EBC - ON DEMAND
The Cappella Sideguard Ostium Protection Device
European Bifurcation Club 2006 – EBC 2006 – Rome, Italy
New Dedicated side branch system
The Cappella Sideguard Ostium Protection Device
Author: Michael Jonas, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Cambridge, USA
CONCLUSION
- A new dedicated, self expanding, side-branch ostial protection device.
- Designed to solve the tradeoff between continuous drug delivery & flow disturbance.
- Provides EXCELLENT deliverability & EASE of use.
- Any conventional main vessel stent can be placed.
- IVUS, Radiography & Histology show PERFECT expansion in both vessels, FULL luminal patency & Wall COMPLETE apposition through the ostial transition segment.
- With (& perhaps without) drug elution, likely to provide superior clinical outcome in combination with DE main vessel stent.