Custom Made Stents
It’s Interventional, in collaboration with Ella CS, are proud to offer custom made, Nitinol and biodegradable stents for use the GI tract and airways.
Made to measure stents,
prescribed for your patient...
It’s Interventional (formally UK Medical) have been providing this service to UK clinicians since 2008 and have a wealth of experience in making sure the process is both smooth and fast. We will typically have a ‘custom-made’ stent in your hands within four weeks from the initial request from yourselves. Given that these stents are manufactured to your exact requirements, we think this is pretty impressive!
Custom Biliary – Biodegradable Stent
Treatment of benign biliary stenosis can present significant challenges that many clinicians and interventional endoscopists can relate to.
Off-the-shelf solutions often involve compromise, especially when patient-specific anatomy or pathology demands more precision.
Key points:
- Benign biliary stenosis can be difficult to treat effectively with standard stent sizes and designs.
- Clinicians often have to settle for the “closest fit”, which may not always yield optimal results.
- Custom-made biodegradable stents, like those from Ella CS, offer a tailored approach that can better match the anatomy and healing profile of the patient.
- Custom ERCP and CE marked Transhepatic options available.
These biodegradable stents are particularly valuable because they eliminate the need for stent removal, reduce the risk of long-term complications, and support tissue healing over time.
If you would like more information click here.
Note, the Biodegradable Biliary BD Stent THP is now available as a CE marked, stocked device, but if you require a size not currently available or specifically for paediatric use, why not click here for more information.
Custom Tracheal & Bronchial – Biodegradable Stent
Tracheal and Bronchial stenting for complex benign disease can be difficult to navigate, add to that the challenges managing post-natal complications, such as malformed trachea in newborn babies and the management options become even harder to navigate.
Did you know the first ever tracheal biodegradable (BD) stent in the UK was placed at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and it was used as part of an innovative approach to support a stem cell-grown trachea. This was a landmark procedure in paediatric airway surgery and regenerative medicine.
Key points:
- Tracheal and bronchial stenting for complex benign airway disease can be extremely challenging, especially in newborns with congenital tracheal anomalies.
- Postnatal complications, such as malformed or underdeveloped airways, often require creative and cutting-edge solutions.
- Using a biodegradable stent avoids some of the long-term risks associated with traditional metallic or silicone stents.
- The case at GOSH involved a scaffold-based approach, where the BD stent helped maintain airway structure while the stem-cell tissue matured and integrated.
Please contact us for more information.
Paediatric Nitinol Stents
Over the years we have provided a number of nitinol stents for use in the oesophagus specifically for paediatric use. The current options are limited, so having this as an available service provides an essential component for paediatric clinicians.
Do you have a requirement for a stent that does not exist currently?
Ella CS stents are handmade devices, meaning they can manufacture any GI or airway stent for any purpose. If you have a challenging case and the right stent simply doesn’t exist, please get in touch, we can have blanket UKRP and MHRA approval to supply prescribed devices.
In short, the right stent DOES exist, you just have to ask, and we will do the rest!
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If you would like further assistance with custom made stents, or need advice on how to order, please call us on: 0114 268 8880
