BOSTON SCIENTIFIC ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN APPROVAL AND LAUNCH OF OMEGA(TM) PLATINUM CHROMIUM STENT SYSTEM

Third-generation bare-metal stent now available in CE Mark countries

NATICK, Massachusetts, March 7, 2011 - Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced it
has received CE Mark for its OMEGA(TM) Platinum Chromium Bare-Metal Coronary
Stent System, the Company's third-generation coronary stenting technology.
The OMEGA Stent System incorporates a unique platinum chromium (PtCr) alloy
designed specifically for coronary stenting and is intended to provide
interventional cardiologists a bare-metal stent with improved acute
performance in treating patients with coronary artery disease. The Company
will begin marketing the OMEGA Stent System immediately in the European Union
and other CE Mark countries.

"In my experience, the platinum chromium alloy and stent
design used in the OMEGA Stent offer excellent deliverability, visibility and
conformability without sacrificing radial strength or resistance to stent
recoil," said Antonio Colombo, M.D., Director of the Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory at Columbus Hospital and San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy.
"The OMEGA Stent and platinum chromium alloy offer meaningful performance
improvements without the tradeoffs associated with older stent alloys."

The OMEGA Stent System is part of the Company's PtCr Stent
series, which includes the TAXUS(R) Element(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent and
PROMUS Element(TM) Everolimus-Eluting Stent Systems. All three stents feature
the novel PtCr alloy and an innovative stent design, which combine to offer
greater radial strength and flexibility while reducing stent recoil. The
higher density alloy provides superior visibility while permitting thinner
struts compared to prior-generation stents[1]. The enhanced delivery system
features a dual-layer balloon and is engineered to improve access to
challenging lesions.

"The platinum chromium PROMUS Element and TAXUS Element Stents
have been well received by physicians since their launch in CE Mark
countries, and we are pleased to now offer a bare-metal coronary stent built
on the same PtCr platform," said Mike Phalen, Executive Vice President and
President, International for Boston Scientific. "The OMEGA Stent is the
latest example of Boston Scientific's commitment to continued innovation in
coronary stenting. We are confident our platinum chromium stent technology
will further extend our worldwide stent market leadership."

"The positive clinical data from our PtCr (Element) series
trials support the acute performance benefits provided by our new platinum
chromium stent platform," said Keith D. Dawkins, M.D., Senior Vice President
and Chief Medical Officer for Boston Scientific's Cardiology, Rhythm and
Vascular Group. "The OMEGA Stent complements the PtCr Stent series to provide
a full range of coronary stenting solutions for interventional cardiologists,
giving them the option to treat patients with a paclitaxel, everolimus or
bare-metal stent."

The OMEGA Stent is offered in 48 different sizes ranging in
diameter from 2.25 mm to 4.50 mm and lengths of 8 mm to 32 mm. Boston
Scientific offers the most comprehensive coronary stent portfolio in the
industry, offering physicians and their patients the broadest size matrix and
the industry's only two-drug platform. The Company received CE Mark approval
for the PROMUS Element Everolimus-Eluting Stent System in October 2009 and
for the TAXUS Element Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System in May 2010.

About Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and
marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a broad range of
interventional medical specialties. For more information, please visit:
www.bostonscientific.com.

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    Geraldine Varoqui
    Boston Scientific PR Director International
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    [1] Based on bench testing. Data on file with Boston Scientific.

CONTACT: Geraldine Varoqui, Boston Scientific PR Director International, Tel: +49-2102-489-461, varoquig at bsci.com