Boston Scientific Corporation announced positive data for the Eluvia™ Drug-Eluting Vascular Stent System (Eluvia stent) during a late-breaking clinical trial presentation at the Vascular InterVentional Advances meeting in Las Vegas. Data presented included one-year results from the EMINENT trial, which demonstrated superiority of the Eluvia stent compared to self-expanding bare metal stents for the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease and superficial femoral artery or popliteal artery lesions up to 210 mm in length. The study enrolled 775 patients, making it the largest randomized trial of a drug-eluting stent for the treatment of PAD to date. In the trial, the Eluvia stent exhibited superiority with a primary patency rate of 85.4% versus 76.3% with BMS (p=0.0077). The analysis also confirmed a significantly greater rate of sustained clinical improvement without reintervention, 83.0% for patients treated with the Eluvia stent compared to 76.6% for those treated with BMS (p=0.0450). Further, there was no significant difference in major adverse events or all-cause mortality rates between patients treated with the Eluvia stent and those treated with BMS through one year. The Eluvia stent was developed for the treatment of PAD the narrowing of the arteries of the legs due to plaque buildup which affects approximately 8.5 million people in the United States and more than 200 million people worldwide.3,4 Left untreated, PAD restricts blood flow to the legs and feet and patients often experience pain, swelling and a diminished quality of life. The Eluvia stent, which features sustained release of the lowest dose of paclitaxel of any peripheral drug-eluting device, re-opens blocked arteries and restores blood flow while utilizing a drug-polymer combination to prevent tissue regrowth.