Stentys' drug-eluting self-expanding stent : CE Marking

PRINCETON, N.J., and PARIS, May 24, 2010 — Stentys announced that it has received CE Marking for its drug-eluting self-expanding stent.
The unique self-expanding Stentys stent is designed to ensure optimal apposition of a stent in the critical initial hours and days after an AMI (acute myocardial infarction) procedure, by being continuously applied to the vessel‟s internal wall even during thrombus resolution and vessel spasm relief—thereby avoiding malapposition, a major predictor of stent thrombosis...

...About Stentys
Based in Princeton, N.J., and Paris, Stentys intends to make treatment of complex blocked coronary arteries as simple and effective as a conventional stenting procedure. The Company announced in December 2009 that it has started enrolling patients in the randomized APPOSITION II clinical trial to compare the Stentys self expanding stent against conventional stents in treating AMI patients, looking specifically at stent apposition and adaptation to vessel growth... [PDF] Stentys' Press Release -

Stentys : Interim clinical results from "OPEN I" study of its bifurcated stent reported at EuroPCR 2008 international cardiovascular meeting

PARIS, May 19, 2008——Medical device pioneer Stentys announced that clinical results from the ‘OPEN I’ clinical study using its bifurcated stent were presented at last week’s ‘EuroPCR 2008’ international medical meeting on cardiovascular intervention.
The data, presented by Eberhard Grube, M.D., Chief of Cardiology and Angiology at HELIOS Heart Center (Germany) and Principal Investigator of the OPEN I study, included safety results after 30 days post-implantation of the Stentys bifurcated stent in the first 13 patients.
“We were very pleased to report that there were no device-related events at 30 days follow-up of the first 13 patients in our study,” said Dr. Grube. “The Stentys bifurcation stent seems safe and represents a promising technique for optimal treatment of bifurcated lesions. The procedure is identical to known techniques and makes possible excellent reconstruction of the bifurcation.”... [PDF] Stentys' Press Release -

Stentys, Stentys Bifurcated Drug-Eluting Stent

PARIS-Sept. 24, 2007--Stentys announced today that its bifurcated stent was successfully implanted yesterday into a 56-year-old male patient at the HELIOS Klinikum Siegburg in Siegburg, Germany.Stentys has developed the world's first next-generation dedicated drug-eluting stent for treatment of blocked coronary artery bifurcations so that hundreds of thousands of patients might avoid open-chest surgery.... Stentys' Press Release [PDF] -