US evaluations of MedTronic's beStent begin:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Clinical evaluation has begun of MedTronic's new coronary stent system, the beStent Rival. One of the 15mm-long devices was implanted in a woman at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. The beStent is an expandable mesh, delivered pre-mounted on a balloon catheter. It is flexible during delivery but does not shorten when expanded, says MedTronic. Pre-mounted and self-mounted versions are already available outside the US (Clinica No 731, p 17).