Acandis GmbH is a German, owner-managed medical devices company based in Pforzheim.
We specialise in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for treatment of neurovascular diseases. Our products are used by interventional neuroradiologists for prevention and treatment of stroke.
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APERIO® Hybrid
The term ischaemic stroke is generally used to describe the closure of large cerebral arteries by a blood clot, or ”thrombus”. This kind of vessel occlusion leads to a reduction in the blood flow and thus to an insufficient supply of oxygen to the area of the brain affected. Longer lasting occlusions can cause irreversible damage to the brain cells – a cerebral infarction.
It is thus vital to restore the flow of blood to the affected area of the brain by removing the clot as quickly as possible.
In addition to drug treatment, mechanical thrombectomy has proved a successful form of treatment.
An intracranial stenosis is a narrowing of the arteries supplying blood to the brain, which is generally caused by arteriosclerosis – a systemic disease leading to deposits of blood lipids, clots, connective tissue and lime.
If it is symptomatic and untreated, an intracranial stenosis presents a very high stroke risk and it should therefore be treated as a matter of urgency.
Alongside drug therapy, intracranial stenosis are treated in interventional neuroradiology by minimally invasive vessel expansion using a balloon catheter (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty – PTA). This treatment is supported if necessary by the implantation of a stent.
Highly flexible self-expanding, lasercut nitinol stent with asymmetric cell design
Excellent vessel wall apposition and exceptional conformability
High visibility
Treatment of vessel diameters from 1.5 - 7.0 mm
Up to 5.5 mm stent diameter deliverable through 0.0165” ID microcatheters
Low thrombogenicity*
Resheathability up to 90 % of its length
* results from In-Vitro Tests
Over-the-wire catheter with an inner diameter of 0.0165"
Usable length of 150 cm
Various balloon diameters (1.5 / 2.0 /2.5 / 3.0 / 3.5 / 4.0 mm)
Balloon working length 8 mm
Flexible tip with distal tip X-ray marker ensures atraumatic access to distal stenosis
Slim entrance profile and double hydrophilic coating
Gentle and effective dilation of the stenosis
