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Expert Webinar Explores Pressing Questions About Biosorbable Stent Technology

 
• By Reed Miller

Boston Scientific and inVentive Health recently sponsored a webinar with four internationally well-known experts on coronary stent technology to discuss the pros and cons of new bioabsorbable polymer stent technologies – both the fully resorbable stents and metal drug-eluting stents with a bioresorbable polymer. Here's a summary of the discussion. Medtech Insight is also providing a complete transcript of the event.

[Editor's note: The complete edited transcript of the Aug. 11 webinar featuring Dr. Jeffrey Moses, Dr. Robert Byrne, Dr. Elizabeth Holper and Dr. Michael Rinaldi is available here. Medtech Insight also conducted a follow-up interview with Byrne.]

Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) is a promising technology, but it presents several unique challenges...

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