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Information received on mar 18, 2018: no cross of an elunir stent; physician chose another stent that crossed successfully; patient treated and released; no patient injury.Device is not available.Information received on mar 27, 2018: the product stored properly according to the instructions for use (ifu).There was no damage to the product packing noticed prior to use; there was no difficulty removing the device from the sterile packaging; the product had not been re-sterilized; the product prepared according to the ifu (instructions for use); there were no anomalies noted during or after the device was prepped; the target lesion was the circumflex; the lesion was severely calcified; there were severely tortuosity and moderately angulation.There were adequate continuous flush maintained through all devices; the device removed intact (in one piece) from the patient; vessel was ballooned and stent was attempted to be delivered.The physician attempted multiple times to deliver the stent in the severely calcified artery.Stent was removed and vessel dilated again.At this time the physician noticed the stent had flared out on the delivery catheter and decided to attempt with a fresh elunir.New stent delivered without a problem.Information received on apr 02, 2018: the distal ends of the stent had been flared, uplifted, pulled away from the balloon catheter.After repeated attempts it was no longer uniformly crimped to the balloon catheter.
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