Different healing responses after treatment of bare metal stent restenosis with implantation of an everolimus-eluting Xience V stent (Abbott Vascular) versus use of a paclitaxel-eluting SeQuent Please balloon (BBraun): an optical coherence tomography study. A prospective, single-centre, randomized clinical trial with clinical, angiographic and OCT follow-up at 9 months.
Background: The optimal treatment of bare metal stent restenosis (implantation of a drug-eluting stent, simple balloon dilatation, CABG) is still not defined. The most used option nowadays is the implantation of a drug-eluting stent (DES). However, this procedure implies application of a double metal layer in the vessel wall, which is linked to delayed healing. Furthermore there might be a higher risk of malapposition of both struts of the bare metal and the newly implanted drug-eluting stents. These phenomenon's might give rise to an increased risk of stent thrombosis in this patient population. Recently, drug-eluting balloons (DEB) were proposed as a new treatment strategy for bare metal stent restenosis. The initial results of this technique look promising. Aim: To compare healing processes after treatment of BMS ISR with balloon dilatation using DEB versus implantation of DES. Methods: 50 patients with BMS restenosis (SVG and bifurcation lesions will be excluded) will be randomized into two treatment groups: SeQuent Please drug-eluting balloon dilatation (group I) versus implantation of an everolimus-eluting Xience V stent (group II). At 9 months, a control angiography with OCT pullback of the treated segment is planned.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Sequent Please Paclitaxel eluting balloon
Xience V everolimus eluting stent
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Stent strut coverage and stent strut apposition(assessed with OCT)
Time frame: 9 months
Lumen Loss (in-stent) at 9 months In-segment Late Lumen Loss at 9 months Cumulative MACE rate at 9 months Stent thrombosis at all follow-ups Target vessel revascularisation (TVR) at 12 months Device success
Time frame: 9 months, 12 months, yearly until 5 years
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