Abbott's market-leading drug-eluting stent (DES) Xience V has surpassed Taxus Express2, a rival device marketed by Boston Scientific, in a clinical trial. One-year data from the SPIRIT IV trial demonstrated that the everolimus-eluting Xience V achieved superiority over Taxus in the ...
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Abbott's Xience V beats Taxus in large-scale SPIRIT IV trial
24 September 2009
Elizabeth Cairns
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