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• Medtronic Pipeline Recall Issued After Embolization Device Linked to Injuries, Deaths

  March 19, 2025

  Darian Hauf

  Medtronic Neurovascular has issued a recall and updated instructions for two separate models of the company’s Pipeline Vantage brain aneurysm stents.

• Medtronic Pipeline Flex Embolization Recall Follows Reports of Serious Injuries, Deaths

  September 21, 2021

  Martha Garcia

  Medtronic is recalling about 9,000 devices used to treat brain aneurysms following reports of serious injuries and deaths due to the delivery system fracturing and leaving sharp debris in patients' brains and blood vessels.

• Misuse Of Neurovascular Stents May Have Led To Patient Injuries And Deaths, FDA Warns

  May 9, 2018

  Irvin Jackson

  The FDA warns that some neurovascular stent procedures may have caused strokes and deaths.

• Neurovascular Embolization Coils May Cause Magnetic Imaging Problems: FDA Warns

  March 14, 2018

  Martha Garcia

  Metal coils used to treat brain aneurysms may result in image artifacts during MRA scans that could cause a medical misdiagnosis, the FDA warns.