The FDA said it is investigating problems with Boston Scientific's Taxus stent after a Michigan hospital suspended use of the devices. William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak stopped using the ...

In-stent mean luminal diameter also remained constant in the two Taxus groups, at approximately 2.33 mm, but increased in the control patients, from 1.96 to 2.12 mm, between six and 24 months.

The ISAR-SMART 3 study, conducted in people undergoing de novo stenting of a vessel <2.80 mm in diameter, has once again shown Cypher to have an edge over the Taxus stent. (Mehilli J et al. <i>Eur ...

In the SPIRIT IV trial of 3,690 patients, XIENCE V demonstrated the following key results at two years: A 30 percent risk reduction in TLF compared to TAXUS (6.9 percent for XIENCE V vs. 9.9 ...