Double vision for heart stents: could two scans beat one?
NCT ID NCT05333068
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study compares two strategies for placing stents in people with multiple blocked heart arteries. One group gets standard guidance using a pressure wire (FFR), while the other also uses an imaging catheter (OCT) to spot unstable plaques. The goal is to see if the combined approach reduces deaths, heart attacks, and the need for more procedures over two years. About 1,200 adults aged 30-80 with at least two blockages are taking part.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- PCI revascularization strategy based on combined FFR and OCT assessment
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could become a new standard for treating multiple blocked arteries, potentially lowering the risk of heart attacks and the need for repeat procedures.
- What could go wrong
- This is a large but still early-stage comparison; the combined strategy may not prove significantly better than standard care, and the added imaging could increase procedure time or cost without clear benefit.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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1,223 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2022
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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30 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients undergoing PCI, aged 30-80 years with any clinical presentation 2. Angiographic criteria: presence of ≥ 2 de novo target lesions\* located in 2 different native coronary arteries feasible for treatment with PCI (operator / Heart team decision) Angiographic criteria target lesion\* (all criteria I-IV should be applicable): I. DS ≥ 50% on visual estimation II. de novo lesion located in native (non-grafted) vessel III. lesion reference diameter of ≥ 2.0 mm IV. Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 3 flow in all vessels (with exclusion of culprit lesions if MI at presentation) \*Target lesions are either culprit MI lesions or lesions where FFR will be performed. Patients are eligible if they have ≥ 2 target lesions or one culprit and ≥ 1 target lesion. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with MVD requiring coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) treatment (operator / local heart team decision) 2. Lesion located in a grafted segment or in a vein graft 3. In-stent restenosis lesions 4. Left main trifurcation 5. Left main lesion stand-alone (without other lesions) 6. Patients with severe tortuous lesions (where FFR and OCT is judged impossible or dangerous) 7. Chronic total occlusion 8. Spontaneous coronary dissection 9. Patients with severe valvular heart disease likely to require cardiac surgery within the next 2 years 10. Patients with left ventricle (LV) function less than 30% 11. Renal insufficiency (Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) \< 29 ml/min/1.73m2; Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) stage 4 and 5) 12. Life expectancy less than 3 years
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark
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Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Dordrecht, Netherlands
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Apex Heart Institute
Ahmedabad, India
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Apollo Hospitals
Bangalore, India
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C.C. Iliescu Institute of Cardiology Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
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Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille
Lille, France
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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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Cheng Hsin General Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan
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Clinic Hospital Targu Mures & S.C. Cardio Med SRL
Târgu Mureş, Romania
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Clinique Louis Pasteur
Nancy, France
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Danderyd Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
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Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital
Tilburg, Netherlands
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Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Hamilton Health Sciences
Hamilton, Canada
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Hospital Bellvitge Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
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Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
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Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
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Hospital Gregorio Marañón Madrid
Madrid, Spain
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Hospital La Fe Valencia
Valencia, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
Madrid, Spain
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Hospital de La Princesa
Madrid, Spain
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Humanitas Research Hospital
Milan, Italy
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Jagiellonian University; John Paul II Hospital
Krakow, Poland
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Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden
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Lund University
Lund, Sweden
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Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
Santander, Spain
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McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Canada
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Medical University of Silesia
Katowice, Poland
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Medisch Spectrum Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
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Middle Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
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Miedziowe Centrum Zdrowia
Lubin, Poland
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Monash Medical
Clayton, Australia
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National Heart Institute
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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National Taiwan University Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan
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National University Corporation Institute of Science Tokyo
Bunkyō City, Japan
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Niagara Health System - St. Catherines Site
Saint Catharines, Canada
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Nicolae Stăncioiu Heart Institute
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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North-Estonia Medical Centre
Tallinn, Estonia
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OLVG
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Policlinico Universitario Fondazione Agostino Gemelli
Rome, Italy
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Post Graduate Institute of Medical education and Research
Chandigarh, India
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Regional Specialist Hospital
Wroclaw, Poland
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Universitetssjukhuset Örebro
Örebro, Sweden
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University Hospital Krakow
Krakow, Poland
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University Hospital La Paz
Madrid, Spain
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Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
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Warsaw Medical University
Warsaw, Poland
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Wellington Hospital
Wellington, New Zealand
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Yokohama City University Medical Center
Yokohama, Japan
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