The Impact of Optical Coherence Tomography on the Endovascular Treatment Planning of Femoropopliteal Disease

Recruiting

• Conditions: Femoropopliteal Stenosis
• Interventions: Device: Optical coherence tomography measurements

• Registration Number: NCT05057637
• Lead Sponsor: Rijnstate Hospital

Brief Summary

Rationale: Peripheral arterial disease is a severe clinical problem with an increasing prevalence, due to an ageing population. Endovascular treatment, usually using stents, is recommended for most lesions in the femoropopliteal tract. The patency of these stents is influenced by several factors, including stent sizing and stent positioning.

Current procedural planning of femoropopliteal disease is primarily based on single-plane digital subtraction angiographies (DSA). This modality provides a 2-dimensional image of the vessel lumen, which may be suboptimal for stent sizing. It can therefore be difficult to choose the optimal stent position as minor lesions may be missed. Suboptimal treatment could result in unfavourable levels of wall shear stress causing the vessel wall to be more susceptible to neo-intimal hyperplasia ultimately causing restenosis and stent failure. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) is able to visualize the arterial wall with a micrometer resolution, which could result in better stent sizing. Furthermore, OCT is able to visualize different layers in the vessel wall and identify unhealthy areas, which may lead to a more optimal stent placement as unhealthy areas can be covered completely. Moreover, OCT provides detailed patient-specific geometries necessary to develop reliable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models that simulate blood flow in stented arteries and calculate wall shear stresses, which could predict stent patency.

Objective: To investigate in a clinical study how often the use of intravascular optical coherence tomography for femoropopliteal stenotic lesions leads to alterations in treatment planning before and after stent placement, in comparison to traditional digital subtraction angiography-based treatment planning.

Study design: Exploratory observational study. Study population: 25 patients with femoropopliteal stenotic lesions who are treated with a Supera interwoven nitinol stent or Absolute nitinol stent.

Main study parameters/endpoints: The percentage of procedures in which OCT changed the DSA-based treatment planning before and after stent placement to investigate the impact of OCT imaging on treatment planning.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-15
• Study First Posted: 2021-09-27
• Study Start: 2022-03-09
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-07
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-09
• Primary Completion: 2025-05
• Study Completion: 2025-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 18 years of older
• Written informed consent
• Scheduled endovascular treatment of femoropopliteal stenotic lesions with a Supera interwoven nitinol stent or Absolute nitinol stent
• Clinically and hemodynamically stable

Exclusion Criteria

• Occluded superficial femoral artery or popliteal artery
• Superficial femoral artery and/or popliteal artery diameter larger than 6.5 mm
• Severely impaired renal function (eGFR < 30 ml/min), end stage renal disease
• Cardiac insufficiency (NYHA 3-4)
• Hypersensitivity to iodinated contrast media
• BMI > 25 and contralateral approach not possible
• Minimal lumen diameter of target lesion < 1.5 mm
• Presence of a hemodynamically significant inflow stenosis in the aorto-iliac tract or the common femoral artery
• Participating in another trial with an investigational drug or medical device concerning the femoropopliteal tract interfering with the current study
• Life expectancy of less than 24 months
• Women of child-bearing age not on active birth control
• Legally incapable

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Complete cohort	Optical coherence tomography measurements	In all patients included in the study subsequent optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurements will be performed pre and post stent placement.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changed treatment planning based on OCT	Immediately following the procedure	The percentage of procedures in which the OCT changed the DSA-based treatment planning before and after stent placement to investigate the impact of OCT imaging on treatment planning.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Presence of artefacts in CTA scan	6-8 weeks after the procedure	The presence of artefacts will be used to determine the image quality of the CTA scan
Correlation CTA-based and OCT-based vessel lumen segmentations	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The obtained CTA-based segmentation will be compared to the OCT-based segmentation. The vessel radius along the blood vessel for both the CTA-based and OCT-based segmentation will be compared point-by-point after which the correlation beteen both segmentations will be obtained
Velocity streamlines obtained from CTA-based CFD simulation	Up to 2 years after the procedure	Velocity streamlines are calculated using a computational fluid dynamics model based on the CTA-based vessel lumen segmentation.
Time averaged wall shear stress obtained from CTA-based CFD simulation	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The second parameter calculated using the CTA-based CFD simulation is the time averaged wall shear stress. This is the wall shear stress averagerd over one heartbeat.
Velocity streamlines obtained from OCT-based CFD simulation	Up to 2 years after the procedure	Velocity streamlines are calculated using a computational fluid dynamics model based on the OCT-based vessel lumen segmentation.
Time averaged wall shear stress obtained from OCT-based CFD simulation	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The second parameter calculated using the OCT-based CFD simulation is the time averaged wall shear stress. This is the wall shear stress averagerd over one heartbeat.
Presence of artefacts in OCT scan	Immediately following the procedure	The presence of artefacts will be used to determine the image quality of the OCT scan
Segmented vessel lumen based on CTA scan	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The vessel lumen in the CTA scan will be segmented to obtain a patient-specific geometry.
Segmented vessel lumen based on OCT scan	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The vessel lumen in the OCT scan will be segmented to obtain a patient-specific geometry.
Late luminal loss	Up to 2 years after the procedure	Defined as the vessel diameter right after procedure minus the vessel diameter during follow-up
Correlation between late luminal loss and CTA-based CFD	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The regions with late luminal loss will be compared to regions with disturbed velocity streamlines and low time averaged wall shear stress (\<0.4 Pa) calculated with the CTA-based CFD. This correlation shows how well the CTA-based CFD model can predict late luminal loss.
Correlation between late luminal loss and OCT-based CFD	Up to 2 years after the procedure	The regions with late luminal loss will be compared to regions with disturbed velocity streamlines and low time averaged wall shear stress (\<0.4 Pa) calculated with the OCT-based CFD. This correlation shows how well the OCT-based CFD model can predict late luminal loss.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rijnstate; 🇳🇱 Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands