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| | In | the | SPIRIT | II | trial, | both | TAXUS | Express2 | (73 | percent | of | lesions) | and | TAXUS | Liberte | (27 | percent | of | lesions) | were | used | as | controls |
** In the SPIRIT III trial, TAXUS Express2 was used as the control.
*** Event rates are based on Kaplan-Meier estimates. P-values are for descriptive purposes only.
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