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Acusphere, Inc.
Acusphere Announces Data Demonstrating Imagify Perfusion Stress Echo Predicts Presence of Coronary Artery Disease
November 28th, 2008
Acusphere, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUS) announced that additional analyses from its Phase 3 clinical trials of Imagify(TM) (Perflubutane Polymer Microspheres) for Injectable Suspension were presented today at the annual American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana. These results build upon the thesis presented at AHA last year that Imagify Perfusion Stress Echo is an effective and well-tolerated, minimally invasive approach to evaluating chest pain patients at risk for heart attack. The new analysis ascribes incremental predictive value to the use of Imagify for detecting coronary artery disease over other current clinical risk factors. Imagify is the...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-11-28)
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