The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
– New labeling approval for Abbott’s XIENCE™ stent builds on a legacy of safety and allows for one-month (as short as 28 days) dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT) for patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) – The new XIENCE Skypoint™ stent received FDA approval in the U.S. and CE Mark approval in Europe – XIENCE stents […]
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for XIENCE SierraTM, the newest generation of the company’s gold-standard XIENCE everolimus-eluting coronary stent system. XIENCE stents are among the world’s most-used and studied stents and have an exceptional safety record with low rates of […]
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare (MHLW) granted national reimbursement for XIENCE Sierra™, the newest generation of the company’s gold-standard XIENCE everolimus-eluting coronary stent. XIENCE Sierra improves upon previous versions of XIENCE with an enhanced stent design, a new delivery system, and unique sizes to […]
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Micell Technologies, Inc. announced that The Lancet has published data from the DESSOLVE III clinical trial. The study met its primary endpoint, showing non-inferior safety and effectiveness outcomes in a complex patient population for the MiStent® Sirolimus Eluting Absorbable Polymer Coronary Stent System (MiStent) versus the Xience® Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System (Xience). The […]
DENVER, Oct. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that patients who underwent minimally-invasive implantation with a XIENCE coronary stent for left-main coronary artery disease had the same long-lasting health outcomes at three years but felt better more quickly than patients who underwent open-heart surgery. The data were presented during a late-breaking session at the […]
Landmark Data Published by The Lancet Demonstrates Statistically Significant Lower Event Rates with Orsiro BARCELONA, Spain, August 28, 2017 – BIOTRONIK today announced data from the BIOFLOW-V randomized trial comparing Orsiro1 and Xience2 drug-eluting stents (DES) with 12-month target lesion failure (TLF) as the primary endpoint proving non-inferiority. Results presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s ESC […]
PRESS RELEASE ABBOTT PARK, Ill., July 25, 2017 — Abbott today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating the short-term use of common blood thinning medicines, called dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), after receiving a XIENCE everolimus-eluting coronary stent. The study, called XIENCE Short DAPT, will evaluate if three months […]
