The STENTYS technology consists of a unique, self-expanding stent platform that has been designed and tested to address the challenges of treating coronary arteries with areas of vessel diameter fluctuations and/or large side branches.  It is built out of Nitinol, a titanium alloy with super-elastic properties. The stent’s short, expandable segments and its self-expansion features allow for excellent vessel conformability as well as continuous apposition along the arterial wall, superior to existing balloon-expandable stents as demonstrated through IVUS and OCT imaging. The gentle expansion forces are well suited for deployment in an artery with a heavy clot burden, like in acute settings.

The STENTYS stent is designed with small distinctive interconnectors that can be used to create an opening through the stent mesh. It allows the clinician to safely navigate and deploy the stent, then disconnect the stent connectors with an angioplasty balloon to provide side branch access independent of branch ostium location : the connectors are placed all along the length and the circumference of the stent.