OCT Versus Angiography for Culprit Lesion Revascularization in Acute Myocardial Infarction PatiEnts

NCT ID: NCT06227754

Last Updated: 2025-09-09

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-03-25

Study Completion Date

2029-12-31

Brief Summary

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The aim of the study is to compare clinical outcomes between optical coherence tomography-guided versus angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Detailed Description

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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a standard treatment for significantly stenotic lesion of coronary arteries, especially in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) where timely reperfusion is important. Traditionally, visual assessment by coronary angiography has been the main tool to identify coronary artery disease and guide revascularization. However, it is known that angiography alone is unable to adequately evaluate significance of stenotic lesion or optimization status of the stent, and that angiography suffers from high intra- and interobserver variability. Thus, methods for intracoronary imaging and/or physiology have been developed to aid these limitations.

During the PCI procedure, intravascular imaging devices such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are useful tools for providing information on lesion characteristics and optimal stent implantation with regard to appropriate reference segment, stent expansion, stent apposition, and possible acute complications. Therefore, intravascular imaging guidance may improve clinical outcomes after complex PCI. However, although previous randomized controlled trial and registries showed significantly lower rates of major adverse clinical events following IVUS-guided PCI compared with angiography-guided PCI, the randomized controlled trials were limited with small sample size and dealt with very selected lesion subsets such as chronic total occlusion (CTO) or long lesions. Moreover, although some studies observed similar clinical outcomes between IVUS-guided PCI and OCT-guided PCI, it is uncertain whether OCT-guided PCI improves clinical outcomes compared with angiography-guided PCI.

Currently, randomized controlled trial to support beneficial impact of OCT-guided PCI, especially in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is lacking. One randomized clinical trial in 2016 with 240 non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients have reported higher postprocedural fractional flow reserve and similar incidence of major adverse cardiac events with the use of OCT compared to angiography alone, but this study mostly focused on immediate physiologic findings of OCT-guided PCI and only demonstrated clinical outcomes on short-term follow-up. Although the ILUMIEN IV trial evaluated efficacy of OCT-guided PCI among high risk patients including lesions were considered to be responsible for a recent myocardial infarction, there was no apparent difference in the target-vessel failure at 2 years. There is no randomized controlled trial that can provide information on its long-term clinical impact, and current clinical guidelines puts OCT on Class 2a recommendation as an alternative for IVUS, with the exception of ostial left main disease.

In this regard, randomized controlled trial comparing clinical outcome following PCI in patients with AMI where procedural optimization is performed under OCT-guidance or angiography alone would provide valuable evidence to enhance prognosis after treatment of AMI. Therefore, FRAME-AMI 3 trial has been designed to compare clinical outcomes after PCI for infarct-related artery using either OCT-guided or angiography-guided strategy.

Conditions

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ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Myocardial Infarction

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Prospective, multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial to compare clinical outcomes between optical coherence tomography (OCT)-guided versus angiography-guided PCI in AMI patients undergoing PCI.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Angiography-guided PCI

The PCI procedure in this group will be performed as standard procedure.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Angiography-guided PCI group

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

The PCI procedure in this group will be performed as standard procedure. After deployment of stent, stent optimization will be done based on angiographic findings. The optimization guided by angiography should meet the criteria of angiographic residual diameter stenosis less than 10% by visual estimation and the absence of flow limiting dissection (≥Type C dissection). When angiographic under-expansion of the stent is suspected, adjunctive balloon dilatation will be strongly recommended.

Optical coherence tomography-guided PCI

Use of OCT will be allowed at any step of PCI (pre-PCI, during PCI and post-PCI), but OCT after stent implantation will be mandatory. In this group, the recommendations for selecting reference segment, selecting appropriate size of stent, and stent optimization are as follows. OPTIS imaging catheter (Abbott Vascular) will be used for the imaging arm according to MLD MAX algorithm.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Optical coherence tomography-guided PCI group

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

\[Stent Optimization\]

1. Stent Expansion:

Visually assess residual angiographic diameter stenosis \<10% "AND"

① In non-LM lesions: In-stent minimal lumen area (MSA) \>80% of the average reference lumen area "OR" \>4.5 mm2

② In LM lesion: MSA\>7 mm2 for distal LM and \>8 mm2 for proximal LM
2. Stent Apposition:

No major malapposition (defined as a distance from stent strut to adjacent intima ≥400 um and \< 1mm length) of the stent over its entire length against the vessel wall
3. Edge Dissection:

No major edge dissection in the proximal or distal reference segments, defined as 5 mm from the edge of the stent, extended to media layer with potential to provoke flow disturbances (defined as \>60° of the circumference of the vessel at site of dissection and/or \>2 mm in length of dissection flap)

Interventions

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Angiography-guided PCI group

The PCI procedure in this group will be performed as standard procedure. After deployment of stent, stent optimization will be done based on angiographic findings. The optimization guided by angiography should meet the criteria of angiographic residual diameter stenosis less than 10% by visual estimation and the absence of flow limiting dissection (≥Type C dissection). When angiographic under-expansion of the stent is suspected, adjunctive balloon dilatation will be strongly recommended.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Optical coherence tomography-guided PCI group

\[Stent Optimization\]

1. Stent Expansion:

Visually assess residual angiographic diameter stenosis \<10% "AND"

① In non-LM lesions: In-stent minimal lumen area (MSA) \>80% of the average reference lumen area "OR" \>4.5 mm2

② In LM lesion: MSA\>7 mm2 for distal LM and \>8 mm2 for proximal LM
2. Stent Apposition:

No major malapposition (defined as a distance from stent strut to adjacent intima ≥400 um and \< 1mm length) of the stent over its entire length against the vessel wall
3. Edge Dissection:

No major edge dissection in the proximal or distal reference segments, defined as 5 mm from the edge of the stent, extended to media layer with potential to provoke flow disturbances (defined as \>60° of the circumference of the vessel at site of dissection and/or \>2 mm in length of dissection flap)

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Subject must be at least 19 years of age
* Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

\*STEMI: ST-segment elevation ≥0.1 mV in ≥2 contiguous leads or documented newly developed left bundle-branch block1
* Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in \< 12 h after the onset of symptoms for STEMI patients
* Subject is able to verbally confirm understandings of risks, benefits and treatment alternatives of receiving invasive physiologic evaluation and PCI and he/she or his/her legally authorized representative provides written informed consent prior to any study related procedure.

Exclusion Criteria

* Target lesions not amenable for PCI by operators' decision
* Ostial lesions located in left main vessel or right coronary artery (left main body or distal bifurcation lesions can be enrolled by operator's discretion)
* Creatinine clearance ≤30 ml/min/1.73 m2 and not on dialysis (chronic dialysis dependent patients are eligible for enrolment regardless of creatinine clearance)
* Cardiogenic shock (Killip class IV) at presentation
* Intolerance to Aspirin, Clopidogrel, Prasugrel, Ticagrelor, Heparin, or Everolimus
* Known true anaphylaxis to contrast medium (not allergic reaction but anaphylactic shock)
* Pregnancy or breast feeding
* Non-cardiac co-morbid conditions are present with life expectancy \<2 year or that may result in protocol non-compliance (per site investigator's medical judgment)
* Unwillingness or inability to comply with the procedures described in this protocol
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Samsung Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Chonnam National University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Young Joon Hong

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Young Joon Hong, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Chonnam National University

Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Samsung Medical Center

Locations

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Dong-A University College of Medicine

Busan, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Kosin University Gospel Hospital

Busan, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Kyungpook National University Hospital

Daegu, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Yeungnam University Medical Center

Daegu, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Daegu Catholic University Medical Center

Daegu, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Chonnam National University

Gwangju, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Wonkwang University Hospital

Iksan, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

International St. Mary's Hospital

Incheon, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Jeju National University Hospital

Jeju City, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Jeonbuk National University Hospital

Jeonju, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Gyeongsang National University Hospital

Jinju, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Kyung Hee University Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Kangbuk Samsung Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Samsung Medical Center

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Chung-Ang University Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Korea University Guro Hospital

Seoul, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Carollo Hospital

Suncheon, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Uijeongbu St Mary's Hospital

Uijeongbu-si, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Ulsan University Hospital

Ulsan, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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South Korea

Central Contacts

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Seung Hun Lee, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

82-2-220-6246

Young Joon Hong, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

82-2-220-5778

Facility Contacts

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Kyungil Park, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Jung Ho Heo, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Nam Kyun Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Ung Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Jin Bae Lee, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Young Joon Hong, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Seung Hun Lee, MD, PhD

Role: backup

Donghyeon Joo, MD

Role: primary

Hyung-Bok Park, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Song-Yi Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Yi Sik Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Jin-Sin Koh, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Weon Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Jong-Young Lee, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Joo Myung Lee, MD, MPH, PhD

Role: backup

Wang Soo Lee, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Sanghoon Shin, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Sodam Jung, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Dong Oh Kang, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Jang Hyun Cho, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Chan Joon Kim, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Eun Seok Shin, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

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FRAMEAMI220716

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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