Concentric Medical
Concentric Medical Enrolls First Five Patients in Landmark Ischemic Stroke Registry
Published in Law and Health Weekly, August 4th, 2007
Concentric Medical announces the enrollment of the first five patients in the Merci Registry. The Merci registry is a broad-based prospective study of the use of Concentric Medical's family of Merci Retrievers to restore blood flow in patients who have suffered an ischemic stroke by removing blood clots. Concentric Medical plans to seek enrollment of at least 1,000 patients at up to fifty centers world-wide in this registry of stroke intervention cases.
The first patients were enrolled and treated at the Saint Luke's Brain and Stroke Institute at St. Luke's Medical Center in Kansas City, MO. Marilyn Rymer, MD, neurologist and head of the Brain and Stroke Institute, is a...
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