Surmodics, Inc. announced it has received a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to its premarket approval (PMA) application for the SurVeil™ drug-coated balloon. In the letter, the FDA indicated that the application is not currently approvable, while providing specific guidance as to a path forward. The letter stated that certain information within two general categories—biocompatibility and labeling—must be added by an amendment to the company's PMA application to place it in approvable form.

Although the information identified by the Agency to put the PMA application in approvable form would require additional testing and analysis, the letter did not question the human clinical data submitted nor request any further human clinical data.