MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Manny Villafaña, Chairman and CEO of Kips Bay Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:KIPS) announced that on August 31, 2012, the first patient was enrolled in the Kips Bay Medical eMESH I clinical feasibility trial at the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland, by Lars Englberger, MD, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon who stated, “The patient had a smooth and uneventful implant of an eSVS® Mesh graft and is doing very well after quadruple bypass surgery. I am looking forward to the results of this well-designed, randomized, multicenter study of the eSVS Mesh.” Dr. Englberger further commented, “I think that the eSVS Mesh® will be a very valuable tool to increase mid- and long-term patency of saphenous vein grafts, further improving clinical outcomes of patients undergoing CABG surgery by lowering the need for coronary re-interventions.”
