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cover of Engineering and urology society 38th annual meeting program
abstract of proluma catheter presentation at the engineering and urologist 38th annual meeting

Complete program and abstracts 

Proluma Foley Catheter abstract presented
at the 38th Annual Meeting

Peer Reviewed and Published Results

Results from live animal preclinical testing that compared our toroidal balloon catheter with a commercially available catheter were peer reviewed and published.*

two images of the skenes gland located in the urethra showing the difference in skin irritation between conventional foley catheter and the proluma catheter

* Steele G, Massicotte M, Ziegler T.  “Novel Foley Catheter with Toroidal Balloon Sheath Reduces Urethral Trauma”, Proceedings of the Engineering & Urology Society 38th Annual Meeting April 28th, 2025 Las Vegas, Nevada.
** Control Case and Test Case: catheter shaft oscillation of 1 cm, once per second.  Total time 2:09 hours (appx. 7,700 cycles)