Clinical trials

The COMPLETE study is a single-centre, investigator-initiated study of patients with an indication for invasive coronary angiography with CCTA performed during the diagnostic evaluation. After identifying the presence of a coronary stenosis, defined as an epicardial lesion \>50% stenosis on CCTA, patients eligible for the study will be invited to participate. The main aim of this trial is to assess the accuracy of coronary CT angiography to quantify total atheroma volume with intravascular ultrasound as reference. Patients will be divided into 2 sub-groups: Cohort 1: Patients with stable coronary artery disease or stabilized acute coronary syndromes with a clinical indication for invasive coronary angiography. Cohort 2: Patients previously revascularized with a metallic stent with a clinical indication for invasive coronary angiography. In both cohorts, patients should have undergone coronary CT angiography as part of the standard of care. Patients included in the study will be managed according to the standard of care for the assessment of coronary artery disease. Clinical follow-up will be collected until 3 years follow-up.

The goal of this observational study is to assess the diagnostic performance of 3D Stent to detect stent under-expansion in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. The main question it aims to answer is: The study hypothesis is that 3DStent technology will offer a comparable assessment of stent expansion compared to intravascular imaging.

Recently, a new device for measuring physiological lesion severity, the pressure microcatheter, was introduced. The pressure microcatheter provides similar information to the conventional measurement technique but differs as it is easily advanced on a customary coronary wire and simplifies pullback maneuvers. The pressure microcatheter has been shown to provide comparable FFR results to pressure wires. Insightful-FFR is an investigator-driven, multicenter, randomized, open-label and prospective trial of patients with stable coronary artery disease or stabilised non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with epicardial stenosis considered for PCI aiming at comparing clinical outcomes between pressure microcatheter and pressure wire-guided strategies. The study hypothesis states that the use of a Pressure Microcatheter for clinical decision making would be non-inferior to pressure wire-based strategy After determining the presence of a coronary artery disease/ stabilized acute coronary syndrome, patients will be randomized to use a pressure microcatheter (investigational device) or a pressure wire (comparator) to guide and optimize percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Patients will be followed up in hospital at 12 months and yearly until five years.