The contact at the hospital reported that during treatment of an unruptured middle cerebral artery (mca) aneurysm and normal vessel the enterprise stent (enc452200/lot # unknown) could not be placed accurately during deployment.The stent was not implanted at an acute angle, and upon deployment, the stent ¿jumped back¿ 10mm beyond its intended site.To place the stent, the microcatheter was placed distal to the target site, then withdrawn to deploy the device.The device could not be recaptured, removed, or relocated.The stent was implanted in the mca ¿ internal carotid artery (ica) junction with good wall apposition.There was no vessel stenosis.A prowler select plus (details unknown) microcatheter was used in the procedure.The procedure was completed with embolic coils (details unknown) and there was no issue passing other devices through the same microcatheter.An adequate continuous flush was maintained through the catheter.The microcatheter was not reshaped.There was no difficulty during introduction of the microcatheter over the guidewire prior to attempted use of the stent.There was no patient injury or significant clinical delay in the procedure due to the issue.At initial contact the product was not available for return.
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No sterile lot number was reported thus no dhr could be conducted.Stent migration is a known potential adverse event associated with intravascular stent implantation and is listed in the enterprise ifu as such.All products are 100% inspected prior to leaving the manufacturing facility and there is no evidence of a manufacturing related issue.No corrective action is required at this time.Review of the limited information suggests that vessel, target site and procedural issues may have contributed to the reported event.Udi: unknown part number, all 3 attempts to obtain product were unsuccessful, udi unavailable.
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