Welcome to COHEREX MEDICAL™

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Coherex Medical was founded with the goal of developing a PFO closure device that is safe, effective, and easy to use. The Company decided that since our product would be used exclusively by interventional cardiologists, the ideal device would be similar in its look and feel to devices commonly used in that specialty. In addition, we believed that the complete system should incorporate redundant closure mechanisms in order to maximize the probability of long term success.

Vascular stents are perhaps the most widely used therapeutic devices in interventional cardiology. Using the familiar delivery system of a self-expanding vascular stent as a model, the engineering team at Coherex developed the PFO Closure System, which redefines the concept of a stent. Instead of using the outward force generated by an expanded stent to open a structure, the Coherex FlatStent™ EF  uses outward force to close a structure.

The implantable device is part of a system that is designed to provide three distinct closure mechanisms: lateral force exerted by the deployed FlatStent to close the tunnel from within, a foreign body response to the implant to stimulate endothelialization, and a polymer substrate to promote cellular integration within the tunnel.

The Coherex FlatStent(TM) PFO Closure System has received CE Marking and a limited OUS pilot launch is underway.

Refine Your Approach.    Treat The Tunnel.

PHYSICIAN TRAINING VERIFICATION

• Coherex is scheduling training sessions for physicians interested in learning the in-tunnel method.  To learn how to use The Coherex FlatStent^TM EF PFO Closure System, please contact Dr. Mark Thomas, Director of Clinical Education, at (801) 433-9900 or (800) 390-9107 or email:  mthomas@coherex.com

RECENT EVENTS

Coherex Medical recently had a very successful Lunch Presentation entitled "In-Tunnel PFO Closure:  Treating the Tunnel Using the Coherex FlatStent (TM) PFO Closure System" at TCT 2009 in San Francisco.     Our presenters were:

Martin Leon, MD -- "In-Tunnel Closure Has Arrived"

Brian Whisenant, MD -- "How the Coherex FlatStent PFO Closure System Works"

Ziyad Hijazi, MD -- "Tunnel Morphology.   It's Important, But Not Why You Think"

Horst Sievert, MD -- "Lessons Learned from the Coherex-EU Trial"

Peter Ruygrok, MD -- "Keys to Success in FlatStent Deployment"

David Muller, MD -- "New Device - Short Learning Curve.  My Experience Learning an In-Tunnel Closure Method"

Mark Reisman, MD -- Moderator