Heart stent study reveals long-term narrowing risks after complex artery procedure
NCT ID NCT07473596
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This completed study looked at 294 patients who had a procedure to open a completely blocked heart artery (CTO PCI) with a drug-coated stent. Researchers wanted to know how often the stents narrowed again over at least three years and what factors increased that risk. The study used CT scans and sometimes invasive angiography to check the stents.
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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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294 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2023
- Finished
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Feb 2025
- 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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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- 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.
Study inclusion criteria were the following: * Successful CTO PCI with a drug-eluting stent * Primary procedure minimum of 3 years prior to study date Of the included patients, CTO stent patency surveillance imaging with CCTA was conducted according to the following criteria. Patients were consecutive and prospectively recruited. Surveillance imaging inclusion criteria * Surviving patients ≤ 80 years old at the time of surveillance imaging * Communication in Finnish, Swedish or English Exclusion Criteria: * Target lesion revascularisation or angiographically verified ISR after CTO PCI * Malignancy with ongoing diagnostics or poor prognosis * Considerable functional impairment in activities of daily living * Presence of a clinically significant psychiatric disorder * Ongoing alcohol or drug abuse * Presence of a memory disorder or other clinically significant cognitive impairment * Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) after CTO PCI * Estimated glomerular filtration rate ≤40 ml/min * invasive coronary angiography performed less than 6 months prior to the surveillance imaging date CCTA results were reviewed by the interventional cardiologists of the study and ICA was offered to patients with: 1. ISR or an inconclusive finding within the CTO stent. 2. Anginal symptoms with either ≥ 50 % stenosis or an inconclusive finding in any native coronary artery or within a non-CTO stent.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Helsinki University Central Hospital
Helsinki, Uusimaa, 00290, Finland
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