WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Early clinical results from Abbott's ongoing ABSORB clinical trial, the world's first study to evaluate the safety and performance of a fully bioabsorbable drug-eluting stent platform for the treatment of coronary artery disease in humans, were presented today during the 18th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium in Washington, D.C. Initial results for the first 30 patients in the trial demonstrated no MACE (Major Adverse Cardiac Events, such as heart attack) and no stent thrombosis at 30 days for patients who received a bioabsorbable everolimus-eluting stent.
