{"id":26099,"date":"2012-02-23T20:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26099"},"modified":"2012-02-23T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:17:46","slug":"fda-grants-mi-indication-for-drug-eluting-stents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/02\/23\/fda-grants-mi-indication-for-drug-eluting-stents\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Grants MI Indication for Drug-Eluting Stents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Scientific <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonscientific.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=24889&amp;item=122390\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday that the FDA had approved the use of its Ion and Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting stents for the treatment of patients with MI. These are the first drug-eluting stents to receive a specific indication for MI.<\/p>\n<p>The new indication is based on data from the Taxus clinical program and the HORIZONS-AMI trial. Acute MI accounts for about 10% of \u00a0coronary interventions, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Scientific announced on Wednesday that the FDA had approved the use of its Ion and Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting stents for the treatment of patients with MI. These are the first drug-eluting stents to receive a specific indication for MI. The new indication is based on data from the Taxus clinical program and the HORIZONS-AMI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[821,222,245],"class_list":["post-26099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-drug-eluting-stents","tag-fda-approvals","tag-mi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099","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=26099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}