New stent aims to keep heart arteries open longer
NCT ID NCT06071702
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This early study tests a new stent that releases a drug to prevent artery re-narrowing in 30 people with coronary artery disease. The stent is placed during a routine procedure to prop open blocked heart vessels. Researchers will check if the artery stays open after 13 months and track any heart-related events.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Ridaforolimus
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this stent could offer a new option to keep coronary arteries open and reduce the need for repeat procedures in people with heart disease.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early, small study (30 people) that is currently suspended. The stent may not work as intended or could cause complications like blood clots or heart attacks.
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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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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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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18 years and older
- 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. Age ≥18 years. 2. Patient with an indication for PCI including NSTEMI (biomarkers have peaked or are falling), angina (stable or unstable), silent ischemia (in absence of symptoms a visually estimated target lesion diameter stenosis of ≥70%, a positive non-invasive stress test, or FFR ≤0.80, Pd/Pa≤0.91or iFR, RFR, DFR, DPR≤0.89 must be present). 3. Non-target vessel PCIs are allowed if performed \>30 days prior to index procedure. 4. Patient or legal guardian is willing and able to provide informed written consent and comply with follow-up visits and testing schedule. 5. Staged procedures are allowed as long as the IoNIR stent is implanted in the last procedure and at least 30 days have elapsed between the previous procedure and the IoNIR PCI. 6. A maximum of two vessels and up to two lesions may be treated (two lesions separated by up to 10mm that can be covered by a single stent are considered as one lesion). 7. Lesions requiring scoring/cutting and/or rotational/orbital atherectomy and/or intra-vascular lithotripsy are allowed. 8. Overlapping stents are allowed. 9. Target lesion must be in a major native coronary artery with visually estimated diameter of ≥2.5 mm to ≤4.0 mm and lesion length of up to 40 mm, and appropriate size IoNIR stents are available. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. ST Segment Elevation MI within past 30 days. 2. NSTEMI with biomarkers that have not peaked. 3. Significant valvular disease or planned valvular intervention. 4. PCI within the 30 days preceding the baseline procedure. 5. PCI in the target vessel within 12 months of the baseline procedure. 6. Planned staged procedures (coronary or valvular), where the study stent is implanted in the first stage. 7\. Brachytherapy in conjunction with the baseline procedure. 8. Known history of stent thrombosis. 9. Cardiogenic shock (defined as persistent hypotension (systolic blood pressure \<90 mm/Hg for more than 30 minutes) or requiring pressors or hemodynamic support, including IABP. 10\. Subject is intubated. 11. Known LVEF \<30%. 12. Contraindication to DAPT for 6 months in non-ACS patients and 12 months in ACS patients (including planned surgeries that cannot be delayed). 13\. Subject has an indication such as atrial fibrillation for oral anticoagulation/prolonged heparinization (i.e., use of coumadin/DOAC (NOAC) or prolonged enoxaparin/heparin therapy is not allowed). 14\. eGFR \<60 mL/min. 15. Hemoglobin \<10 g/dL. 16. Platelet count \<100,000 cells/mm3 or \>700,000 cells/mm3. 17. White blood cell (WBC) count \<3,000 cells/mm3. 18. Clinically significant liver disease. 19. Active peptic ulcer or active bleeding from any site. 20. Bleeding from any site within the previous 8 weeks requiring active medical or surgical attention. 21\. If femoral access is planned, significant peripheral arterial disease which precludes safe insertion of a 6F sheath. 22\. History of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy and patients that refuse blood transfusions. 23\. Cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic attack within the past 6 months, or any permanent neurologic defect attributed to CVA. 24\. Known allergy to the study stent components (cobalt, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, platinum, PDLG, PLC, or limus drugs (ridaforolimus, zotarolimus, tacrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus, or similar drugs or any other analogue or derivative or similar compounds). 25\. Known allergy to protocol-required concomitant medications such as aspirin, or P2Y12 inhibitors (clopidogrel, prasugrel, and ticagrelor), heparin and bivalirudin, or iodinated contrast allergy that cannot be adequately pre-medicated. 26\. Any co-morbid condition that may cause non-compliance with the protocol (e.g., dementia, substance abuse, etc.) or reduced life expectancy to \<24 months (e.g., cancer, severe heart failure, severe lung disease). 27\. Patient is participating in or plans to participate in any other investigational drug or device clinical trial that has not reached its primary endpoint. 28\. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. 29. Women who intend to become pregnant within 12 months after the baseline procedure (women of child-bearing potential who are sexually active must agree to use a reliable method of contraception from the time of screening through 12 months after the baseline procedure). 30\. Patient has received an organ transplant or is on a waiting list for an organ transplant. 31\. Patient is receiving or scheduled to receive chemotherapy within 30 days before or any time after the baseline procedure. 32\. Patient is receiving oral or intravenous immunosuppressive therapy or has known life-limiting immunosuppressive or autoimmune disease (e.g., HIV). Corticosteroids are allowed. 33\. Complex lesions including severely calcified lesions, presence of visible thrombus, chronic total occlusions, bifurcation lesions (side branch diameter ≥2.0 mm), tortuous lesions, restenotic lesions, left main lesions, ectasia, aneurysm and any bypass graft lesions. 34\. Another lesion in a target or non-target vessel (including all side branches) is present that requires or has a high probability of requiring PCI within 12 months after the baseline procedure. 35\. Ostial lesions within 3 mm of origin of LAD, LCx, lesions in the LM.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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St Francis Hospital Heart Center
Roslyn, New York, 11576, United States
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