April 25, 2014 — Manny Villafana, chairman and CEO of Kips Bay Medical Inc., announced that on Jan. 14, 2014, the first commercial implant of the company's eSVS Mesh in Austria was performed at the Medical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria. This implant was performed under the direction of Dr. Gunther Laufer. The presiding surgeon in the case, Dr. Sigrid Sandner, commented that the eSVS Mesh was easily deployed with no complications.
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