Israeli Registry Shows Low MACE for Titan Nitride-Coated Stent
1. Morris Mosseri, MD Director of Interventional Cardiology Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center The Israeli Working Group of Interventional Cardiology The Titan Stent in Real Life Results from a Multi-Center Registry
2. Stainless steel and Cobalt-Chromium stents contain considerable amounts of Nickel , Chromium and Molybdenum : Nickel Chromium Molybdenum 316L SS 12-15% 17-19% 2-3% Co-CR Vision 9-11% 19-21% ___ Co-Cr Driver 33-37% 19-21% 9-10% Background
3. Allergy 5-15 % of the population are allergic to Nickel. Nickel allergy Background
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5. The Inflammatory Equilibrium Inflammatory factors Systemic (vulnerable patient) Local (vulnerable plaque) Procedural (trauma) Stent (“foreign” material) Anti-inflammatory therapy DES Systemic therapy
6. TiNOX The Titan stent (Hexacath, France) is a balloon expandable stent made of stainless steel and coated with Titanium-Nitride-Oxide (TiNOX) which completely prevents discharge of nickel, chromium and molybdenum . Background
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8. The Titan Israeli Registry (296 patients) List of centers and investigators: Hadassah - Mosseri M. Ichilov - Miller H. Barzilai - Jefferey J. Hillel-Jaffe - Friemerman A. Naharia - Brizines M, Poriah - Hasin Y. Shiba - Guetta V Wolfson - Tamari I. Ziv - Plich M, ISRAEL