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Invasive Versus Non-invasive Approach in Symptomatic Patient With Non-High Risk Coronary Artery Stenosis

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Coronary Artery Disease
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Non-invasive functional test
Diagnostic Test: Invasive coronary angiography
Registration Number
NCT05799092
Lead Sponsor
Samsung Medical Center
Brief Summary

A pragmatic, prospective, multi-center, open label, randomized controlled, superiority trial.

The study will compare clinical outcomes between invasive versus non-invasive approach as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) on coronary computed tomography-angiography (CCTA).

Detailed Description

CCTA has been emerged as useful diagnostic tool to evaluate CAD. Besides high diagnostic accuracy, CCTA has additional benefit of measuring the cumulative atherosclerotic burden and more accurately discriminating obstructive CAD with additional fractional flow reserve by CT (FFRCT), making it more predictive of a patient's prognosis. Recently, several randomized clinical trials have demonstrated the clinical utility of CCTA when compared with noninvasive stress test, which has been previously widely used as an initial assessment for stable chest pain, or invasive coronary angiography, which is the gold standard for diagnosing obstructive CAD.

On this background, CCTA, along with stress imaging test, is recommended as first step to diagnose obstructive CAD in patients with intermediate to high pretest probabilities with stable chest pain and is increasingly utilized. Although CCTA is increasingly used as initial assessment tool in these patients, there are insufficient studies to clearly establish the next step after obstructive CAD is confirmed in CCTA. Without high-risk features of CAD on CCTA, current guidelines suggest noninvasive stress imaging or FFRCT as class IIA recommendation. However, supporting evidence of these suggestions are mostly based on studies with low level of evidence. Furthermore, given the limited diagnostic performance of noninvasive stress test, concern remains whether it is safe to defer invasive coronary angiography based on the result from noninvasive stress test in patients with obstructive CAD on CCTA.

Therefore, this trial aims to compare clinical outcomes between invasive versus non-invasive approach as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive CAD on CCTA.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
2000
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Subject age ≥19 years old
  2. Patients with new or worsening chest pain syndrome, equivalent symptoms, or abnormal laboratory test findings (suspected ischemic changes in electrocardiography, regional wall motion abnormality in echocardiography, or coronary calcium score > 100) suspected for clinically significant CAD who are evaluated by CCTA
  3. Any other clinical circumstance in which physician judged to proceed CCTA
  4. Obstructive CAD in CCTA (≥50% diameter stenosis)
  5. Subject who can verbally confirm understandings of risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives of receiving invasive approach and he/she or his/her legally authorized representative provides written informed consent prior to any study related procedure.
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Diagnosed or suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) requiring hospitalization or urgent or emergent testing (elevated cardiac troponin or CK-MB)
  2. High risk CAD (left main stenosis ≥ 50%; anatomically significant 3-vessel disease with ≥70% stenosis)
  3. Hemodynamically or clinically unstable condition (systolic BP < 90 mmHg, ventricular arrhythmias, or persistent resting chest pain in ischemic nature despite adequate therapy
  4. Known CAD with previous MI, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
  5. Known true anaphylaxis to contrast medium (not allergic reaction but anaphylactic shock)
  6. Known significant congenital, severe valvular or cardiomyopathic (hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy, or any other forms) process which could explain cardiac symptoms.
  7. Severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction <30%)
  8. Intolerance to Aspirin, Clopidogrel, or Heparin.
  9. 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)
  10. Unwillingness or inability to comply with the procedures described in this protocol.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Non-invasive approach groupNon-invasive functional testUsual care of non-invasive ischemia testing (exercise electrocardiography \[ECG\], stress echocardiography by exercise or pharmacologic agent, nuclear test including SPECT or PET, stress cardiac magnetic resonance \[MR\]) will be performed as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive CAD on CCTA.
Invasive approach groupInvasive coronary angiographyInvasive coronary angiography will be performed as next diagnostic step in symptomatic patients with non-high risk obstructive CAD on CCTA..
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time to first event of major adverse cardiac events (MACE)2 years after the last patient enrollment

MACE is a composite of death from any causes, myocardial infarction (MI), clinically driven unplanned revascularization.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
All-cause death2 years after the last patient enrollment

All-cause death

Cardiac death2 years after the last patient enrollment

Cardiac death

Any MI2 years after the last patient enrollment

Defined by Forth Universal definition of MI

Spontaneous MI2 years after the last patient enrollment

Defined by Forth Universal definition of MI

Procedure-related MI2 years after the last patient enrollment

Defined by ARC II definition

Resuscitated cardiac arrest2 years after the last patient enrollment

Resuscitated cardiac arrest

Unplanned revascularization (clinically driven)2 years after the last patient enrollment

Unplanned revascularization (clinically driven)

Cerebrovascular accidents2 years after the last patient enrollment

Cerebrovascular accidents (ischemic or hemorrhagic)

Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events2 years after the last patient enrollment

Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE, a composite of death, MI, clinically-driven unplanned revascularization, or cerebrovascular accident)

Rate of index coronary angiographyup to 30 days following randomization

Rate of index coronary angiography

Rate of index revascularization by PCI or CABGup to 30 days following randomization

Rate of index revascularization by PCI or CABG

European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions6 months after initial management according to allocated diagnostic test

European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions

Seattle Angina Questionnaire6 months after initial management according to allocated diagnostic test

Seattle Angina Questionnaire

Total medical cost2 years after the last patient enrollment

Total medical cost

Procedure-related complications from invasive procedureup to 30 days following randomization

Procedure-related complications from invasive procedure

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Samsung Medical Center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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