About Walden Medical
We Empower physicians to bring Custom medical devices to market.
Walden Medical is a medical device incubator model, offering physicians and inventors a better experience and a more rewarding economic stake than typical venture capital or private equity financings.
The Walden team works closely with physicians to get their inventions to market more quickly and in a capital efficient manner that provides a better experience that standard incubator models. Our goals are aligned with you.
Introducing the RELIEF Stent
Designed by Dr. Lee Ponsky, Chair of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center’s Urology Department to alleviate the most common issues associated with ureteral stent pain, urine refluxand bladder spasms, which together have shown to impact up to 80% of stent patients.
Similar to all ureteral stents, the RELIEF™ Stent provides for the passage of urine from the kidney to the bladder. Yet its unique suture design of the distal stent portion allows the ureteral orifice (UO) to close naturally and reduce urine refluxing up the ureter as is often seen with standard stents, which hold the UO open due to tubular stent body design.
In addition, RELIEF’s distal coil floats in the bladder, which restricts the bladder coil from touching the trigone area of the bladder. Bladder spasms are often caused by the distal coil of standard stents touching the trigone region in the bladder, causing patient discomfort and pain.
The RELIEF stent is an important improvement in ureteral stents and reduces complications from the two primary causes of stent discomfort.
A product of the Ureteral Stent Company
