(KIPS) (KIPS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Kips Bay Medical, Inc. is a medical device company. The Company is focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing its external saphenous vein support technology, the eSVS Mesh, for use in coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery. Its eSVS Mesh is designed to be fitted like a sleeve on the outside of saphenous vein grafts (SVG or vein graft) to strengthen SVGs used in CABG surgery. The eSVS Mesh provides vein grafts with physical attributes similar to those of an artery. Its eSVS Mesh is designed for reducing the lumen diameter and improving blood flow characteristics. Its eSVS Mesh technology consists of the eSVS Mesh (25 centimeter length, and either 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5 millimeter in diameter); delivery tube for use in placing its eSVS Mesh on the saphenous vein (color-coded, one for each diameter of its eSVS Mesh); suture snare for use in loading its eSVS Mesh onto the saphenous vein, and sizing tool for use in choosing the correct device size based on saphenous vein diameter.