This is the shortest duration of DAPT for any major drug eluting stent (DES) in Europe.
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These drug-eluting stents yield a marked reduction in early reblockage compared with bare metal stents.
However, after one year, drug-eluting stints may have a slightly higher risk of occlusion compared with bare metal stints.
Today, a stent is left behind in perhaps 75 percent of all angioplasties done in the U.S. Most are drug-eluting stents.
That was certainly the case when drug-eluting stents were first introduced.
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Also late yesterday, Boston Scientific (BSX) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its latest drug-eluting stent, the Promus Element Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System.
In the vascular business, the company is developing a next-generation Drug Eluting Stent, XIENCE Xpedition, which is expected to launch in Europe this year and in the U.S. in 2013.
The latest iterations, "drug-eluting" stents, release a chemotherapy-type drug.
The new Abbott also sells medical devices such as artery-clearing drug-eluting Xience stent or its absorbable stent known as Absorb and diagnostic tests used in laboratories and hospitals such as its Architect platform.
Moderate growth is expected from vascular and diagnostics division (excluding to certain royalty and supply arrangement revenues and currency impact), after the company launched various products including its next-generation Drug Eluting Stent XIENCE Xpedition and XIENCE PRIME in different parts of the world.
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