Abbott reports two-year data for Xience V

18 May 2008

US health care major Abbott Laboratories presented positive long-term data for its Xience V everlolimus eluting coronary stent system,a next-generation drug-eluting stent intended for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease,.at this year's EuroPCR conference in Barcelona, Spain.

The two-year results were fore the 1,002 patient, SPIRIT III, prospective, multi-center, randmized, single-blind, controlled, Phase III clinical trial comparing Xience V to fellow US company Boston Scientific's Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent. The results showed that Abbott's device demonstrated a 45% reduction reduction in the risk of adverse cardiac events and a 32% reduction in the risk of target vessel failure.

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