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Medtronic, Inc.

Endeavor Drug-Eluting Stent is First to Receive CE Mark for Treating Acute Coronary Syndrome

Published in Physician Law Weekly, June 3rd, 2009

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced that its Endeavor drug-eluting stent (DES) is the first and only coronary stent to have received CE (Conformite Europeene) Mark approval for treating patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), which includes unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as heart attack.

Medtronic is launching the unique ACS indication for the Endeavor DES today at PCR, a large and prestigious international meeting of interventional cardiologists. At this meeting today, Prof. Martin Rothman of the London Chest Hospital in the U.K. released positive new 12-month data from the international real-world registry E-Five study...

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