Boston Scientific Receives CE Mark Approval for the SYNERGY™ Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, Featuring A Novel Bioabsorbable Polymer Coating

Boston Scientific Receives CE Mark Approval for the SYNERGY™ Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, Featuring A Novel Bioabsorbable Polymer Coating PR Newswire NATICK, Massachusetts, Oct. 31, 2012 - This Innovative Bioabsorbable Coating is the First to Complete Absorption Shortly after Drug Elution Ends at Three Months NATICK, Massachusetts, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) received CE Mark approval for the SYNERGY™ Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System featuring an ultra- thin abluminal (outer) bioabsorbable polymer coating. The SYNERGY Stent is the latest innovation in drug-eluting stent technology from Boston Scientific. It is unique in that its proprietary PLGA polymer and everolimus drug coating dissipate by three months. This innovation has the potential to improve post-implant vessel healing and will eliminate long-term polymer exposure, a possible cause of late adverse events. "With the SYNERGY Stent, drug release and polymer absorption occur in parallel and are complete at about three months after stent implantation," said Ian Meredith, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Professor and Director of Monish Heart, at Monish Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia and the principal investigator of the EVOLVE clinical study. "This exciting advance may improve long-term safety and efficacy compared to current durable polymer DES and perhaps even reduce the need for prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy.