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Table 1. Results at 10 months In the current study, the GenousTM stent was associated with significantly fewer major adverse cardiac events (MACE) than the TaxusTMor CypherTM drug-eluting stents. The study, presented at the recent Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology by Dr Federico Piscione (Federico II University of Naples, Italy) involved 195 high-risk patients who received either a GenousTM, TaxusTM or CypherTM stent. Dual antiplatelet therapy was given for one month to the patients receiving a GenousTM stent and for nine months to those given one of the drug-eluting stents. “GenousTM is a viable alternative to drug-eluting stents, whi