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Invasive Versus Non-invasive Approach in Symptomatic Patient With Non-High Risk Coronary Artery Stenosis

Invasive Versus Non-invasive Approach in Symptomatic Patients With Non-High Risk Coronary Artery Stenosis (SMART-STEP Trial)

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05799092
Acronym
SMART-STEP
Enrollment
2000
Registered
2023-04-05
Start date
2023-10-02
Completion date
2030-12-31
Last updated
2025-11-20

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease

Keywords

Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography, Non-High Risk Obstructive CAD, Diagnostic Approach, Invasive Coronary Angiography, Non-Invasive Functional Test

Brief summary

A pragmatic, prospective, multi-center, open label, randomized controlled, superiority trial. The study will compare clinical outcomes between invasive versus non-invasive approach as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) on coronary computed tomography-angiography (CCTA).

Detailed description

CCTA has been emerged as useful diagnostic tool to evaluate CAD. Besides high diagnostic accuracy, CCTA has additional benefit of measuring the cumulative atherosclerotic burden and more accurately discriminating obstructive CAD with additional fractional flow reserve by CT (FFRCT), making it more predictive of a patient's prognosis. Recently, several randomized clinical trials have demonstrated the clinical utility of CCTA when compared with noninvasive stress test, which has been previously widely used as an initial assessment for stable chest pain, or invasive coronary angiography, which is the gold standard for diagnosing obstructive CAD. On this background, CCTA, along with stress imaging test, is recommended as first step to diagnose obstructive CAD in patients with intermediate to high pretest probabilities with stable chest pain and is increasingly utilized. Although CCTA is increasingly used as initial assessment tool in these patients, there are insufficient studies to clearly establish the next step after obstructive CAD is confirmed in CCTA. Without high-risk features of CAD on CCTA, current guidelines suggest noninvasive stress imaging or FFRCT as class IIA recommendation. However, supporting evidence of these suggestions are mostly based on studies with low level of evidence. Furthermore, given the limited diagnostic performance of noninvasive stress test, concern remains whether it is safe to defer invasive coronary angiography based on the result from noninvasive stress test in patients with obstructive CAD on CCTA. Therefore, this trial aims to compare clinical outcomes between invasive versus non-invasive approach as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive CAD on CCTA.

Interventions

As alternative to non-invasive functional testing, invasive coronary angiography will be performed.

DIAGNOSTIC_TESTNon-invasive functional test

Standard non-invasive functional testing will be performed.

Sponsors

Samsung Medical Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Masking description

Clinical outcome assessment will be performed under blinded assessment about the allocated treatment group.

Intervention model description

Pragmatic, prospective, multi-center, open label, randomized controlled, superiority trial.

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

1. Subject age ≥19 years old 2. Patients with new or worsening chest pain syndrome, equivalent symptoms, or abnormal laboratory test findings (suspected ischemic changes in electrocardiography, regional wall motion abnormality in echocardiography, or coronary calcium score \> 100) suspected for clinically significant CAD who are evaluated by CCTA 3. Any other clinical circumstance in which physician judged to proceed CCTA 4. Obstructive CAD in CCTA (≥50% diameter stenosis) 5. Subject who can verbally confirm understandings of risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives of receiving invasive approach and he/she or his/her legally authorized representative provides written informed consent prior to any study related procedure.

Exclusion criteria

1. Diagnosed or suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) requiring hospitalization or urgent or emergent testing (elevated cardiac troponin or CK-MB) 2. High risk CAD (left main stenosis ≥ 50%; anatomically significant 3-vessel disease with ≥70% stenosis) 3. Hemodynamically or clinically unstable condition (systolic BP \< 90 mmHg, ventricular arrhythmias, or persistent resting chest pain in ischemic nature despite adequate therapy 4. Known CAD with previous MI, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) 5. Known true anaphylaxis to contrast medium (not allergic reaction but anaphylactic shock) 6. Known significant congenital, severe valvular or cardiomyopathic (hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy, or any other forms) process which could explain cardiac symptoms. 7. Severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction \<30%) 8. Intolerance to Aspirin, Clopidogrel, or Heparin. 9. Non-cardiac co-morbid conditions are present with life expectancy \<2 year or that may result in protocol non-compliance (per site investigator's medical judgment) 10. Unwillingness or inability to comply with the procedures described in this protocol.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Time to first event of major adverse cardiac events (MACE)2 years after the last patient enrollmentMACE is a composite of death from any causes, myocardial infarction (MI), clinically driven unplanned revascularization.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
All-cause death2 years after the last patient enrollmentAll-cause death
Cardiac death2 years after the last patient enrollmentCardiac death
Any MI2 years after the last patient enrollmentDefined by Forth Universal definition of MI
Seattle Angina Questionnaire6 months after initial management according to allocated diagnostic testSeattle Angina Questionnaire
Spontaneous MI2 years after the last patient enrollmentDefined by Forth Universal definition of MI
Procedure-related MI2 years after the last patient enrollmentDefined by ARC II definition
Resuscitated cardiac arrest2 years after the last patient enrollmentResuscitated cardiac arrest
Total medical cost2 years after the last patient enrollmentTotal medical cost
Cerebrovascular accidents2 years after the last patient enrollmentCerebrovascular accidents (ischemic or hemorrhagic)
Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events2 years after the last patient enrollmentMajor adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE, a composite of death, MI, clinically-driven unplanned revascularization, or cerebrovascular accident)
Rate of index coronary angiographyup to 30 days following randomizationRate of index coronary angiography
Rate of index revascularization by PCI or CABGup to 30 days following randomizationRate of index revascularization by PCI or CABG
European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions6 months after initial management according to allocated diagnostic testEuropean Quality of Life-5 Dimensions
Procedure-related complications from invasive procedureup to 30 days following randomizationProcedure-related complications from invasive procedure
Unplanned revascularization (clinically driven)2 years after the last patient enrollmentUnplanned revascularization (clinically driven)

Countries

South Korea

Contacts

Primary ContactJoo Myung Lee, MD, MPH, PhD
drone80@hanmail.net82-2-3410-3391
Backup ContactDavid Hong, MD
hongdawi@naver.com82-2-3410-3391

Outcome results

None listed

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