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IVUS-guided DES Implantation in Coronary Calcification

Intravascular Ultrasound Versus Angiography Guided Drug-eluting Stent Implantation for Patients With Coronary Severe Calcification: a Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05800002
Acronym
ULTIMATE IV
Enrollment
864
Registered
2023-04-05
Start date
2023-04-07
Completion date
2033-03-30
Last updated
2024-11-15

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

Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease

Brief summary

Coronary calcified lesion is associated with a poor clinical outcome. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) provides anatomic information in detail about reference vessel dimensions and lesion characteristics including severity of diameter stenosis, lesion length, and morphology. Both randomized and observational studies have reported the clinical benefits of IVUS guidance for patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO), long lesions, acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with complex bifurcation lesions. Our previous ULTIMATE trial has demonstrated that IVUS-guided drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation significantly improved clinical outcome in all-comers, particularly for patients who had an IVUS-defined optimal procedure, compared with angiography guidance. However, the benefit of IVUS guidance in coronary severe calcification still remains unknown in the modern DES era.

Interventions

Pretreatment strategy, stent size, stent landing zone and post-dilation balloon size are depended on intravascular ultrasound.

PROCEDUREAngiography

Pretreatment strategy, stent size, stent landing zone and post-dilation balloon size are depended on angiography.

Sponsors

Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

1. Silent ischemia, stable or unstable angina, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction \> 48 hours, or ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction \> 7 days; 2. De novo coronary lesion eligible for drug-eluting stent implantation; 3. Target lesion with severe calcification;

Exclusion criteria

1. Age less than 18-year-old; 2. Comorbidity with a life expectancy \<12 months; 3. Intolerant of antithrombotic therapy; 4. Significant anemia, thrombocytopenia, or leucopenia; 5. History of major hemorrhage (intracranial, gastrointestinal, and so on); 6. Chronic total occlusion lesion not recanalized; 7. Scheduled major surgery in the next 12 months; 8. Left ventricular ejection fraction \< 25%; 9. Uremia dependent on dialysis treatment; 10. Previous drug-eluting stent implantation in target vessel;

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
the rate of target-vessel failure at 12 months12 months after indexed procedurethe composite of cardiovascular death, target-vessel myocardial infarction, and clinically driven target-vessel revascularization

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactJun-Jie Zhang, MD
jameszll@163.com025-52271350

Outcome results

None listed

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