Could fewer stents mean better recovery after a heart attack?
NCT ID NCT06353594
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study compares a new approach using fewer stents and a drug-coated balloon to the standard method of placing stents in heart attack patients. About 1,272 participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two treatments. The goal is to see if the reduced-stent strategy lowers the risk of future heart problems.
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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 1,272 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2024
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2035
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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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: \- Patients presenting with STEMI and indication to undergo pPCI. Exclusion Criteria: * Life expectancy \<1 year due 1 to non-cardiac disease. * Inability to provide informed consent. * Cardiogenic shock. * Left ventricular ejection fraction \<15%. * Left main disease. * Stent thrombosis * Patients with prior bypass graft lesions requiring PCI (culprit or non culprit lesions). * Patients with chronic total occlusions. * Untreatable coronary disease. * Non-identified culprit lesion. * Known allergy to aspirin, ticagrelor, prasugrel, clopidogrel, paclitaxel or sirolimus.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
23 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña
RECRUITINGA Coruña, Spain
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Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela
RECRUITINGSantiago de Compostela, Spain
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Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia
RECRUITINGValencia, Spain
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Consorcio Hospitalario Provincial de Castellon
RECRUITINGCastelló, Spain
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Hospital Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa
RECRUITINGZaragoza, Spain
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Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid
RECRUITINGValladolid, Spain
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Hospital General Universitario de Elche
RECRUITINGElche, Spain
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Hospital Universitari Joan Xxiii de Tarragona
RECRUITINGTarragona, Spain
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Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
RECRUITINGL'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Clínico San Cecilio
RECRUITINGGranada, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Juan Ramón Jiménez
RECRUITINGHuelva, Huelva, Spain
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Hospital Universitario La Paz
RECRUITINGMadrid, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet
RECRUITINGZaragoza, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Mutua de Terrassa
RECRUITINGTerrassa, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda
RECRUITINGMadrid, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Regional de Malaga
RECRUITINGMálaga, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía de Córdoba
RECRUITINGCórdoba, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio
RECRUITINGSeville, Spain
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Hospital Universitario Y Politecnico La Fe
RECRUITINGValencia, Valencia, Spain
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Hospital Universitario de Burgos
RECRUITINGBurgos, Spain
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Hospital Universitario de La Princesa
RECRUITINGMadrid, Spain
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Hospital Universitario de Navarra
RECRUITINGPamplona, Spain
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Hospital de Mérida
RECRUITINGMérida, Spain
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