Vascular diseases are leading causes of ischemic heart disease and stroke and lead to significant global mortality. Endovascular interventions, such as neuroendovascular and cardiovascular interventions are a minimally invasive approach that provides the benefit of faster recovery, less general anesthesia, reduced blood loss, and lower mortality compared to open surgery. This approach now includes advanced procedures like complex aneurysm repair, stent placement for peripheral artery disease, valve replacement, and novel therapy delivery beyond traditional cardiac ablation, angioplasty, and stenting.
Despite its advantages, endovascular intervention face limitations such as excessive radiation exposure, lack of 3D mapping and haptic feedback. Robotically steerable catheter and guidewire technologies have emerged as a promising solution, enhancing precision, stability, reducing radiation doses, and improving access to complex anatomies.
The workshop aims to explore clinical opportunities, technical requirements, and regulatory challenges for robot-assisted endovascular interventions. It seeks to unite researchers, engineers, and clinicians from academia and industry to discuss and identify new applications and barriers in this field. The workshop’s goal is to foster collaboration between academia and industry to address and overcome the technical, clinical, regulatory, and translational challenges for practical clinical implementation of robotic endovascular interventions.
