biostudies-literatureUnknown32(5)Holden AShape Memory Medical<h4>Objectives</h4>Porous, radiolucent, shape memory polymer is a new technology available in discrete peripheral vascular embolization devices. Shape memory polymers can exist in two stable shapes; crimped for catheter delivery and expanded for vessel embolization. The expanded shape memory polymer in these new devices is hemostatic, and the porous polymeric scaffold has been shown to support tissue ingrowth and eventually bioabsorbs in preclinical animal studies. This report describes clinical experience with this novel material in vascular plug devices.<h4>Methods</h4>a prospective, single-arm, safety study at a single center in New Zealand with longer term follow-up via retrospective imaging review. The study device was a pushable shape memory polymer vascular plug with a distal nitinoVascular1137-1142https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11488294biostudies-literatureShape memory polymer technology in peripheral vascular embolization.PMC11488294Buckley BTHolden AHill AAfalseShape memory polymer technology in peripheral vascular embolization.<h4>Objectives</h4>Porous, radiolucent, shape memory polymer is a new technology available in discrete peripheral vascular embolization devices. Shape memory polymers can exist in two stable shapes; crimped for catheter delivery and expanded for vessel embolization. The expanded shape memory polymer in these new devices is hemostatic, and the porous polymeric scaffold has been shown to support tissue ingrowth and eventually bioabsorbs in preclinical animal studies. This report describes clinical experience with this novel material in vascular plug devices.<h4>Methods</h4>a prospective, single-arm, safety study at a single center in New Zealand with longer term follow-up via retrospective imaging review. The study device was a pushable shape memory polymer vascular plug with a distal nitino2024-01-01T00:00:00Z2024 Oct2025-04-04T01:11:22.548Z2025-04-04T01:11:22.548ZS-EPMC114882943721828310.1177/17085381231177851