Silmet SM

Specific indications may require custom made stents. Tracheobronxane® Silmet® SM can be customised in various manners: Size, Cover and Mesh may be adapted. This can be an advantage in cases when previously two different stents (one covered, one uncovered) where necessary. Now, one single Silmet® SM can be placed, which could have one or several covers according to physicians specifications.

All customised Silmet® stents may be uncovered, or have one or more covers or may even be covered completely (illustration 1 and 2). A complete cover minimises as much as possible the risk of tumor in growth.

Silmet® SM may also come with several different diameters in order to give the stent a tapered (illustration 3) or hourglass shape. Seeking the best possible collateral ventilation, Silmet SM can come with a mesh size of 5mm (standard) or 10mm for increased ventilation and a reduced risk of mucous accumulation.

Size:

• individual stent length
• tapered and hourglass shape stents available

Cover

• individual length and place of cover (asymmetric cover available)
• stents with two different covers
• fully covered stents

Mesh

• mesh length extendable (normal length = 5mm, extendable up to 10mm), for example for
• improved collateral ventilation