• ABT’s 3Q10 DES revenues (including Promus royalties) were $450M, +37% YoY with very string growth in Japan and China. DES’s now comprise 5% of ABT’s overall corporate revenue.
• US market share of Xience+Promus: 60%.
• Industry-wide DES penetration in US PCI procedures: 79%.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”