November 14, 2011 – The TWENTE clinical trial, which compared Resolute versus Xience V drug-eluting stents in a real-world population established non-inferiority between the two stents as measured by the primary endpoint: target vessel failure (TVF) at one year. Both stents also demonstrated low rates of stent thrombosis. Trial results were presented at the 23rd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

November 14, 2011 – The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) reported that the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized the value of contrast agents in echocardiography and made very positive revisions to the U.S. label for Definity, an ultrasound contrast agent produced by Lantheus Medical Imaging.

November 14, 2011 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced data were presented on the quality of life impact and cost effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were presented at the 23rd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium. The data focused on patients at high risk for traditional open-heart surgery. TCT was sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

November 11, 2011 – Boston Scientific reported results from the EVOLVE first human use trial demonstrating the non-inferiority of the Synergy everolimus-eluting stent system compared to the Promus Element everolimus-eluting stent system in treating de novo coronary artery lesions. The trial provided 30-day clinical and six-month angiographic primary endpoint data evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the bioabsorbable polymer-coated Synergy stent. Results were presented today during a late-breaking clinical session by professor Ian T. Meredith, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., director of MonashHeart, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia, and principal investigator of the trial, at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium in San Francisco.

November 11, 2011 — The 30-day results from the 8,500+ patient ADAPT-DES registry were presented at the 2011 TCT conference in San Francisco. Patients with high platelet reactivity, as measured by the Accumetrics VerifyNow P2Y12 test, exhibited an approximately four times higher rate of stent thrombosis than patients without high platelet reactivity.

November 10, 2011 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditionally approved the addition of a second treatment group to the PARTNER II Trial. The trial is studying the company's next-generation Edwards Sapien XT transcatheter heart valve.

November 9, 2011 – AstraZeneca announced that a combined expert committee of American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart Association (AHA) and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has updated its guidelines for the management of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to provide a Class I recommendation for giving the oral antiplatelet medicine, Brilinta (ticagrelor) tablets for patients undergoing PCI.