OrbusNeich Medical today said it won market approval in Japan for its Combo Plus coronary stent. The Combo Plus stent is designed to address the risk of stent thrombosis associated with delayed healing in conventional drug-eluting stents. The Combo Plus DES uses endothelial progenitor cell capture technology and abluminal sirolimus drug elution delivered from a […]
ACC ’18 Roundup: OrbusNeich Combo drug-eluting stent succeeds in registries
OrbusNeich touted pooled data from two registries evaluating its dual-therapy stent this week at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. The Combo stent was implanted in more than 3,600 all-comer patients and followed by researchers for one year. The registries found that the device was safe and effective after one year, featuring a […]
TCT 2017: Medtronic & OrbusNeich evaluate shortening dual anti-platelet therapy with drug-eluting stents
At this year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, companies presented work comparing shortened durations of dual anti-platelet therapy with the standard 1-year regimen in patients treated with a drug-eluting stent. Among those companies were Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) and OrbusNeich. Here’s a look at what they found. Medtronic’s DAPT-STEMI trial Yesterday, investigators presented data from Medtronic’s independently-run DAPT-STEMI trial, […]
TCT 2017: OrbusNeich’s dual therapy stent non-inferior to Abbott’s Xience DES in 1-year follow-up
OrbusNeich touted results today from a pivotal registration study comparing its Combo dual therapy stent with Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) Xience stent in patients with ischemic heart disease. The trial is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of OrbusNeich’s combined endothelial progenitor cell capture and drug-eluting stent. The data showed that the device is non-inferior to Abbott’s drug-eluting […]
OrbusNeich launches Combo Plus stent
OrbusNeich said today that it launched the latest version of its dual-therapy stent, the Combo Plus, featuring an antibody biological coating designed to promote vessel healing in patients with complex coronary artery disease. After the stent is implanted, the biological coating captures endothelial progenitor cells and kicks off formation of an endothelial layer. A coating of bioabsorbable polymer […]
