The Impact Of ABSORB II: Down The Slippery Slope

When it was approved earlier this year in July the Absorb (Abbott) bioresorbable stent provoked a fair amount of discussion about the “slippery slope of noninferiority.” Although the stent met the FDA criteria for approval, the available trial results went in the wrong direction and there was a particularly concerning warning sign of a higher…

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Reality Check On The ‘Noninferior’ Abbott Bioresorbable Stent

–The slippery slope of noninferiority. Last week the big news in interventional cardiology was the approval of Abbott’s bioresorbable stent, Absorb. There’s no doubt that this represents a remarkable technical achievement, propping open a clogged artery and then gradually disappearing. There are all sorts of theoretical reasons why this might represent an important advance over traditional stents that…

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