Dramatically improved visualization

Interventional vascular procedures call for the utmost precision. Accurate device placement is critical and specialists often rely on radiopaque markers to guide them during their delicate work.

But because markers don’t afford complete visibility, device orientation can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to determine. And that can add time and make some already challenging procedures even harder.

VisTa clear: a new way of seeing

Devices coated with Isoflux Biomed’s VisTa are completely radiopaque, providing doctors with the ability to easily visualize both proper position and orientation.

As procedures become more complex, like those involving branched and fenestrated stent-grafts, that ability is even more critical. VisTa improves visualization so dramatically that no other markers are required.

Enhanced visualization delivers greater accuracy and ultimately faster, easier procedures. And faster, easier procedures clearly benefit physicians and patients alike.

A powerful competitive advantage

Given VisTa’s compelling benefits, designers and manufacturers who incorporate it in their products will realize a distinct and powerful advantage in today’s competitive medical device marketplace.

VisTa coatings are comparable in cost to markers and rivets. When the enhanced marketability of your device is factored in, VisTa is clearly worth exploring.

The right material + the right technology = a breakthrough product

Self-expanding devices present a particularly complex coating challenge, one that VisTa was specifically developed to meet. The sophisticated, patent-pending VisTa coating process, optimized for Nitinol, utilizes tantalum because it’s one of the most biocompatible elements known, with characteristics that render it ideal for implanted medical devices.

The tantalum coating is applied with technology that Isoflux has pioneered to efficiently create highly uniform coatings and surfaces. Studies have shown that the inherent properties of Nitinol devices are not compromised. There are no significant changes in the chronic outward force, the radial resistive force, or A_f as a result of the coating.

Isoflux Biomed’s innovative coatings are designed to address the challenges and opportunities faced by medical device manufacturers as they seek to bring new and improved products to market. And we’ve achieved a significant breakthrough with VisTa.

Biocompatibility Assured

Nitinol stents coated with VisTa are highly biocompatible. Thirty-day and six-month porcine studies showed no statistical difference in stenosis, intimal thickness, injury score, or inflammation score between VisTa coated stents and bare Nitinol control stents.

Because the tantalum coating is non-ferromagnetic, MRI compatibility is similar to bare Nitinol devices.