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Boston Scientific announced the completion of patient enrollment in the small vessel and long lesion trials of its PLATINUM clinical program during the American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference in Atlanta this week. The trials are designed to compare the platinum chromium Promus Element everolimus-eluting stent to matched historical control groups of patients treated with the Taxus Express paclitaxel-eluting stent.
HORIZONS AMI, which studied 3,602 STEMI patients who underwent primary PCI after two years, continued to find a statistically significant superiority for initial treatment with bivalirudin alone compared with heparin plus GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors, and for drug-eluting stents over bare-metal stents. The study was presented during the late-breaking clinical trials at the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in San Francisco on Sept. 25.
SAN FRANCISCO—Abbott’s Xience V stent demonstrates enhanced safety and efficacy compared with Boston Scientific’s Taxus Express without routine angiographic follow-up, according to the one-year clinical data of SPIRIT IV presented at the late-breaking clinical trials session on Wednesday at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference. However, both stents produced positive clinical outcomes.
Boston Scientific has received FDA approval to market its Taxus Liberte Long paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system, a drug-eluting stent (DES) designed for long lesions.
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Boston Scientific has settled three patent disputes with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for $1.73 billion.
The long-awaited SPRIT IV one-year results, presented at the recent Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in San Francicso, for Abbott’s Xience V drug-eluting stent (DES) over Boston Scientific’s Taxus DES found a stent thrombosis rate of 0.29 percent, which surprised even Chuck Simonton, Abbott’s chief medical officer.
New Jersey radiologist Bruce N. Saffran, MD, who was awarded about $500 million in a 2008 patent infringement case against Boston Scientific, filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over Abbott's Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent.
Boston Scientific has received approval from the FDA to market its Taxus Liberte Atom paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system, a drug-eluting stent (DES) designed for treating small coronary vessels, as small as 2.25 mm in diameter.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).