Ticagrelor Monotherapy After Stenting

NCT ID: NCT05149560

Last Updated: 2025-06-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-12-04
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

A pilot study planned to evaluate initial safety of ticagrelor monotherapy after coronary stenting due to acute myocardial infarction.

The study is a single-centre, single-arm, prospective phase II study 200 patients who undergo coronary artery stenting due to NSTEMI or STEMI will be included.

Primary endpoint (variable):

The composite of cardiac death, spontaneous myocardial infarction or definite or probable stent thrombosis within 3 months.

Detailed Description

A pilot study with 200 subjects undergoing coronary stenting due to NSTEMI or STEMI.

All patients will undergo invasive coronary angiography and clinically indicated Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). PCI will be performed using EES and OCT guidance using the MLDMAX algorithm (Morphology, Length, Diameter, Medial dissection, Apposition, Xpansion). Eligibility criteria will be assessed after completion of PCI.

Patients will be given a drug diary to document and as a reminder of the twice daily ticagrelor administration.

The Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) will continuously review the outcomes for these patients. After the first 50 patients have been recruited and at least 30 of these patients have reached 3-month follow-up or had the primary outcome, the DSMB will convene to decide whether it is safe to proceed with the study. However, the DSMB will strongly consider early termination of the trial if more than 10 primary endpoint events occur.

Patients may be treated with aspirin prior to coronary angiography, as per local treatment guidelines. All patients will be followed for 1 year. After one year, all patients will be treated per the discretion of the treating physician.

Conditions

Acute Myocardial Infarction

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Ticagrelor

Ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily for 12 months

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Ticagrelor 90mg

Intervention Type: DRUG

All patients will be prescribed ticagrelor as monotherapy

Interventions

Ticagrelor 90mg

All patients will be prescribed ticagrelor as monotherapy

Intervention Type: DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Men or women at least 18 years old.

2. Pre- or intra-procedure treatment with ticagrelor.

3. Coronary stenting with an everolimus-eluting stent (EES) due to NSTEMI or STEMI, with post-procedure diameter stenosis <50% and post-procedure Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarcton (TIMI) flow grade 3.

4. PCI guided by optical coherence tomography (OCT) with MLDMAX workflow

5. Subject has not yet received any post-procedure dose of aspirin or any post-procedure dose of a different P2Y12 inhibitor than ticagrelor (loading dose or pre-PCI maintenance dose of aspirin and/or a different P2Y12 inhibitor is allowed)

6. Subject has signed and dated the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Planned PCI or any planned surgical intervention within the next 6 months.

2. Any indication for chronic anticoagulant therapy

3. Positive COVID-19 antigen or PCR test regardless of symptoms

4. History of definite stent thrombosis

5. Left main coronary artery stenting.

6. Stent thrombosis/restenosis as a culprit lesion.

7. Visible thrombus on angiography after PCI

8. Usage of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors

9. Any bifurcation lesion with stenting of both branches.

10. Any treated lesion within an arterial or venous graft.

11. Any additional lesion(s) that need(s) a staged revascularization.

12. Known ejection fraction <30%.

13. Known severe renal insufficiency (eGFR <30 ml/min/1.72 m2).

14. Any life-threatening conditions or medical comorbidity resulting in life expectancy < 12 months.

15. Participation in any investigational study that has not yet reached its primary endpoint, and for which monotherapy with ticagrelor may affect the primary outcome (as per the judgement of the investigator).

16. Patients who medicate with a potent CYP3A4 inhibitor (e.g. ketoconazole, clarithromycin, nefazodone, ritonavir and atazanavir)

17. Pregnancy or woman of childbearing potential who is not sterilized or using a medically accepted form of contraception.

18. Expected inability (by the investigator) to comply with the protocol

19. Subjects incapable to giving consent personally

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Sahlgrenska University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Vastra Gotaland Region

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Oskar Angerås, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhus

Locations

Kardiologen

Gothenburg, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

Other Identifiers

EudraCT number: 2021-000823-11

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id