The Case For Disappearing Stents: More Positive Data For Abbott’s Absorb BVS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
This year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting featured several presentations of favorable new data on Abbott’s Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold. The company is optimistic that it will be able to complete a PMA application to FDA for the disappearing stent by the end of 2015.
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