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Mixed Reactions to St. Jude Medical (STJ)'s Latest Fame II Stent Study


8/29/2012 8:38:22 AM

More findings and analysis from St. Jude Medical's Fame II trial, studying fractional flow reserve-directing coronary stenting, leave some with "more questions than answers." St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) again touted results from its Fame II stenting study, reporting that patients who received percutaneous coronary intervention in addition to drug therapy were better off than patients who took drugs alone, but not all voices in the crowd were ready to accept the results. DR. William Boden, the principal investigator for the 2007 Courage stent trial, had grave concerns about the results of the study, waxing poetically that "these results call to mind the famous line from Shakespeare's Henry V that 'all fame is fleeting,' " according to his published critique.

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