Biodegradeable Magnesium Stent with mechanical advantages of metal stents

[Anonymous]

Ok genius... You are not even talking about the same technology. If you would have read the very first post that BIO is the only company to have this technology.

A stent made of polylactide or from corn starch is hardly even close to the same technology as a magnesium based. The stent that ABbot is studying has no metallic properties and has no acute mechanical advantages that the stents they have been using for years.

If freaking plastic stents worked best they would have been using them a long time ago.

If you would have read the previous posts you might have understood that it's apples and oranges.

 

[Anonymous]

a lot of that "plastic" is being used in Europe and is one of the reasons these plastic like products are being so aggressively designed and pursued by MDT, BSX etc.

Stay on topic vs being a sarcastic ok? The point I was trying to make is Biotronik is a lot further along in terms of its vascular business than even some BIO people fail to realize

I know what's left in the patient is different in the 2 systems but make no mistake, all of these 5th generation stents will lap the current products by 2015(you may want to google the thoughts of arguably the most respected interventional cardiologist in Europe)

In my opinion, BIO is not only a sleeper in this market but a player, Multi billions of dollars based on current DES sales worldwide(7-8 billion?) is worth playing for.

 

[Anonymous]

I agree