* Dual antiplatelet agent therapy (DAPT) is essential in treating PCI patients. DAPT can minimize thrombotic adverse events that occur not only at the stented lesion, but along the whole coronary tree. However, DAPT has a critical side effect of increasing bleeding complications. Addressing the clinical imperatives of lowering bleeding while preserving ischemic benefit requires therapeutic strategies that decouple thrombotic from hemorrhagic risk. * Recently, the ARC definition of high bleeding risk (HBR) has been published, so as to stress the need of optimal DAPT treatment in HBR patients. Due to the definitely higher bleeding risk in HBR patients, it would be rather more straight forward to titrate the optimal DAPT duration in these patients. In this line, many studies are in progress on HBR patients, with an ultra-short DAPT duration (i.e. Leaders free, Onyx ONE, Master DAPT, Xience 28, Xience 90, Evolve short DAPT trial, etc.). * As a counteract to the definition of HBR, there is a concept of LBR. Due to the relatively vague ischemic/bleeding risk in LBR patients, balancing ischemic and bleeding complications post-PCI is more difficult in LBR patients, which may be a more important dilemma for clinicians. In this regards, limited evidence exists on the optimal duration of DAPT in LBR patients. Various previous studies that have evaluated the optimal DAPT in PCI populations, did not have the concept of HBR or LBR, making interpretation difficult. * Therefore, this study is planning to compare the efficacy and safety of different DAPT durations, in patients stratified according to the ARB-HBR definition.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
4,900
Patients who receive percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease will be randomized to arms with different DAPT strategies. The randomization will be stratified according to the High bleeding risk (defined according to the ARC-HBR criteria).
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Net Adverse Clinical Events
NACE; the composite of All-cause Death, Myocardial Infarction (MI), Stent thrombosis, Stroke, or Major Bleeding event
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any bleeding event
Bleeding events, defined by the BARC (Bleeding Academic Research Consortium) or ISTH (International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis) classification
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Major-Adverse Cardiac or Cerebral Events
MACCE; the composite of Cardiac Death, Myocardial Infarction (MI), Stent thrombosis, Ischemic Stroke
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Medication compliance
Medication compliance to the allocated DAPT regimen: A 'Pill count adherence' will be used to calculate medication compliance. This will be calculated by the following formula: '\[(quantity dispensed)-(quantity remaining)\] over (Prescribed number of tablets between dates of interview)'.
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Coronary thrombotic event
Myocardial Infarction, Stent thrombosis
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
All-cause death
Death due to any cause
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Cardiac death
Death due to cardiac cause
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Non-cardiac death
Death due to non-cardiac cause
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Cardiovascular death
Death due to cardiovascular cause
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Non-cardiovascular death
Death due to non-cardiovascular cause
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any myocardial infarction
Any myocardial infarction event (Clinically irrelevant periprocedural myocardial infarction will NOT be added to analysis)
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Target vessel related myocardial infarction
Any myocardial infarction related to the target vessel; according to the 'Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus'
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Non-Target vessel related myocardial infarction
Any myocardial infarction NOT related to the target vessel; according to the 'Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus'
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any revascularization
Any coronary revascularization event
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Non-Target vessel revascularization
Any revascularization event NOT related to the target vessel; according to the 'Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus'
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Target vessel revascularization
Any revascularization event related to the target vessel; according to the 'Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus'
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any stroke
Any cerebrovascular event
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any ischemic stroke
Any ischemic cerebrovascular event
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Any hemorrhagic stroke
Any hemorrhagic cerebrovascular event
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
Major bleeding
Major bleeding events, defined by the ISTH (International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis) classification
Time frame: 1-year after percutaneous coronary intervention
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