Background

Coronary artery disease is caused by fatty lesions that narrow the coronary artery’s inside diameter (stenosis), consequently reducing the blood flow and depriving the heart muscle of oxygen. The dramatic consequence of this blockage is an often-lethal myocardial infarction; cardio-vascular disease is the number one cause of mortality in developed countries.
A coronary stenosis can be treated fairly efficaciously with a stent, a small metal spring-like tube that opens up the artery.

However treatment of artery bifurcations, which represent one coronary intervention in five, is ineffective : one patient in four suffers from restenosis (recurrence of the narrowing) and must undergo a second intervention, too often a by-pass surgery.

The Stentys stent is as simple to use as a conventional stent and is designed to offer superior clinical results thanks to a full opening and excellent scaffolding of the side branch.