Interventional technology firm Medtronic has finalized patient enrollment in its stent safety study known as PROTECT (Patient Related OuTcomes with Endeavor versus Cypher stenting Trial).
The Minneapolis-based firm has enrolled 8,800 patients at more than 200 medical centers worldwide in the study, which will compare the company's Endeavor drug-eluting stent to Johnson & Johnson's Cypher drug-eluting stent. The study's primary end point is overall stent thrombosis at three years, with secondary end points including death and nonfatal myocardial infarction, target lesion revascularization, and target vessel revascularization, Medtronic said.
The company expects that three-year data will be available in 2012.
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