Welcome to COHEREX MEDICAL™

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 their 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, they 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 Coherex FlatStent™ 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 FlatStent 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.

UPCOMING EVENTS

ESC (European Society of Cardiology) – Munich, Germany
August 30-Sept. 3

EHMTI (European Headache and Migraine Trust International) Congress 2008 -- London, UK
September 4-7, 2008

The Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology (GISE) -- Bologna, Italy
September 23-26, 2008

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) -- Washington, D.C.
October 12-17, 2008