09:53 AM EDT, 07/10/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Intuitive Surgical ( ISRG ) said Thursday the US Food and Drug Administration approved its Vessel Sealer Curved, an electrosurgical instrument that is designed to seal, cut, grasp, and dissect tissue, for use with the company's da Vinci systems.

The company said this is its first advanced energy instrument to obtain FDA clearance for the transection of lymphatic vessels.

The regulator approved the instrument for grasping and blunt dissection of tissue, and bipolar coagulation and mechanical transection of blood vessels up to 7mm in diameter, lymphatic vessels, and tissue bundles that fit within the device's jaws, Intuitive said.

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