TCT In Brief

Abbott bioabsorbable stent 30-day success rate is 94%: Everolimus-eluting, bioabsorbable BVS coronary stent achieves 93.5% delivery success rate with no major adverse cardiac events or stent thrombosis at 30-day follow-up. Results of Abbott's ABSORB trial, for BVS use in single, de novo, native coronary vessels, were presented Oct. 24 at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in Washington, D.C., by principal investigator John Ormiston, MD, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand. The stent demonstrated 7% recoil - "very similar to the recoil of a metallic stent," Ormiston said. Raimund Erbel, MD, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, cautioned that the durability of polymer stent radial strength remains a concern because the polymers degrade over time (1"The Gray Sheet" April 10, 2006, p. 16)...