ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics
(OTCBB:MIVT) (FWB:MIV), a leading developer of next generation
biocompatible coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for
Cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, is
pleased to announce that results from an animal trial comparing its
proprietary polymer free Hydroxyapatite-coated drug-eluting
cardiovascular stent to J&J's Cypher Stent will be presented at
this weeks EuroPCR 2007 conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Willem J. van der Giesen, MD, PhD from the Erasmus University
Medical Center will make a presentation on next generation drug
eluting stents, in which he will discuss the results of the 4 week
porcine study, performed by the Department of Cardiology,
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands,
an independent research organization.
The study indicated that three variations of MIVT's
Hydroxyapatite-based Drug-Eluting stents were at least as effective
as, and in some cases, better than one of the worlds leading
drug-eluting cardiovascular stents produced by Johnson &
Johnson (Cypher(TM)). These results provided the necessary data to
advance the technology to human studies.
Hydroxyapatite, unlike polymer coatings, is naturally derived
and found in such hard tissues and bioceramic materials as human
bone and teeth. Research has indicated that MIVT's HAp coatings do
not trigger the various adverse and inflammatory reactions that are
often associated with implantation of polymer-coated stents and
other foreign substances.
HAp coatings are also expected to reduce the risk of
thrombogenic (blood clotting) events attributable in some instances
to polymer-coated stents. Some of the most recent information
presented at various conferences estimated that thrombogenicity was
identified in at least 20,000 cases of implanted drug-eluting
stents to-date, resulting in approximately 8,000
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