Ischemic Heart Disease/Coronary Artery Disease
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Age of 18 years or older. 2. Clinical symptoms of ischemic heart disease, OR ischemia confirmed by cardiac function tests. 3. Patients eligible for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and stent implant procedure. 4. Pre-procedure consent to the details and conditions of the study after pre- procedure explanation of the study, in principle. Post-procedure patient enrollment requires prior approval of the joint ethical committee for the method of post-procedure enrollment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Women known to be pregant or lactating mothers. 2. Known hypersensitivity or allergy to drugs including aspirin, heparin, clopidogrel, ticlopidine, and ABT- 578; rapamycin, tacrolimus, sirolimus, or their analogues, or other analogues/derivatives; or cobalt, chrome, nickel, molybdenum, or contrast media. 3. Life expectancy estimated to be less than 12 months. 4. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) accompanied by cardiogenic shock. 5. Preexisting stents (drug-eluting stents [DES] or bare metal stents [BMS]) in the target vessel (stents in a branch of the target vessel do not preclude enrollment). 6. Patients known to have difficulty in continuing dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) because of a plan of other surgery after stenting.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE; defined as all-cause death, myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass grafting, and target lesion revascularization [TLR]) at 12 months post-procedure. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of subacute stent thrombosis between 0 and 30 days post-procedure, and incidence of late-onset stent thrombosis between 31 and 360 days post-procedure. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Higashi Takarazuka Satoh Hospital Department of Cardiology