Therapeutic Endoscopy
Highly trained gastroenterologists and surgical endoscopists increasingly make use of the working channels built into many endoscopes to do everything from collecting a biopsy sample from the bile duct to draining cysts in the pancreas. But limitations of the current image guidance available to endoscopy teams can be a barrier to achieving procedural objectives.
Myka Labs Smart Catheters: A Revolutionary Advance in Therapeutic Endoscopy
Glint™ catheters from Myka Labs are designed to substitute for conventional catheters used in advanced endoscopic procedures, providing the same functionality as the conventional catheters they replace but with a key difference: miniature sensors built into every Glint catheter generate a continuous stream of high-clinical-value real-time data—data that can be leveraged for greater precision, clarity and confidence throughout procedure.
Myka Labs Deep Learning-based Artificial Intelligence Turns Sensor Data into Actionable Guidance
Glint™ tower modules pull in both data feeds from both Glint catheters and conventional intraoperative imaging data. Using these multimodal data feeds, Glint deep learning-based multimodal artificial intelligence models produce real-time analytics and image augmentation. The combination of Glint smart catheters and Glint AI is designed to streamline procedures and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Endoscopically Repairing Esophageal Atresia using Connect-EA: Favorable Outcomes from Early Clinical Experience
Results of the use of Connect-EA, an advanced esophageal magnetic compression anastomosis (EMCA) system developed at UCSF and being brought to market by Myka Labs, have now appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journal articles. Working closely with Dr. Oliver Muensterer of LMU Klinikum, Myka Labs founder and former UCSF pediatric surgeon division chief Dr. Michael Harrison arrived at the design of Connect-EA through exhaustive preclinical studies on the role of compression in minimizing deleterious effects of fibrosis in the post-repair esophagus. Glint AI is a key enabling technology for endoscopic rendezvous procedures like EMCA device placement and retrieval. Esophageal atresia, a congenital malformation where a portion of the esophagus is missing such that food can not pass from the mouth to the stomach, occurs in roughly one in every 2,500-5,000 live births.