Start-Up Spotlight: Efemoral Begins Trial Of Peripheral Stent With Inter-Scaffold Gaps
Executive Summary
The EFEMORAL I trial is the first-in-human study of the start-up company’s FlexStep technology in patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal artery disease.
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