Preventive PCI or Medical Therapy Alone for Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Coronary Plaque (PREVENT)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02316886 |
Recruitment Status :
Active, not recruiting
First Posted : December 15, 2014
Last Update Posted : February 22, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Coronary Artery Disease Plaque, Atherosclerotic | Device: Coronary intervention Drug: Optimal Medical treatment | Phase 4 |
Sub-analysis for each imaging test will be performed as below;
- NIRS(Near-infrared spectroscopy)
- OCT(Optical coherence tomography)
- VH-IVUS(IVUS-derived virtual histology)
- IVUS(Intravascular ultrasonography)
Extended follow-up:
Considering the nature of functionally insignificant coronary stenosis with vulnerable plaque, most subjects are watched for extended follow-up after the planned 2-year follow-up time point.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1608 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | a Multinational, Multicenter, Prospective, Open-label, Active-treatment-controlled Randomized Trial: Preventive PCI or Medical Therapy Alone for Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Coronary Plaque_PREVENT Trial |
Actual Study Start Date : | October 5, 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | September 30, 2023 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 31, 2023 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Coronary intervention
bioabsorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) (early period) or everolimus-eluting stents (middle and late period) +Optimal Medical Treatment
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Device: Coronary intervention
bioabsorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) (early period) or everolimus-eluting stents (middle and late period) + Optimal Medical Treatment |
Active Comparator: Optimal Medical Treatment
Optimal Medical Treatment
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Drug: Optimal Medical treatment |
- Target vessel failure [ Time Frame: 2 years ]target-vessel failure, which was defined a composite of death from cardiac causes, target-vessel myocardial infarction, ischemic-driven target-vessel revascularization, or hospitalization for unstable or progressive angina
- Death from cardiac causes [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Target-vessel myocardial infarction [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Ischemic-driven target-vessel revascularization [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Hospitalization for unstable or progressive angina [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Death from all, cardiac, or noncardiac causes [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Myocardial infarction [ Time Frame: 2 years ]Periprocedural or spontaneous, target-vessel or non-target-vessel related
- Repeat revascularization [ Time Frame: 2 years ]Repeat revascularization (target-vessel or non-target-vessel, ischemia-driven or non-ischemia-driven)
- Any hospitalization for cardiac or noncardiac causes [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Target-lesion failure [ Time Frame: 2 years ]cardiac death, target-vessel myocardial infarction or ischemia-driven target-lesion revascularization
- Major adverse cardiac event [ Time Frame: 2 years ]defined as death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or unplanned rehospitalization due to unstable or progressive angina
- Composite of any death, myocardial infarction, or repeat revascularization [ Time Frame: 2 years ]A composite endpoint is an endpoint that is a combination of multiple clinical endpoints. An event is considered to have occurred if any one of several different events is observed.
- Rate of Scaffold or stent thrombosis [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Rate of Stroke [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Rate of Bleeding events [ Time Frame: 2 years ]life-threatening or disabling, major or minor
- Rate of Nonurgent revascularization procedures [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Functional class [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
It is assessed by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Classification at each point in time.
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) classification has four categories; the minimum and maximum values are 1 and 4 respectively. A higher score means a worse outcome.
- Number of anti-anginal medications administered [ Time Frame: 2 years ]Number of anti-anginal medication at each point in time

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients aged ≥18 years
- Patients with suspected or known Coronary artery disease who are undergoing invasive cardiac catheterization
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Patients with at least one significant stenosis (diameter stenosis >50%) with Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) >0.80 and meeting two of the following criteria:
- MLA(minimal luminal area)<4mm2
- Plaque burden>70%
- Large lipid-rich plaque on NIRS(Intracoronary Near-Infrared Spectroscopy), defined as MaxLCBI4mm>315
- TCFA(thin-cap fibroatheroma) defined as fibrous cap thickness <65 μm and arc >90° on optical coherence tomography (OCT) or ≥10% confluent necrotic core with >30° abutting the lumen in three consecutive slices on Virtual-histology intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS)
- Eligible for percutaneous coronary intervention with Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold or Everolimus Eluting Stent
- Reference vessel diameter 2.75-4.0
- Lesion length ≤ 40mm
- Willing and able to provide informed written consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients for whom the preferred treatment is CABG(Coronary artery bypass grafting)
- Patients with stented lesions
- Patients with bypass graft lesions
- Patients with three or more target lesions
- Patients with two target lesions in the same coronary territory
- Patients with heavily calcified or angulated lesions
- Patients with bifurcation lesions requiring 2 stenting technique
- Patients with contraindications to or planned discontinuation of dual antiplatelet therapy within 1 year
- Patients with life expectancy <2 years
- Patients with planned cardiac or major noncardiac surgery
- Woman who are breastfeeding, pregnant or planning to become pregnant during the course of the study

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02316886

Principal Investigator: | Duk-woo Park, MD | Asan Medical Center |
Responsible Party: | Seung-Jung Park, MD,PhD, Asan Medical Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02316886 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
AMCCV2014-13 |
First Posted: | December 15, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 22, 2023 |
Last Verified: | February 2023 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Undecided |
coronary intervention Vulnerable Plaque Insignificant Stenosis Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Everolimus Eluting stent |
Coronary Artery Disease Plaque, Atherosclerotic Coronary Disease Myocardial Ischemia Heart Diseases |
Cardiovascular Diseases Arteriosclerosis Arterial Occlusive Diseases Vascular Diseases Pathological Conditions, Anatomical |