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New Analysis of SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III Data Confirms Patients Treated with XIENCE V Are at Lower Risk of Experiencing Death, a Heart Attack or a

Repeat Procedure Compared to TAXUS(R) at Two Years

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Data from an independent meta-analysis of Abbott's SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III randomized clinical trials demonstrated that the XIENCE V(TM) Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System continues to deliver clinically significant benefits for patients compared to the TAXUS(R) paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system out to two years. In this meta-analysis, which included patients from the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, XIENCE V demonstrated clinical superiority to TAXUS in the endpoints of target vessel failure (TVF) and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) at two years. XIENCE V also demonstrated significantly lower clinical events rates than TAXUS in the key efficacy (target lesion revascularization) and safety (cardiac death or heart attack) components of MACE at two years. The results are being presented by Gregg W. Stone, M.D., principal investigator of the SPIRIT III trial, during the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.

"The pooled results from the SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III trials demonstrate that XIENCE V is safer and provides greater efficacy than TAXUS at two years," said Dr. Stone, professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and chairman, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York. "In the meta-analysis at two years, XIENCE V compared to TAXUS demonstrated statistically significant reductions in the combined measure of all-cause death or heart attack, as well as further reducing the need for repeat cardiac procedures -- reinforcing that XIENCE V is a true second-generation stent, which results in improved patient outcomes."

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