May 27 2004
Guidant Corporation today announced results from two clinical trials evaluating everolimus eluting stents. Twelve-month results from the FUTURE II clinical trial will be reviewed by Beverly Lorell, M.D., Guidant vice president and chief medical and technology officer, during the company’s mid-quarter conference call tomorrow, Thursday, May 27. Thirty-day results from the SPIRIT FIRST feasibility study evaluating Guidant’s MULTI-LINK VISION® Coronary Stent System-based drug eluting stent system for the treatment of coronary artery disease were presented by Jan J. Piek, M.D., of the Academic Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, University of Amsterdam, today at the Paris Course on Revascularization (EuroPCR) conference taking place through Friday, May 28.
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