{"id":1533,"date":"2010-05-19T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/%e2%80%a2-novel-platinum-chromium-alloy-stent-found-safe-and-effective\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:58","slug":"novel-platinum-chromium-alloy-stent-found-safe-and-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/05\/19\/novel-platinum-chromium-alloy-stent-found-safe-and-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Platinum Chromium Alloy Stent Found Safe and Effective\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novel Platinum Chromium Alloy Stent Found Safe and Effective:<\/strong> The Taxus Element paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES), which features a novel, thin-strut platinum chromium alloy &#8220;designed to enhance radiopacity, radial strength, and conformability,&#8221; was found safe and effective in the PERSEUS (Prospective Evaluation in a Randomized Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of the Use of the TAXUS Element Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System) Workhorse trial. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/j.jacc.2010.04.011v1\">expedited publication in the <em>Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em><\/a><em><\/em>, Kereiakes and colleagues report on 1,262 patients with typical de novo coronary lesions who were randomized on a 3:1 basis to the Taxus Element or the Taxus Express PES. At one year, the rate of target lesion failure was 5.57% for Taxus Element and 6.14% for Taxus Express, a difference that met the predefined Bayesian criteria for noninferiority. No significant differences in clinical outcome were observed between the two groups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel Platinum Chromium Alloy Stent Found Safe and Effective: The Taxus Element paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES), which features a novel, thin-strut platinum chromium alloy &#8220;designed to enhance radiopacity, radial strength, and conformability,&#8221; was found safe and effective in the PERSEUS (Prospective Evaluation in a Randomized Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of the Use of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}