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Abbott Announces Positive Nine-Month Results From the World's First,Clinical Trial of a Fully Bioabsorbable Drug Eluting Coronary Stent

Absorbable Stent Continues to Show Promise as Future-Generation Technology

BARCELONA, Spain, May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott today announced positive results from ABSORB, the world's first clinical trial evaluating the safety and performance of a fully bioabsorbable drug eluting stent platform for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Nine-month results from the first 30 patients in the trial, presented today at the EuroPCR meeting, demonstrated no stent thrombosis and a low (4.0 percent, one patient) rate of Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE), such as heart attack or repeat interventional medical treatment. The results confirm the six-month findings from ABSORB, which were announced in March 2007, and show no new adverse events between six and nine months.

"These ABSORB nine-month data reaffirm the positive results we saw with Abbott's bioabsorbable stent system at six months," said ABSORB investigator Dariusz Dudek, M.D., Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. "As we continue the ABSORB trial, we look forward to evaluating an updated version of the stent system designed to deliver additional support to the arterial wall and with the potential to reduce late lumen loss (vessel renarrowing) even further."

Abbott's everolimus eluting bioabsorbable stent is made of polylactic acid, a proven biocompatible material that is commonly used in medical implants such as dissolvable sutures. As with a metallic stent, Abbott's bioabsorbable stent is designed to restore blood flow by propping a clogged vessel open, and provide support until the blood vessel heals. Unlike a metallic stent however, a bioabsorbable stent is designed to be slowly metabolized by the body and completely absorbed over time.

At the EuroPCR meeting, Abbott will unveil an updated, bioabsorbable stent design that will be used in the next cohort of patients enrolled in the ABSORB trial. The new stent features
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