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Indigenous device for correcting ballooning of brain arteries developed

New Delhi, Jan17 (UNI) Indians will soon have access to the country’s first indigenous flow diverter stent for diverting blood flow away from localized ballooning of arteries in the brain and a device that promotes better healing of the hole in the heart, the Department Science and Technology Ministry said.
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) of DST, under the Technical Research Centre (TRC), has entered into Technology Transfer Agreements with Pune based Biorad Medisys for two biomedical implant devices--- an Atrial Septal Defect Occluder and an Intracranial Flow Diverter Stents developed by the institute in collaboration with National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore (CSIR-NAL) using super elastic NiTiNOL alloys.
The novel ASD occlude developed by SCTIMST promotes better healing of the hole in the heart and also has softer edge for minimizing the damage to adjacent tissue.
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