ROME, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- OrbusNeich announced that clinical data presented at the Joint Intervention Meeting (JIM) 2010 in Rome provide further evidence that the company’s Genous stent could be a treatment of choice for patients not suitable for long term dual antiplatelet therapy. The investigator initiated, 50 patient, multicenter study evaluated the safety of patients receiving only 10 days dual antiplatelet therapy undergoing stenting with the Genous Bio-engineered R stent. The primary endpoint was the absence of stent thrombosis or any occlusion within three months.
“In our institution we use Genous for patients not suitable for prolonged DAPT (dual antiplatelet therapy) or in whom we feel it may have problems with DAPT compliance,” said Professor Sangiorgi. “For these patients and based on the extremely promising results we have had with Genous stent utilization, I believe that this stent can be the optimal compromise we can offer to our patients in terms of efficacy and safety as compared to bare metal or drug-eluting stents”.
Al Novak, OrbusNeich’s chairman and CEO, said, “Patients who cannot tolerate or take dual antiplatelet therapy, such as patients who have to undergo non-coronary surgery and have to discontinue dual antiplatelet therapy, represent a challenging patient subset. These data demonstrate that such patients can benefit from treatment with the Genous Bio-engineered R stent.”
OrbusNeich’s Genous Bio-engineered R stent has been commercially available in over 60 countries since 2005. The Genous stent has been proven as a safe, effective alternative to drug-eluting stents and is supported by data from more than 5,000 patients in company-sponsored clinical studies. There is a growing body of evidence from multiple clinical studies that the Genous stent is effective for patients who are non-responsive to or cannot tolerate long-term dual antiplatelet therapy.
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