Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) has started patient enrollment in the OMEGA clinical trial, designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Company's OMEGA™ Platinum Chromium Bare-Metal Coronary Stent System in treating patients with a single coronary artery lesion. This prospective, single-arm trial will enroll 328 patients at 40 sites in the U.S. and Europe. The first patient was enrolled this week by Prof. Andrejs Erglis, M.D., OMEGA Principal Investigator, at Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital in Riga, Latvia. The trial's Coordinating Principal Investigators are John Wang, M.D., of Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and Prof. Christian Hamm, M.D., of the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

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