Heart stent breakthrough: cameras inside arteries could save thousands
NCT ID NCT07114393
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aims to see if using tiny cameras inside the heart's arteries during stent placement leads to better outcomes for people with complex coronary artery disease. About 11,000 adults in the Netherlands who need a stent for severe blockages will be included. The goal is to make this imaging technique the standard of care to reduce future heart attacks, repeat procedures, and death.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 11,092 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Expected to finish
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May 2027
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.
Who is studied
The population exists of patients registered in our national PCI registration of the Netherlands Heart Registration after receiving complex PCI. All indications are included (ACS and non-ACS, OHCA, cardiogenic shock).
- 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: * All patients above the age of 18, included in the Netherlands Heart Registration (NHR) quality database after receiving PCI in complex coronary lesions, will be included in the analyses of this project. * Meeting one or more of the following complexity criteria: * Left main: A stenosis of \>50% and/or a FFR ≤ 0.80 and iFR ≤ 0.89 in the left main. * Severely calcified lesion: Defined as use of calcium modification therapy (e.g. cutting balloon, scoring balloon, rotablation, orbital atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy). * Chronic total occlusion: Coronary CTO is defined as an obstruction of the coronary artery with the following classic lesion characteristics: * TIMI flow 0 * Absence of contrast stasis at the site of the proximal capillaries * Presence of collateral vessels * Estimated occlusion duration of at least 3 months. * Ostial lesion: Lesion at the origin (within 5 mm) of a major coronary vessel (LM, LAD, RCX and RCA). * Long lesion: A vessel treated with one or multiple stents with a total stent length of ≥38 mm is considered a long lesion. * Bifurcation (true): A coronary artery narrowing occurring adjacent to, and/or involving, the origin of a significant side branch ≥ 2.5mm. Only true bifurcation will be included, i.e. medina 1,1,1/1,0,1/0,1,1. * In-stent restenosis: A reduction ≥50% of the luminal diameter within the previously stented segment or the vessel segments 5 mm proximal and distal to the stent (the "stent edges"), as assessed by coronary angiography. Exclusion Criteria: \- Non complex PCI
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Catharina hospital Eindhoven
RECRUITINGEindhoven, North Brabant, 5623EJ, Netherlands
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