Medtronic Nets New Indications for Resolute Integrity Drug-Eluting Stent in Europe

As EuroPCR 2012 gets under way today, Medtronic, Inc.

announced that the Resolute Integrity Coronary Stent System has received European regulatory approval for several new indications, making it the drug-eluting stent (DES) with the broadest range of approved indications in Europe. The Resolute Integrity DES is now explicitly indicated in countries outside the United States that accept the CE mark for the following patient and lesion types: acute coronary syndromes, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina; diabetes mellitus; bifurcations; multi-vessel disease; total occlusions and chronic total occlusions; and in-stent restenosis. All but the indications for diabetes and multi-vessel disease are new. Two of the studies that contributed to the European regulatory authority's approval of these indications, RESOLUTE All Comers and RESOLUTE International, are the subject of several new data presentations at EuroPCR, which attracts thousands of physicians from around the world who specialize in cardiovascular interventions.