STENTYS highlighted as a solution to minimize stent malapposition in clinical practice

PRINCETON, N.J. and PARIS — STENTYS, a medical technology company commercializing the world’s first and only Self-Apposing® Stent for treating acute myocardial infarction (AMI), today announced that the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) published a “State-of-the-Art Paper” entitled “Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Aspects of Incomplete Stent Apposition,” which highlights STENTYS’ Self-Apposing Stent among novel devices to minimize stent malapposition, also known as incomplete stent apposition (ISA), in clinical practice.

According to the authors: “Some particular clinical scenarios such as acute coronary syndromes, bifurcations, tapered vessels, overlapping stents, and chronic total occlusions might predispose to ISA. Interventional cardiologists should be committed to optimal stent choices and techniques of implantation and use intravascular imaging guidance when appropriate to aim at minimizing acute ISA.”

The authors advise that novel devices, such as STENTYS’ Self-Apposing stent, which already demonstrated an early reduction of ISA compared with balloon-expandable stents during primary PCI, can reduce malapposition and the potentially harmful consequences with which it is associated.

Gonzague Issenmann, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of STENTYS said: “Malapposition continues to be a challenge for cardiologists, particularly when vessel diameter is ambiguous or fluctuating, as in the post-infarction phase. We are pleased that JACC and the authors provided such a detailed discussion of this issue and its dreadful consequences for patients, and that our Self-Apposing Stent technology was highlighted as a solution to malapposition.”

Source: STENTYS

References: Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Aspects of Incomplete Stent Apposition. Attizzani, et al. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2014; 63(14):1355-1367. Article published in the April 15, 2014 issue.