Cypher fares well vs bare metal stents

9 September 2007

The Cypher sirolimus-eluting coronary stent continued to provide clinical benefits compared to a bare metal stent in the E-SIRIUS Trial, which assessed the agent out to five years of follow-up, and showed no differences in safety, according to data presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007, held in Vienna, Austria.

At year five, the patients in the Cypher stent arm of the study continued to be significantly less likely than the those in the bare metal stent group to need another procedure in the same arterial area (target lesion revascularization). In addition, the investigators found similar rates of myocardial infarction and mortality between the two groups, as well as no significant difference between their rates of stent thrombosis, noted Cordis, the makers of the cardiac device, which is a unit of US health care major Johnson & Johnson.

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