'MInimalist' or 'MOre Complete' Strategies for Revascularization in Octogenarians
Multi Vessel Coronary Artery Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Acute Coronary Syndrome
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Multi Vessel Coronary Artery Disease focused on measuring ischemic heart disease, multivessel, octogenarians, acute coronary syndrome
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥80 years
Non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes, defined as per guidelines:
- Ischaemic chest pain or equivalent AND either
- Electrocardiography with persistent or transient ST-depression and/or T-wave inversion OR
- Biomarker positive for myocardial necrosis
- Multi-vessel coronary artery disease, defined as the presence of an angiographic >90% diameter or FFR-(<0.81) or iFR-(<0.90) positive stenoses(29) in a non-culprit vessel of reference diameter ≥2.5mm.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to give written informed consent
- Resuscitation from cardiac arrest
- Life expectancy <12 months
- Cardiogenic shock
- Ventricular arrhythmias refractory to treatment at the time of randomization
- Coronary artery disease not amenable to PCI
- Heart Team decision for coronary bypass surgery
- Type 2 myocardial infarction(30) or alternative diagnoses such as tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, as defined by the operator in light of the clinical picture at presentation
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <20mL/min/m2 (by Cockcroft-Gault formula)
- Documented anaphylaxis induced by iodinated contrast media
- Documented allergies to either aspirin, clopidogrel, ticagrelor or oral anticoagulants
Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, contraindicates anticoagulant therapy or would have an unacceptable risk of bleeding, such as, but not limited to, the following:
- Active internal bleeding
- Bleeding diastheses precluding treatment with dual antiplatelet therapy and/or oral anticoagulation
- Platelet count <90,000/μL at screening
- Previous intracranial haemorrhage
- Clinically significant gastrointestinal bleeding within 12 months before randomization
- Known significant liver disease (e.g. acute hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis), or liver function test (LFT) abnormalities at screening (confirmed with repeat testing): alanine transaminase (ALT) >5 times the upper limit of normal or ALT >3 times the upper limit of normal plus total bilirubin >2 times the upper limit of normal
- Major surgery, biopsy of a parenchymal organ, or serious trauma (including head trauma) within the past 30 days
- Any active non-cutaneous malignancy
Sites / Locations
- Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Minimalist
More complete
The 'Minimalist' strategy is PCI treatment of the culprit lesion only. Other coronary stenoses are to be managed medically. It is recognized that there may be multiple culprit lesions in such patients, though there are no data on how frequently this might be expected. Operators may elect to treat multiple putative culprit lesions in this case.
The 'More complete' strategy is PCI of the culprit lesion and fractional flow reserve (FFR)- or instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR)-guided treatment of other angiographically significant (> 50% diameter) stenoses amenable to coronary stenting in vessels with reference diameters ≥2.5mm. Physiological assessment is strongly encouraged but not mandatory for lesions of ≥90% angiographic stenosis. PCI of chronic total occlusions will not be attempted as part of the study.