PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - Stone, Gregg TI - The PLATINUM Trial: New Metal Alloy DES is Similar to a Predicate DES for Uncomplicated Elective PCI DP - 2011 Jun 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 15--15 VI - 11 IP - 3 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/3/15.1.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/3/15.1.full AB - A novel platinum-chromium everolimus-eluting stent proved to be as safe and effective as the cobalt-chromium everolimus-eluting stent in the 12-month Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Trial to Assess an Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System [PROMUS Element] for the Treatment of up to Two De Novo Coronary Artery Lesions Trial [PLATINUM; NCT00823212], the first large-scale, international, multicenter, prospective, single-blind, randomized trial of the novel stent [Stone GW et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011].