Nitinol prices are up due to climbing demand and limited supply, says Confluent Medical Technologies Chief Commercial Officer ...

The plastic stent is now exchanged with a SEMS and deployed. Recently, a non-foreshortening nitinol SEMS with a 6-Fr stent-delivery system has been developed (Cook Medical) allowing simultaneous ...

This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a switching electrical current to it! Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool ...

The Cordis ® Randomized Iliac Stent Project – US (CRISP-US) trial was a prospective randomized trial, including 203 patients with chronic limb ischemia, randomized to either the Cordis nitinol ...

Since each of these stents also features an electrode array ... The used devices were made out of Nitinol, which appears to have good biocompatibility and in-vivo is observed to induce neointimal ...

Endologix AFX Stent Graft. The graft itself is made of an ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) over a Nitinol framework skeleton. It is unique in that it has a unibody-bifurcated design for ...

Nitinol’s unique properties, such as superelasticity and shape memory, make it highly suitable for medical devices like stents, guidewires, and catheters. Its biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, ...

This is called jaundice. Jaundice can make you feel unwell. Your doctor may suggest that you have a small tube called a stent put in your bile duct to keep it open. The stent is made of plastic or ...

Stent thrombosis is a rare but potentially life threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It develops when a blood clot blocks blood flow through your stent. A coronary ...

This industry sponsored registry will determine risks of major adverse events in the treatment of carotid occlusive disease with the Cordis PRECISE® Nitinol Stent System and Cordis ANGIOGUARD™ XP/RX ...

This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent procedure. On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood thinning ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a heart stent specifically made for infants and young children - a device ...