This device is not cleared by the FDA for use in that vascular system. It is designed to prop open the bile duct, yet doctors are using it to open the artery leading to the kidney which is being show to cause coma, siezure and stroke due to an air embolism to the brain. Cordis Corporation has already recalled (Class I Recall) their Precise RX stent in March of 2004.

On 52907 my mother was implanted with a Cook Formula 418billary stent in her kidney which cased a severe stroke leaving half of her body paralized.

See www.cookmedical.com