At this year’s annual EuroPCR meeting, Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX touted results from the first trial to compare two drug-coated balloons with different drug formulations – Boston Scientific’s Agent paclitaxel-coated PTCA device and B. Braun’s SeQuent Please balloon. The 125-patient study evaluated the balloons in patients with in-stent restenosis of a lesion previously treated with a drug-eluting […]
Here’s how Amaranth Medical plans to get ahead with its bioresorbable scaffold tech
There are two ways to make a bioresorbable, drug-eluting scaffold, according to Amaranth Medical CEO Kamal Ramzipoor. “The Amaranth way, or the conventional way, which our competition is using,” he told Drug Delivery Business News. “What we’ve seen throughout the years is the conventional method has some very significant limitations. And that’s what has manifested itself into, unfortunately, […]
Amaranth Medical looks to recapture the potential of bioresorbable scaffolds
Dr. Antonio Colombo had finished his presentation of 9-month data for Amaranth Medical‘s Aptitude sirolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold when an audience member asked about adverse events. He told the EuroPCR attendee that they hadn’t seen any adverse events related to the device during the trial – and that’s unusual. Bioresorbable scaffolds, like Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) Absorb, have been […]
EuroPCR Roundup: Bioresorbable stents show promise, but metallic drug-eluting stents remain standard
Updated to include a statement from an Abbott spokesperson. Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) bioresorbable scaffold has been plagued with a myriad of troubling data, including a study that showed that the device is associated with an increase in thrombosis and target lesion failure. In April, Abbott restricted use of the Absorb devices to clinical registry studies. In response […]
