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Tryton Medical Announces Completion of Enrollment in the EXTENDED ACCESS Registry for its Tryton Side Branch Stent
[August 03, 2015]

Tryton Medical Announces Completion of Enrollment in the EXTENDED ACCESS Registry for its Tryton Side Branch Stent


Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to treat bifurcation lesions, today announced the completion of enrollment in the Extended Access Registry, a single arm study of its Tryton Side Branch Stent. The Tryton registry is designed to confirm the results from Tryton's Pivotal IDE Trial, and has successfully enrolled 133 patients from Europe and the United States.

"The completion of patient enrollment in the Extended Access Registry is a major milestone for Tryton Medical. We're demonstrating power in numbers, now studying over 1,800 patients at more than 100 clinical sites across 15 countries. We've also generated extensive real world clinical experience with over 11,000 patients treated with Tryton Side Branch Stent thus far in countries where it is commercially available," said Shawn P. McCarthy, President and CEO of Tryton Medical. "We are very grateful to our investigators and their research teams for their dedication to this important trial. We will soon be filing our pre-market approval application to FDA, and remain on schedule to be the first and only dedicated bifurcation stent available in the U.S."

The Tryton Extended Access Registry builds on the results of the TRYTON IDE Study, which showed the benefit of treatment with Tryton Side Branch Stent in a post-hoc analysis of patients involving significant bifurcations, representing the intended population. In this intended population, the TRYTON IDE Study showed reductions in target vessel failure and statistical difference of side banch percent diameter stenosis in patients with side branch vessels of 2.25 mm diameter or greater by quantitative coronary angiography. The Tryton Extended Access Registry is designed to further confirm the acceptable safety profile of the Tryton stent as seen in the post hoc analysis. Results from this registry, together with results from the Pivotal IDE Trial, will be submitted in a pre-market approval (PMA) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before the end of 2015.



Coronary artery disease often results in the buildup of plaque at the site of a bifurcation, where one artery branches from another. Current approaches to treating bifurcation lesions can be time consuming and technically difficult. As a result, the side branch is often left unstented, leaving it vulnerable to higher rates of restenosis, the re-narrowing of the stented vessel following implantation. In addition, accumulation of plaque that narrows the base of the coronary tree, also known as left main disease, remains a persistent challenge in interventional cardiology that could benefit from new treatment options. More than 75 percent of left main lesions are bifurcation lesions.

About Tryton Side Branch Stent


Tryton Side Branch Stent System is built using proprietary Tri-ZONE® technology to offer a dedicated strategy for treating bifurcation lesions. Tryton's cobalt chromium stent is deployed in the side branch artery using a standard single wire balloon-expandable stent delivery system. A conventional drug eluting stent is then placed in the main vessel. Tryton Side Branch Stent has now been used to treat more than 11,000 patients worldwide. The Tryton Side Branch Stent is commercially available in multiple countries within Europe, Middle East & Africa, is investigational in the US, and is not available in Japan.

About Tryton Medical, Inc.

Tryton Medical, Inc., located in Durham, N.C., is the leading developer of novel stent systems for the treatment of bifurcation lesions. The company was founded in 2003 by Aaron V. Kaplan, M.D., professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, to develop stents for the definitive treatment of bifurcation lesions. For more information please visit www.trytonmedical.com and follow the company on Twitter (News - Alert) at @TrytonMedical1.


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