1-month vs 12-month DAPT for ACS Patients Who Underwent PCI Stratified by IVUS: IVUS-ACS and ULTIMATE-DAPT Trials
Coronary Artery Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Coronary Artery Disease
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Enrollment into the study will require meeting at least one of these clinical syndromes within 1 month.
- Unstable angina, defined as rest pain for 5-30 minutes or deteriorative exertional angina with either a) transient ST segment depression or elevation, or b) angiography showing a visually estimated diameter stenosis ≥90% or a ruptured plaque or thrombotic lesion
- Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), defined as positive troponin consistent with clinical syndrome.
- ST elevation MI (STEMI)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
- Stroke within 3 months or any permanent neurologic deficit, and prior intracranial bleed, or any intracranial disease such as aneurysm or fistula
- Previous coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- Any planned surgery within 90 days
- Any reason why any antiplatelet therapy might need to be discontinued within 12 months
- Severe chronic kidney disease defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 20 ml/min/1.73m^2
- Need for chronic oral anticoagulation (warfarin/coumadin or direct oral anticoagulants)
- Platelet count < 100,000 mm^3
- Contraindication to aspirin
- Contraindication to ticagrelor
- Liver cirrhosis
- Women of child-bearing potential
- Life expectancy < 1 year
- Any condition likely to interfere with study processes including medication compliance or follow-up visits (e.g. dementia, alcohol abuse, severe frailty, long distance to travel for follow-up visits, etc.)
Sites / Locations
- Nanjing First Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Active Comparator
Experimental
Active Comparator
IVUS-guidance
Angiography-guidance
SAPT group
DAPT group
In the IVUS-guided DES implantation group, optimal stent deployment criteria included: 1) the MLA in the stented segment is >5.0 mm^2, or 90% of the MLA at the distal reference segments; 2) plaque burden 5-mm proximal or distal to the stent edge is <55%; and 3) absence of >=Type B edge dissection. Further treatment will be required if any of those 3 criteria was not met.
In the Angiography-guided DES implantation group, stent diameter and length will be selected by visual estimation with a stent/artery ratio of 1.1:1.0. Post-dilation with a noncompliant balloon (balloon/stent diameter=1.0:1.0) inflated at >18 atm will be performed for all lesions. Angiographic success is defined as Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) grade 3, residual stenosis <20%, and the absence of >Type B dissection.
Ticagrelor + aspirin for 1 month followed by ticagrelor plus matching placebo for an additional 11 months.
Ticagrelor + aspirin for 12 month.