InspireMD, Inc. announced results from two important clinical trials. Thirty-day results from the MASTER II trial, which enrolled 310 of a planned 1,114 patients were presented at a major cardiology congress in Israel in December. The trial was suspended in October 2014 as a result of a corporate shift in strategy to a next-generation MGuard drug eluting stent (DES) platform. The company also announced ipsilateral diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) results from the CARENET Trial for the CGuard system which successfully completed enrollment in July.

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Reva Medical initiated patient enrollment with its Fantom bioresorbable drug-eluting scaffold.

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