ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- MIV Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB:MIVT) (Frankfurt:MIV), a leading developer of next-generation coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, announces that Alexandre Abizaid, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Coronary Intervention of Institute Dante Pazzanese of Cardiology in Sao Paulo, Brazil, performed one live four-month follow-up case from the MIVT pilot trial at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2007 conference yesterday, during which angiographic, IVUS and OCT studies were conducted. This patient represented the 14th follow-up patient in the 15-patient First-in-Man pilot study with the VESTASYNC Polymer-Free HAp-Coated Sirolimus-Eluting Stent. The 15th patient, who was a back-up patient, if required for this live case in the event that the 14th patient was unable to undergo the procedure, will be followed up shortly, bringing to a close the four-month follow-up of the study.
