DEBSCAN-IVL. Drug Eluting Balloon or Drug Eluting Stent to Treat CAlcified Nodules After IntraVascular Lithotripsy.

NCT ID: NCT06657833

Last Updated: 2026-02-12

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-12-17

Study Completion Date

2027-10-30

Brief Summary

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International, investigator-driven, multicenter, open-label, prospective randomized controlled trial where patients with de novo lesions due to calcified nodules (CN) were randomized to drug eluting balloon (DEB) or drug eluting stents (DES).

Detailed Description

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Regardless some observational data of DEB performance in calcified lesions, there is a lack of data about the safety and efficacy in the setting of calcified nodules. However, a "leave-nothing-behind" PCI strategy is attractive in this scenario in which the probability of non-optimal stent expansion and apposition is higher, hypothesis is, that following optimal plaque modification with IVL, the utilization of a DEB is either non-inferior or possibly superior to DES in terms of late lumen loss and net luminal gain at 6 months follow up.

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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Drug Eluting Balloon (DEB)

Group Type OTHER

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting balloon

Intervention Type DEVICE

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting balloon

Drug Eluting Stent (DES)

Group Type OTHER

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting stent

Intervention Type DEVICE

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting stent

Interventions

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Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting balloon

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting balloon

Intervention Type DEVICE

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting stent

Percutaneous coronary intervention of a calcified nodule with intravascular lithotripsy followed by drug eluting stent

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients \>18 years admitted for stable coronary artery disease or acute coronary syndromes and indication for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and
* Severe coronary lesion with calcified nodule, confirmed with intracoronary imaging (optical coherence tomography or intravascular ultrasound) and;
* Lesion to treat in a vessel between 2.5 and 4 mm.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients must not meet any criteria

* Inability to provide oral and written informed consent or unwillingness to come back for systematic angiographic follow-up.
* Pregnant or breastfeeding patients.
* Cardiogenic Shock or Cardiac arrest at the moment of the index procedure.
* Impossibility to maintain double antiplatelet treatment during at least 1 month.
* Life expectancy \<1 year.
* Index lesion at left main stem.
* Aorto-ostial lesion.
* Target lesion previously treated with stents or DEB.
* High thrombus burden in the target lesion (TIMI thrombus scale≥3).
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Fundación EPIC

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Hospital Del Mar

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario de La Paz

Fuencarral-El Pardo, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario de Galdakao-Usansolo

Galdakao, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario de León

León, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Clínico San Carlos

Moncloa-Aravaca, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario de Navarra

Pamplona, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital General Universitario de Valencia

Valencia, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe

Valencia, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid

Valladolid, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario de Vigo

Vigo, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Spain

Central Contacts

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FUNDACION EPIC

Role: CONTACT

0034987225638

ALFONSO JURADO ROMAN, MD,PhD

Role: CONTACT

References

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Jurado-Román A, Gómez-Menchero A, Gonzalo N, et al. Plaque modification techniques to treat calcified coronary lesions. Position paper from the ACI-SEC. REC Interv Cardiol Engl Ed. Published online February 7, 2023:9672. doi:10.24875/RECICE.M22000345

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Morofuji T, Kuramitsu S, Shinozaki T, Jinnouchi H, Sonoda S, Domei T, Hyodo M, Shirai S, Ando K. Clinical impact of calcified nodule in patients with heavily calcified lesions requiring rotational atherectomy. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021 Jan 1;97(1):10-19. doi: 10.1002/ccd.28896. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32259392 (View on PubMed)

Lee T, Mintz GS, Matsumura M, Zhang W, Cao Y, Usui E, Kanaji Y, Murai T, Yonetsu T, Kakuta T, Maehara A. Prevalence, Predictors, and Clinical Presentation of a Calcified Nodule as Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 Aug;10(8):883-891. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2017.05.013.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28797410 (View on PubMed)

Sato T, Matsumura M, Yamamoto K, Shlofmitz E, Moses JW, Khalique OK, Thomas SV, Tsoulios A, Cohen DJ, Mintz GS, Shlofmitz RA, Jeremias A, Ali ZA, Maehara A. Impact of Eruptive vs Noneruptive Calcified Nodule Morphology on Acute and Long-Term Outcomes After Stenting. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 May 8;16(9):1024-1035. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2023.03.009.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 37164599 (View on PubMed)

Ali ZA, Nef H, Escaned J, Werner N, Banning AP, Hill JM, De Bruyne B, Montorfano M, Lefevre T, Stone GW, Crowley A, Matsumura M, Maehara A, Lansky AJ, Fajadet J, Di Mario C. Safety and Effectiveness of Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy for Treatment of Severely Calcified Coronary Stenoses: The Disrupt CAD II Study. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Oct;12(10):e008434. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.119.008434. Epub 2019 Sep 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31553205 (View on PubMed)

Ho HH, Lee JH, Khoo DZL, Hpone KKS, Li KFC. Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy and drug-coated balloon angioplasty in calcified coronary arteries: preliminary experience in two cases. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2021 Aug 28;18(8):689-691. doi: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2021.08.009. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34527034 (View on PubMed)

Iwasaki Y, Koike J, Ko T, Funatsu A, Kobayashi T, Ikeda T, Nakamura S. Comparison of drug-eluting stents vs. drug-coated balloon after rotational atherectomy for severely calcified lesions of nonsmall vessels. Heart Vessels. 2021 Feb;36(2):189-199. doi: 10.1007/s00380-020-01684-z. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32857188 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EPIC40-DEBSCAN-IVL

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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