OPTIMIZE PCI: Multicenter Randomized Trial of OCT Compared to IVUS and Angiography to Guide Coronary Stent Implantation (ILUMIEN III)
Coronary Artery Disease

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Coronary Artery Disease focused on measuring Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Intravascular Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, SJM-CIP-10034
Eligibility Criteria
General Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 years.
Patient with an indication for PCI including:
- Angina (stable or unstable),
- Silent ischemia (a visually estimated target lesion diameter stenosis of ≥70%, a positive non-invasive stress test, or FFR ≤0.80 must be present),
- NSTEMI, or
- Recent STEMI (>24 hours from initial presentation and stable).
- Patients will undergo cardiac catheterization and possible or definite PCI with intent to stent using any non-investigational metallic drug-eluting stent (DES)
- Signed written informed consent
Angiographic inclusion criteria:
- The target lesion must be located in a native coronary artery with visually estimated reference vessel diameter of ≥2.25 mm to ≤3.50 mm.
- Lesion length <40mm
General Exclusion Criteria:
- Estimated creatinine clearance <30 ml/min using Cockcroft-Gault equation, unless the patient is on dialysis
- STEMI within 24 hours of initial time of presentation to the first treating hospital, whether at a transfer facility or the study hospital.
- PCI within 24 hours preceding the study procedure.
- PCI of a lesion within the target vessel within 12 months prior to the study procedure
- Planned use of bare metal stent (BMS)
- Planned use of bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS)
- 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, at time of procedure.
- Mobitz II second degree or complete heart block
- Malignant ventricular arrhythmias requiring treatment
- Pulmonary edema defined as patient with shortness of breath, evidence of volume overload on physical exam, and crepitations on physical exam (>1/3 of lungs) or radiographic interstitial or alveolar pulmonary edema
- Subject is intubated.
- Known LVEF <30%.
- Severe valvular disease (e.g. severe mitral regurgitation or severe aortic stenosis)
- Cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic attack within the past 6 months, or any permanent neurologic defect attributed to CVA.
- Presence of one or more co-morbidities which reduces life expectancy to less than 12 months or may interfere with protocol study processes.
- Known allergy to protocol-required concomitant medications including aspirin; clopidogrel, prasugrel, and ticagrelor; heparin and bivalirudin; or iodinated contrast that cannot be adequately pre-medicated.
- Patient is participating in any other investigational drug or device clinical trial that has not reached its primary endpoint.
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding (women of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within one week before treatment).
Angiographic Exclusion Criteria:
- The presence of any non-study lesion in the target vessel with angiographic diameter stenosis >50%, or any additional target vessel stenosis which requires PCI either during or within 12 months after the study procedure
- Left main diameter stenosis ≥30% or left main PCI planned.
- Study target lesion in a bypass graft
- Ostial RCA study target lesion
- Chronic total occlusion (TIMI flow 0/1) study target lesion
- Bifurcation study lesion with a planned dual stent strategy
- In-stent restenosis study target lesion
- Any study lesion characteristic resulting in the expected inability to deliver the IVUS or OCT catheter to the lesion pre and post PCI (e.g. moderate or severe vessel calcification or tortuosity)
Sites / Locations
- University Hospital - Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
- Scottsdale Healthcare Shea
- University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center
- Heart Institute of Colorado
- Orlando Health
- Emory University Hospital
- Kansas University Medical Center
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- St. Francis Hospital
- Eastern Cardiology
- INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center
- St. Charles Medical Center
- Austin Heart
- Memorial Hermann Hospital
- The University of Texas Health Science at San Antonio
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis Campus Aalst
- Klinikum der Justus-Liebig-Universität
- Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII
- Centro Cardiologico Monzino
- Kobe University Hospital
- Nara Medical University Hospital
- Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital
- Wakayama Medical University Hospital
- Yamaguchi University Hospital
- Erasmus MC - Thoraxcenter
- Hospital Universitario de la Princesa
- Kings College Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Coronary PCI guided by IVUS
Coronary PCI guided by OCT
Coronary PCI guided by Angiography
Intervention = Coronary stenting with planned drug eluting stent (DES). Stenting will be performed with IVUS guidance according to local standard practice. IVUS imaging is required pre and post stent implantation. At the end of the procedure, a final IVUS imaging run must be performed. After the final IVUS run, a blinded OCT imaging run shall be performed to document final stent dimensions and results.
Intervention = Coronary stenting with planned drug eluting stent (DES). Stenting will be performed with OCT guidance according to the algorithm described in the protocol. OCT imaging is required pre and post stent implantation. At the end of the procedure, a final OCT imaging run must be performed.
Intervention = Coronary stenting with planned drug eluting stent (DES). Stenting will be performed with angiography guidance according to local standard practice. At the end of the procedure, a blinded OCT shall be performed to document final stent dimensions and results.