Cordis Corporation Release: TCT 2008 Concludes with Presentation of Positive Data for the CYPHER(R) Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent

WARREN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics annual meeting, also known as TCT2008, concluded recently with two important data presentations on studies that resulted in significant clinical differences between the CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent and Medtronic’s Endeavor® Stent. In both SORT OUT III and the Western Denmark Heart Registry, the CYPHER® Stent was associated with significantly lower rates of stent thrombosis and revascularization (the need for another procedure) than the Endeavor® Stent.
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