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"Not only did the SPIRIT III trial meet its primary and major secondary endpoints, but it showed a statistically significant reduction in major adverse cardiac events, favoring XIENCE V," said Gregg W. Stone, M.D., of Medical Center and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, principal investigator of the SPIRIT III clinical trial, who presented the results today. "The enhanced freedom from adverse events with XIENCE V, coupled with its low profile, makes the XIENCE V stent an important advance for patients with coronary artery disease."

One-Year SPIRIT II European Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Continued Safety with XIENCE V; Zero Late Stent Thrombosis in SPIRIT FIRST and SPIRIT II Under New ARC Definition

In the important clinical endpoint of MACE, one-year follow-up results from 300 patients enrolled in Abbott's randomized SPIRIT II European clinical trial demonstrated superiority for XIENCE V compared to TAXUS in an additional analysis with a statistically significant 71 percent reduction in major adverse cardiac events for XIENCE V-treated patients compared to TAXUS-treated patients (2.7 percent XIENCE V, 9.2 percent TAXUS, p superior =0.04). These data are available in an online poster session to registrants of the of Cardiology's 56th Annual Scientific Session.

Under the new Dublin/Academic Research Consortium (ARC) definition of late-stent thrombosis (blood clotting events in stents), which was developed to eliminate variability in the definitions across various drug-eluting stent trials, the late stent thrombosis rate with XIENCE V in the SPIRIT II trial out to one year was zero percent for XIENCE V (0/220 patients treated with XIENCE V) and 1.3 percent for TAXUS (1/76 patients
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