CYPHER® Stent Benefits

Millions of people live lives hampered by coronary heart disease. Chest pain and shortness of breath force them to reduce their normal activities, and can cause them to feel confined.

The CYPHER^® Stent can open your arteries and restore the flow of blood to your heart, and can relieve the symptoms of heart disease such as the chest pain and shortness of breath. And that can bring you more choices for living.

A unique combination of technology and design, the CYPHER^® Stent has a special polymer coating that contains sirolimus, a medicine that releases over 90 days to help limit the overgrowth of normal cells while the artery heals. The unique repeat-pattern design of the CYPHER^® Stent allows the medicine to be distributed more evenly across the treated area.

The CYPHER^® Stent is the most studied stent in the world, and offers remarkable safety and unsurpassed efficacy to heart patients. Ask your doctor whether a stent could help change the quality of your life. Only he or she knows your medical history, and can judge what treatment might benefit you most.

Is the CYPHER® Stent right for you?

The CYPHER^® Stent is not right for everyone, like patients who:

• are allergic to the anti-rejection-type medication (sirolimus)
• are allergic to the polymers used in the coating
• cannot take anti-platelet medication such as aspirin
• cannot take anti-coagulant medication (blood thinners)
• have a blockage that the doctor decides will not allow complete inflation of the angioplasty balloon