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Boston Scientific now has two drug-eluting stents with European approval

Published in Cardiovascular Business Week, November 14th, 2006

Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) announced that the PROMUS everolimus-eluting coronary stent system has received CE Mark approval, making Boston Scientific the only company to offer two distinct approved drug-eluting stent (DES) platforms in the CE geographies.

This approval allows Boston Scientific to begin marketing the new DES in the 25 countries of the European Union and will support market registrations in other regulated countries in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

The Promus stent is a private-labeled Xience V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary stent system manufactured by Abbott and distributed by Boston Scientific. It will complement Boston...

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