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To make the impossiblehappen:

ELUSTAR

Dr. med. Alexander Ruebben

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COMBINATIONof 

ARTAX (Paclitaxel coatedStent)

+

ELUTAX (Paclitaxel coatedBalloon)

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ELUSTAR

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Minimal Drug Loss after

Expansion

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ARTAX

• Polymer-free coating process has beendeveloped in order to have the best of twoworlds- the benefit of a drug eluting stent

and the benefit of bare metal stents – no adverse effect due to polymer

 – lower rate of late thrombosis

• NEW Paclitaxel binding mechanism:

„sintering technique“

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Sintering Technique

Paclitaxel sintered on the Stent surface!