The complaint device was not returned to biotronik for analysis.The manufacturing history was reviewed to establish whether a deviation from the manufacturing process could be the cause for the reported event.In addition, the provided angiographic material was reviewed.The angiographic material showed the treatment but the complaint event is not visible.It did not reveal any further conclusion on the root cause of the reported event.Review of the manufacturing history of the product detailed above did not reveal any non-conformity.During final inspection, every stent system undergoes visual inspection to ensure correct stent embedding and homogeneous crimping of the stent.Further, the stent outer diameter is verified to 100 percent and the stent retention force of a defined amount of samples is tested from every lot.The device in question was manufactured according to specifications and successfully passed all inprocess controls as well as the final inspection.Based on the conducted investigations of the device being subject to this complaint, no material or manufacturing related root cause was determined.However, it seems likely that the root cause for the complaint event is related to external factors during the procedure.
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