Boston Scientific to Release Broad Range of Clinical Trial Data Reinforcing Safety and Efficacy of Taxus(R) Coronary Stent Systems a...( NATICK Mass. Oct. 16 /- Boston Sc...),Health

NATICK, Mass., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the schedule of the Company's major events and press announcements at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) nineteenth annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, which runs from October 20 to 25 in Washington, D.C.

Boston Scientific will be announcing a wide range of safety and efficacy data on its market-leading TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) and TAXUS(R) Liberte(R) Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent Systems, including final five-year results from the TAXUS IV clinical trial, which studies the TAXUS Express(TM) Stent, and nine- month data on small vessels and long lesions from the ATLAS trial, which studies the TAXUS Liberte Stent. In addition, the Company will present long- term data from the TAXUS V de novo clinical trial and the TAXUS ARRIVE registry.

"The extensive data to be presented at TCT will continue to reinforce the safety, efficacy and deliverability of the TAXUS Stent Systems," said Paul LaViolette, Chief Operating Officer of Boston Scientific. "We are pleased to be able to complement our market-leading TAXUS Stents with the addition of our PROMUS(TM) Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System in international markets, and the industry's deepest drug-eluting stent (DES) pipeline, which includes our third-generation TAXUS(R) Element(TM) Stent -- currently in clinical trials."

PROMUS is a private-labeled XIENCE(TM) V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System manufactured by Abbott and distributed by Boston Scientific Corporation outside the United States. It is currently pending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is not commercially available in
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