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Starts & Stops: Abbott, Boston Scientific Head List Of Early 2018 Trial Announcements

 
• By Reed Miller

Starts & Stops is a regular feature in Medtech Insight highlighting noteworthy clinical trial announcements, initiations, completions, and suspensions tracked by Meddevicetracker. This edition covers the start of 2018, which includes important trial announcements from Abbott, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Edwards and many more. The Stops & Starts feature will be switching to a weekly schedule as of March 5 to offer more timely updates on medical device trials.

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Abbott Laboratories' Vascular division announced Feb 12. that the first patient has been treated in the 800-patient XIENCE 28 GLOBAL trial, a single arm, 50-center, open label, trial to further evaluate the safety of four-weeks of dual antiplatelet therapy following stenting with a Xience everolimus-eluting stent in patients at a high risk of bleeding. The Xience stents evaluated in the trial include Xience Xpedition, Xience Alpine, Xience Prox, or Xience Sierra.

The primary endpoint of XIENCE 28 GLOBAL is a composite rate of myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, death, stroke, or major bleeding between one and six months. Abbott is also sponsoring...

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