Tag: stent
Ceroflo raises €6.4 million to aid progress of novel ICAD stroke...
Irish medical device firm Ceroflo announced today that it has raised €6.4 million in investment-round funding, which will be used to advance development of...
Imperative announces FIH study of device enabling single antiplatelet therapy after...
Imperative Care has announced the initiation of a first-in-human (FIH) clinical study for its novel stent system designed to only require single antiplatelet therapy...
Technological advances could render 3D printing a “major manufacturing tool” for...
The utilisation of 3D printing to make drug-eluting stents may currently be in its infancy, but the advantages it carries—such as the ability to...
Wallaby/phenox officially announces global launch of Pegasus HPC stent system
Wallaby/phenox has officially announced the successful global launch of its novel Pegasus hydrophilic polymer coating (HPC) stent, having first unveiled the device at the 2022...
Fluid Biotech raises US$4.7 million in oversubscribed seed funding round
Fluid Biotech, a medical device start-up company based in Calgary, Canada, has announced the completion of an oversubscribed seed fundraising round totalling US$4.7 million—and...
FRED flow diverter safe and effective in treatment of “appropriately selected”...
The Flow Redirection Endoluminal Device stent system (FRED; MicroVention)—a flow diverter used to treat intracranial aneurysms—has been deemed safe and effective for this indication,...
Research shows new surgical technology may help reduce brain aneurysm regrowth
A new tool for treating brain aneurysms may protect artery blood flow during surgery and reduce the risk of aneurysm regrowth, according to a...
CX 2021: Stenting should be reserved for the extracranial vertebral arteries...
Stenting is something that, for now at least, should be considered in the extracranial vertebral arteries only—and not the intracranial arteries—for symptomatic atherosclerotic stenosis,...
Use of optical coherence tomography deemed feasible after first-in-human analysis
Results of the first-in-human analysis of acute interactions and healing process after flow diverter implantation using optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging was presented by...
Self-expanding bioabsorbable flow-diverting stent shows a favourable safety profile
The preliminary safety data of a “self-expanding primarily bioabsorbable flow-diverting” stent has shown to be consistent with a favourable profile in terms of mechanical...
Surface modification: From bench to clinical practice
Demetrius Lopes has been working on the surface modification of stents and flow diverters, given that thromboembolic and antiplatelet-related complications represent the majority of...
Stryker gains US FDA premarket approval for Neuroform Atlas stent system
Stryker has announced the premarket approval (PMA) of the Neuroform Atlas stent system by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Neuroform Atlas—according to the...
InspireMD report “superior clinical outcomes” for next-generation mesh-covered stents
InspireMD has released the results of a meta-analysis of four clinical studies involving dual-layered and mesh-covered stents, including the company’s MicroNet-covered stent, the CGuard...
WEAVE trial shows positive results using Wingspan stent system
The final results showed that following on-label indications resulted in extremely low periprocedural stroke and death rate (2.6%) with Wingspan for FDA approved indication....
