ABSTRACT
Description • Balloon expandable tubular stent • Multicellular – modular ring design • Alternating connections with multiple links • Sheathless and premounted stent system • Available in lengths of 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 mm and
diameters of 2.5-4.0 mm
History • April 1999 – international market release • CE mark approval received • Multi centre registry study finished • October 1999 randomized trial with 250 patients
started • July 1999 hemocompatibility test report finished • October 1999 registry study for Japan started • Multicenter registry study 100 patients, Israel finished,
March 2000 long term Genius stent implantation result, 11% restenosis rate
• Genius complex lesion stenting study, Lesion B2 and C, finished, January 2001 by Reifart et al.
