ClearStream Technologies has CE marked its Intrepide drug-eluting stent (DES) for sale in Europe. The Wexford, Ireland-based firm will start selling the product in Europe and other CE-related markets through controlled registries, which will enable both early sales of Intrepide and gathering of post-marketing surveillance data. These are the ongoing ICLARITY ROW in Russia, Georgia and Bangladesh, and ICLARITY Europe, which will be launched in May. An earlier registry (PATIENT APT) found that 75% of patients implanted with Intrepide could discontinue anti-clotting drug therapy after three months, ClearStream says. There was a lower risk of late stent thrombosis with Intrepide than with the first generation DES, the firm added. Intrepide elutes the anti-platelet drug trapidil.
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