STENTYS: First Intervention with the Self-Apposing Drug-Eluting Stent for Lower Limbs Broadcasted Live at LINC International Congress

Regulatory News:

STENTYS (FR0010949404 — STNT), a medical technology company commercializing the world's first and only Self-Apposing^® coronary stent, today announces that the first interventions using its self-expanding drug-eluting stent to treat BTK (below-the-knee) arterial disease have been performed during two live-case sessions broadcasted during LINC, the Leipzig Interventional Course, the largest congress on peripheral pathologies.

The two procedures on patients suffering from critical lower-limb ischemia (CLI) were performed by the Leipzig University Hospital angiology team (Dr. Andrej Schmidt, Dr. Sven Bräunlich, Dr. Matthias Ulrich). Several overlapping STENTYS stents were successfully implanted to treat the long lesions of the leg arteries.

Gonzague Issenmann, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of STENTYS, comments: "These first two procedures outside of a clinical trial went perfectly well, and the final results were unanimously acclaimed by the members of the panel of experts who moderated the cases. The physicians were delighted to learn that they can now treat their patients with a drug-eluting and self-expanding stent, the first available for this indication in Europe.”

About STENTYS

STENTYS is developing and commercializing innovative solutions for the treatment of patients with complex coronary artery disease. STENTYS’ Self-Apposing^® Stents are designed to adapt to vessels with ambiguous or fluctuating diameters in order to prevent the malapposition problems associated with conventional stents. The APPOSITION clinical trials in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction showed a very low one year mortality rate and a faster arterial healing compared to conventional stents. The company’s product portfolio also includes MiStent SES^®, a coronary DES whose new drug delivery mechanism is designed to match vessel response, and is marketed through STENTYS’ commercial network in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. More information is available at www.stentys.com.

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STENTYS is listed on Comp. C of the Euronext Paris market

ISIN: FR0010949404 – Ticker: STNT

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