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Next Generation Pro-Healing Technology Developments Unveiled
SEOUL, South Korea, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- OrbusNeich's pro-healing stent technology was featured at a symposium during Angioplasty Summit TCT Asia Pacific 2009 at the Convention Center of Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul, South Korea.
Presented by Margo Klomp, MD from the Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, final adjudicated 12 month follow up results from the randomized AMC single center TRIAS High Risk (HR) study showed a slightly higher target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate with the Genous treated patient group compared with patients receiving the Taxus drug eluting stent, but there were no stent thrombosis events at any time period in the 98 patient Genous group with only one month of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). In the 95 patient Taxus cohort, the stent thrombosis rate was 4.2%, including late stent thromboses at 155 and 200 days, even though all patients were on DAPT at the time of stent thrombosis. Furthermore, the composite of death and myocardial infarction for Genous was 4.1% versus 7.3% for Taxus. "Within a month we will complete two year follow up on these patients and we anticipate these results will hold up longer term," said Klomp.
In a separate study involving 446 consecutive patients presented with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated with Genous, Harry Suryapranata, MD, PhD, from Isala Klinieken in Zwolle, The Netherlands, presented 30 day follow up with only one patient (0.2%) having a stent thrombosis. Suryapranata commented, "This rate is impressively low given the highly thrombotic environment associated with AMI patients." Longer term follow up is ongoing.
Juan F Granada, MD, medical director of the Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research at
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