The mean age of the study population was 63 +/- 11 years and 72 percent of patients were male. In addition, 18 percent of patients in the study cohort had diabetes mellitus.  For the lesions treated, 75 percent were type B2/C lesions, 20 percent chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesions and 24 percent bifurcated lesions. The average stent length was 24.6 +/- 11.7 mm.

During a separate session, Dr Klomp presented the data of a patient treated with the Genous Bio-engineered R stent that underwent 6 and 18 months angiographic follow up.

"In our real world experience with the Genous Bio-engineered R stent, we have seen a significant regression of neointimal hyperplasia when we do longer term angiographic follow up," said Prof. Robbert de Winter, M.D., Ph.D., of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and a co-investigator of the study. "In several patients from this cohort, we saw a remarkable regression in intimal hyperplasia tissue between 6 and 18 month follow up."

SOURCE OrbusNeich