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InspireMD Announces the European Society of Cardiology 2020 “Best Poster Award” for Updated Data from the PARADIGM-EXTEND Study
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InspireMD, Inc. (NYSE American: NSPR), the developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention System (EPS) for
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[{"type":"text","content":"TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InspireMD, Inc. (NYSE American: NSPR), the developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke caused by carotid artery disease (CAD), today announces the award for Best ESC Congress Poster for the presentation of updated data from the large, long-term PARADIGM-EXTEND study of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention System (EPS), as part of the European Society of Cardiology 2020 Carotid Update e-presentation at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2020. PARADIGM/EXTEND is an investigator-driven on-going study performed with CGuard Carotid stent for primary and secondary stroke prevention in a large, consecutive all-comers population, with 5 years (60 months) follow-up.\n PARADIGM-EXTEND current results for 480 patients of the expected total of 550 that completed the 30-day follow-up were presented. There were no peri-procedural major strokes or death. The total death/stroke /myocardial incidence at 30 days was 1.04% (5/480) due to two minor strokes, one myocardial infarction and two stent-unrelated deaths. In the study, 354/480 patients completed the 12-month follow-up with only 1 patient experiencing in-stent restenosis, 0.28% (1/354). At the 12-month follow-up there were no other device-related adverse clinical events. Finally, 46/480 patients completed the 60-month follow-up period with one more case of in-stent restenosis and no additional cases of device-related stroke. The lead investigator of the study and ESC Congress presenter was Prof Piotr Musialek, Jagiellonian University Department of Cardiac & Vascular Diseases John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, Poland. Prof Musialek stated, “In consecutive all-comer patients, CGuard EPS stent nearly abolished, in an unprecedented magnitude, stroke risk in relation to carotid restenosis. Based on the PARADIGM-EXTEND and other accumulated clinical data on CGuard’s safety and efficacy, in our ESC 2020 Carotid Update Lecture we indicated that increasing the use of the MicroNet-covered stent demonstrates a fundamental change in the carotid revascularization paradigm, with significantly larger proportions of patients now able to benefit from this technology and a percutaneous procedure rather than surgery.” “The results from this investigator-driven initiative and resulting recognition of best poste...