Absorbing Debate: Boston Sci, Abbott Differ On Whether The Future Of Stents Is To Disappear
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Competing visions of the future of percutaneous coronary interventions were on display at TCT year, with Boston Scientific pushing its Synergy bioabsorbable polymer-coated, drug-eluting metal stent platform as the better long-term option to fully-resorbable scaffolds of the type Abbott is first out of the gate with.
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