ACC In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
TAXUS II: Anti-restenotic effects of paclitaxel are maintained beyond the cessation of clopidogrel therapy at six months post-implant, according to twelve-month data from Boston Scientific's trial of the Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent, presented March 27 by Antonio Columbo, MD, Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan. Target lesion revascularization rates were 4.7% and 3.8% in the slow drug-release and moderate drug-release groups, respectively at 12 months, compared with 14.4% in the control group. One-year follow-up results represent a slight increase in each group over the six-month TLR rates presented in September at the annual TCT meeting in Washington, D.C. (1"The Gray Sheet" Sept. 30, 2002, p. 5)...