(Updated) Abbott Laboratories has sent a letter to European physicians informing them that the Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) and Absorb GT1 BVS “will only be available for use in clinical registry setting at select sites/institutions.” The company’s action comes in response to an avalanche of bad news for the controversial device. Last fall 3-year results from…
More Bad News For The Once Promising Bioresorbable Stent
March 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
(Updated) –Problems for the Absorb BVS stent just won’t disappear Bad news for the Absorb BVS stent continues to accumulate, though defenders of the device keep looking for a silver lining. When it was approved in the US last summer the novel device appeared to have a bright future, with many prominent interventional cardiologists predicting…
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