XTENT Announces Clinical Trial Data to be Presented at Annual Meeting of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics...( WASHINGTON and MENLO PARK Calif. ...),Health

WASHINGTON and MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XTENT, Inc. (Nasdaq: XTNT) today announced that it plans to present long-term follow-up data from the CUSTOM I, II and III clinical trials next week at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) twentieth annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, DC. The CUSTOM clinical trials are prospective studies designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of the Custom NX(R) drug eluting stent (DES) system in treating patients with coronary artery disease.

Pieter R. Stella, MD, Director, Cardiovascular Research, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands, and one of the CUSTOM clinical trial investigators, will present the data during a scientific symposium entitled, "The Drug Eluting Stent Summit, Part II," on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 2:54 p.m., eastern time, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, Level 3. The data presentation will be posted on the XTENT website at http://www.xtentinc.com.

About XTENT

XTENT, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing innovative customizable drug eluting stent (DES) systems for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD). CAD is the most common form of cardiovascular disease and the number one cause of death in the United States and Europe. XTENT(R) Custom NX(R) DES Systems are designed to enable the treatment of single lesions, long lesions and multiple lesions of varying lengths and diameters, in one or more arteries with a single device.

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