Stentys Self-Apposing® Stent Demonstrates Lowest Mortality Rate Among Large Heart Attack Trials

PRINCETON, N.J. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STENTYS (FR0010949404 – STNT), a medical technology company commercializing in Europe the world's first and only Self-Apposing® Stent to treat acute myocardial infarction (AMI), announced today one-year results of the APPOSITION III clinical trial in 1,000 patients post treatment of a severe heart attack at ACC.13, the American College of Cardiology’s Scientific Session & Expo. The APPOSITION III trial is a prospective, single-arm, multi-center study designed to assess the long term performance of STENTYS Self-Apposing Stents in routine clinical practice in Europe among patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The primary endpoint, Major Adverse Cardiac Events rate (MACE, defined as cardiac death, target vessel re-MI, emergent by-pass, or clinically-driven TVR) at one year, was 9.3%, where conventional stents average 11.1% in a pooled analysis from ACTION Study Group (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris). At the one-year time point, the cardiac death rate was 2.0%, as compared with rates for conventional stents in other published trials which average 3.9%, the lowest rate being 2.2%.