Headline News:
November 20th, 2008
Until now, all stent designs have been forced to trade off between offering high radial strength (laser cut tubular stents) or high flexibility and comfomability (coil and segmented modular stents). The elusive, ideal stent would be the best of both worlds.
Why you might ask? Think of the elegant, spiraling dual helix design of a DNA molecule. This is the basis for the R stent's remarkable performance.
This makes the R stent ideal for multiple lesion subsets.
As if that were not enough, perhaps the R stent's most impressive feature is its remarkable ability to conform to the natural curvature of a vessel. Natural confomability minimizes trauma to a vessel; trauma is a proven predictor of restenosis.
| Unprotected Left Main | Post R stent Placement |
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| Unparalleled side branch access even for acute take-offs (up to 4.5 mm diameter) | |
| RCA with tortuous stenosis | Post R stent Placement |
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| Low profile and enhanced pushability for tight lesions and tortuous anatomy | |
| LCX bifurcation lesion | Post R stent placement |
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| Maximum flexibility and high radial strength for bifurcated and ostial lesions | |
| RCA with extreme diffuse sclerosis | Post R stent placement |
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| Natural conformability to arterial anatomy for extreme diffuse sclerosis | |