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The COMPLETE Treatment of Bifurcation With Two-stent Techniques: Randomized Comparison of Crush Versus Culotte Technique

The COMPLETE Treatment of Bifurcation With Two-stent Techniques: Randomized Comparison of Crush Versus Culotte Technique

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05488665
Acronym
COMPLETE
Enrollment
512
Registered
2022-08-04
Start date
2022-11-10
Completion date
2028-09-27
Last updated
2024-10-23

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Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease

Brief summary

In this COMPLETE randomized trial, using the contemporary second-generation drug-eluting stent, we aimed to test whether the crush technique is superior to the culotte technique for the treatment of bifurcation lesions in terms of 1-year target-lesion failure.

Interventions

Treatment for bifurcation with the Crush technique

DEVICECulotte technique

Treatment for bifurcation with the culotte technique

Sponsors

Yonsei University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
19 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Age ≥19 years 2. De novo coronary lesions eligible for drug-eluting stent implantation 3. Medina 1,1,1 or 1,0,1 or 0,1,1 de novo bifurcation lesions (LM or non-LM) and those of main vessel or side branch can be covered by 2 stents 4. Reference vessel diameter of side branch ≥2.5 mm by visual estimation

Exclusion criteria

1. Current or potential pregnancy 2. Inability to follow the patient over the period of 1 year after enrollment, as assessed by the investigator 3. Subjects with ST elevation myocardial infarction \<24 h from the onset of chest pain 4. Cardiogenic Shock

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Target lesion failure1 yearThe composite of cardiovascular death, target vessel myocardial infarction or clinically driven target lesion revascularization

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Target vessel myocardial infarction1 yearThe definition of myocardial infarction followed the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction and The Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus Document.
Clinically driven target-lesion revascularization1 yeara repeat percutaneous intervention of the target lesion or bypass surgery of the target vessel performed for restenosis or other complication of the target lesion.
Cardiovascular death1 yearDeath resulting from cardiovascular causes.
Target-vessel or non-target vessel myocardial infarction1 yearThe definition of myocardial infarction followed the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction and The Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus Document.
Definite or probable stent thrombosis1 yearStent thrombosis is defined according to the Academic Research Consortium definition
All-cause of death1 year

Countries

South Korea

Contacts

Primary ContactByeong-Keuk Kim, MD, PhD
KIMBK@yuhs.ac82-02-2228-8465

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026