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TAXUS IV is a randomized, double-blind pivotal trial designed to assess the safety and efficacy of a paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in reducing restenosis in de novo lesions 10-28 mm in length and 2.5-3.75 mm in diameter. The study, which enrolled 1,326 patients at 73 sites in the United States, had 95 percent follow-up at five years for both the paclitaxel-eluting stent and BMS populations (618 patients treated with the TAXUS Stent and 612 patients treated with BMS). The primary endpoint of the TAXUS IV clinical trial was TVR, or re-intervention, at nine months.

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