Firehawk Rapamycin Target Eluting Coronary Stent North American Trial

NCT ID: NCT04562532

Last Updated: 2024-07-24

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1720 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-02-17

Study Completion Date

2027-06-30

Brief Summary

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The aim of the TARGET-IV NA trial is to demonstrate the clinical non-inferiority of the Firehawk® rapamycin eluting stent system in comparison to currently approved 2nd generation DES for the treatment of subjects with ischemic heart disease (NSTEMI, recent STEMI (\>24 hours from initial presentation and in whom enzyme levels have peaked), unstable angina, and stable coronary disease), with atherosclerotic target lesion(s) in coronary arteries with visually estimated reference vessel diameters ≥2.25 mm and ≤4.0 mm.

Detailed Description

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TARGET-IV NA trial is a prospective, multicenter, 1:1 randomized (Firehawk® vs. 2nd generation DES), trial.

Sub studies:

Angiographic sub study: The first approximately 200 consecutive consenting patients will be enrolled in the angiographic substudy. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) substudy: The first approximately 50 consecutive consenting subjects will be enrolled in the OCT substudy.

Clinical follow-up will be performed at 30 days, 6 months, and 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years post randomization. First approximately 200 consecutive consenting patients will undergo planned angiographic follow-up at 13 months after enrollment, with first 50 of these patients also consented to undergo planned OCT at baseline and at 13 months following randomization.

Conditions

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Coronary Artery Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Firehawk group

Participants implant Firehawk stent(s)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Microport Firehawk stent

Intervention Type DEVICE

MicroPort Firehawk biodegradable polymer rapamycin target eluting stent

2nd generation DES

Participants implant Everolimus eluting stents (Xience family - Abbott Vascular, Promus family- Boston Scientific, Synergy - Boston Scientific), or Zotarolimus eluting stents (Resolute/Onyx family and Endeavor- Medtronic), or Sirolimus eluting stents (Orsiro- Biotronik)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

2nd generation DES (XIENCE family, Promus family, Resolute/Onyx family/Endeavor, and Orsiro stent)

Intervention Type DEVICE

* Everolimus eluting stents (Xience family - Abbott Vascular, Promus family- Boston Scientific, Synergy - Boston Scientific)
* Zotarolimus eluting stents (Resolute/Onyx family and Endeavor- Medtronic)
* Sirolimus eluting stents (Orsiro- Biotronik)

Interventions

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Microport Firehawk stent

MicroPort Firehawk biodegradable polymer rapamycin target eluting stent

Intervention Type DEVICE

2nd generation DES (XIENCE family, Promus family, Resolute/Onyx family/Endeavor, and Orsiro stent)

* Everolimus eluting stents (Xience family - Abbott Vascular, Promus family- Boston Scientific, Synergy - Boston Scientific)
* Zotarolimus eluting stents (Resolute/Onyx family and Endeavor- Medtronic)
* Sirolimus eluting stents (Orsiro- Biotronik)

Intervention Type DEVICE

Other Intervention Names

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MicroPort Firehawk rapamycin target eluting stent

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age ≥ 18 years.
2. Patient understands the trial requirements and treatment procedures and provides written informed consent prior to any trial-specific tests or treatment.
3. Patients with an indication for PCI including angina (stable or unstable), silent ischemia (in absence of symptoms a visually estimated target lesion diameter stenosis of ≥70%, a positive non-invasive stress test, or a positive coronary physiology test (e.g. FFR≤0.80 or iFR\<0.90 or rFR ≤ 0.89 must be present), NSTEMI, or recent STEMI (STEMI \>24 hours and in whom enzyme levels have peaked). For STEMI the time of presentation to the first treating hospital, whether a transfer facility or the study hospital, must be \>24 hours prior to randomization and enzyme levels (CK-MB or Troponin) demonstrating that either or both enzyme levels have peaked.
4. Patient is willing to comply with all protocol-required follow-up evaluations.


1. Target lesion(s) must be located in a native coronary artery with visually estimated diameter of ≥2.25 mm to ≤4.0 mm and up to 44 mm in length.
2. The coronary anatomy is deemed likely to allow delivery of a study device to the target lesion(s).
3. Complex lesions are allowed including calcified lesions (lesion preparation is allowed and strongly recommended with current approved devices (e.g. scoring/cutting balloon and rotational/orbital atherectomy), multivessel disease, CTO,bifurcation lesions (except planned dual stent implantation), ostial lesions, tortuous lesions, and protected left main lesions.
4. Overlapping stents are allowed

Exclusion Criteria

1. STEMI within 24 hours of initial time of presentation to the first treating hospital, whether at a transfer facility or the study hospital or in whom enzyme levels (either CK-MB or Troponin) have not peaked.
2. PCI within the 24 hours preceding the baseline procedure.
3. History of stent thrombosis.
4. 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.
5. Subject is intubated.
6. Known LVEF \<30%.
7. Subject has a known allergy to contrast (that cannot be adequately pre-medicated) and/or the trial stent system or any protocol-required concomitant medications or devices (e.g. cobalt chromium alloy, stainless steel, sirolimus, everolimus or structurally related compounds, polymer, any P2Y12 inhibitor, or aspirin).
8. Planned surgery within 6 months.
9. Subject has an indication for chronic oral anticoagulant treatment (with either vitamin K antagonists or novel anticoagulants - NOACs)
10. Calculated creatinine clearance \<30 mL/min using Cockcroft-Gault equation (\<40 mL/min for subjects participating in the angiographic follow-up sub-study).
11. Hemoglobin \<10 g/dL.
12. Platelet count \<100,000 cells/mm3 or \>700,000 cells/mm3.
13. White blood cell (WBC) count \<3,000 cells/mm3.
14. Clinically significant liver disease.
15. Active peptic ulcer or active bleeding from any site.
16. Other serious medical illness with a life-expectancy \< 24 months (e.g. cancer, severe heart failure, severe lung disease).
17. A planned procedure that may cause non-compliance with the protocol or confound data interpretation.
18. Participation in another investigational drug or device trial that has not yet reached its primary endpoint and that may interfere with protocol compliance or confound data interpretation (as per the opinion of the investigator); or intent to participate in another investigational drug or device trial within 12 months.
19. Intention to become pregnant within 12 months (women of child-bearing potential who are sexually active must agree to use contraceptives from the time of enrollment through 12 months post-procedure).
20. Pregnancy or nursing (women of child-bearing potential must have a pregnancy test within 7 days prior to the index procedure).
21. Any co-morbid condition that may cause non-compliance with the protocol (e.g. dementia, substance abuse, etc.).
22. Subject has received an organ transplant or is on a waiting list for an organ transplant.
23. Subject is receiving oral or intravenous immunosuppressive therapy or has known life-limiting immunosuppressive or autoimmune disease (e.g., HIV). Corticosteroids are allowed.


1. Unprotected left main interventions
2. Bifurcation lesions with intended dual stent implantations
3. DES restenotic lesions
4. Prior PCI in the target vessel in the 12 months prior to enrollment
5. Any lesion in the target vessel that is likely to require PCI within 12 months
6. Stent lengths \>36mm for diameters 2.0 mm and 2.25 mm (i.e., very long thin stents).
7. Lesion with intended ≥ 3 stent implantation
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Shanghai MicroPort Medical (Group) Co., Ltd.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Martin Leon

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Columbia University

Locations

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Cardiology PC

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status

Mercy Gilbert Medical Center

Gilbert, Arizona, United States

Site Status

UC San Diego School of Medicine

La Jolla, California, United States

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Riverside Community Hospital

Riverside, California, United States

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Sharp Memorial Hospital

San Diego, California, United States

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Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Santa Barbara, California, United States

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Yale New Heaven Hospital

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

JFK Medical Center

Atlantis, Florida, United States

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CCC Research - Countryside

Clearwater, Florida, United States

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Clearwater Cardiovascular Consultants

Clearwater, Florida, United States

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Memorial Hospital Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

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Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Decatur, Georgia, United States

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Elkhart General Hospital

Elkhart, Indiana, United States

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St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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The University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

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Eastern Maine Medical Center-Northern Light Cardiology

Bangor, Maine, United States

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Brigham and Womens Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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St. Joseph Mercy Hospital

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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McLaren Bay

Bay City, Michigan, United States

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McLaren Greater Lansing

Lansing, Michigan, United States

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McLaren Northern Michigan

Petoskey, Michigan, United States

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Metropolitan Heart Vascular Institute

Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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St Dominic Hospital

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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Boone Hospital Center

Columbia, Missouri, United States

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Bryan Medical Center East

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

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Columbia University Medical Center/NYPH

New York, New York, United States

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St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center

Roslyn, New York, United States

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NC Heart and Vascular Research

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center LLC

Toledo, Ohio, United States

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Doylestown Hospital

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States

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UPMC Hamot

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

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UPMC Harrisburg Hospital

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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Rhode Island Hospital

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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AnMed Health

Anderson, South Carolina, United States

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Turkey Creek Medical Center

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

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Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital

Dallas, Texas, United States

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Texas Tech University Health

Lubbock, Texas, United States

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East Texas Medical Center

Tyler, Texas, United States

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Charleston Area Medical Center

Charleston, West Virginia, United States

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Mayo Clinic Health System

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

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Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital

Aalst, , Belgium

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University of Calgary- Foothills Medical Center

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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St. Boniface Hospital Inc.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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York PCI Group Inc

Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

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IUPQ

Québec, Qebec, Canada

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Montreal Heart Institute

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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CHUM

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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CIUSSE de l'estrie CHUS

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

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Aarhus University Hospital

Aarhus, , Denmark

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Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet

Copenhagen, , Denmark

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Odense University Hospital

Odense, , Denmark

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Roskilde University Hospital

Roskilde, , Denmark

Site Status

Radbout UMC

Nijmegen, , Netherlands

Site Status

Countries

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United States Belgium Canada Denmark Netherlands

References

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Yeh RW, Bertrand OF, Mahmud E, Barbato E, Falah B, Issever MO, Redfors B, Popma A, Curtis M, van Royen N, Tanguay JF, Janssens L, Newman WN, Teeuwen K, Choi JW, Dirksen MT, Maehara A, Leon MB. Randomized Comparison of Novel Low-Dose Sirolimus-Eluting Biodegradable Polymer Stent vs Second-Generation DES: TARGET-IV NA Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Feb 18;85(6):563-574. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.10.074. Epub 2024 Oct 30.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39480379 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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TARGET-IV_NA

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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