also offer surgeons additional functionality and a broad range of accessories and probes, including the new Vitesse technology, a high-speed vitreous cutter, which is currently under FDA review.

 

Same old system with a few more bells and whistles.

 

Nice try, but in typical B&L fashion, this upgrade comes about 3-4 years too late ... would've been nice to have this when stellaris was still relavent,...leading from behind as always with me-three technology..