Gastroenterology, Urology— FDA advisory panel GU

A two-specialty panel joined by shared tooling: flexible and rigid endoscopes and their accessories, urological catheters, ureteral stents, lithotripsy systems, hemodialysis machines and dialyzers, bowel-management devices, and endoscopic therapeutic instruments (snares, clips, dilation balloons). Its high product-code count comes from the accessory ecosystems — every scope family drags a constellation of cleared accessories behind it.

Hemodialysis is the quiet heavyweight here: dialyzers, dialysate concentrates, and delivery systems all clear through this panel, and that equipment sits under sustained regulatory attention because of its direct-life-support role. On the GI side, watch the endoscopy accessory codes for the single-use trend — reusable-scope infection concerns have pushed a visible wave of disposable-instrument clearances in recent years.