Leaders Free III: BioFreedom™ Clinical Trial
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03118895 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : April 18, 2017
Last Update Posted : October 31, 2022
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Cardiac Death Myocardial Infarction Stent Thrombosis Bleeding Mortality | Device: BioFreedom™ BA9™ drug-coated stent | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 404 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Masking Description: | 370 high bleeding risk items |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of the BioFreedom™ Biolimus A9™ Coated Cobalt Chromium Coronary Stent System in Patients at High Risk of Bleeding |
Actual Study Start Date : | November 8, 2017 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | February 5, 2020 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | October 7, 2022 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Treatment Arm
Patients with coronary artery disease at high risk of bleeding receiving the BioFreedom™ BA9™ drug-coated stent
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Device: BioFreedom™ BA9™ drug-coated stent
Drug-coated stent for coronary arteries |
- MACE: composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction and definite/probable stent thrombosis (safety) [ Time Frame: at 1 year ]Incidence
- clinically driven target lesion revascularization (efficacy) [ Time Frame: at 1 year ]incidence
- All-cause mortality [ Time Frame: At 1 and 4 months, and 1 and 2 years ]incidence
- Clinically Driven Target Lesion Revascularization [ Time Frame: At 1 and 4 months, and 2 years ]Incidence
- Clinically Driven Target Vessel Revascularization [ Time Frame: At 1 and 4 months, and 2 years ]Incidence

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 75 Years and older (Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) with an indication for percutaneous coronary intervention who can tolerate no more than one month of DAPT. This includes candidates with stable angina, silent ischemia, ACS (STEMI and non-STEMI), non-native lesions and in-stent restenosis. Patients must provide written informed consent.
Reasons of unsuitability for > 1 month dual antiplatelet treatment must include one or MORE of the following:
- Adjunctive oral anticoagulation treatment planned to continue after PCI
- Age ≥ 75 years old
- Baseline Hgb <11 g/dl (or anemia requiring transfusion during the 4 weeks prior to inclusion into the trial)
- Any prior intracerebral bleed
- Any stroke in the last 12 months
- Hospital admission for bleeding during the prior 12 months
- Non skin cancer diagnosed or treated ≤ 3 years
- Planned daily NSAID (other than aspirin) or steroids for ≥ 30 days after PCI
- Planned surgery that would require interruption of DAPT (within next 12 months)
- Renal failure defined as: Creatinine clearance <40 ml/min
- Thrombocytopenia (PLT <100,000/mm3)
- Severe chronic liver disease defined as: patients who have developed any of the following: variceal hemorrhage, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy or jaundice
- Expected non-compliance to prolonged DAPT for other medical reasons
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women
- Patients expected not to comply with 1 month DAPT
- Patients requiring a planned staged PCI procedure more than one week after the index procedure
- Procedure requires the use of non-study stents, or alternative therapeutic options not followed by stent implantation (angioplasty only, atherectomy only).
- Active bleeding at the time of inclusion
- If patient requires a stent <2.5mm
- If patient requires a stent >3.5mm
- Cardiogenic shock
- Compliance with long-term single anti-platelet therapy unlikely
- Known hypersensitivity or contraindication to aspirin, clopidogrel (or to any another P2Y12 inhibitor if applicable), cobalt chromium, zinc, Biolimus A9TM or a sensitivity to contrast media, which cannot be adequately pre-medicated
- PCI during the previous 12 months for a lesion other than the target lesion
- Participation in another clinical trial (12 months after index procedure)
- Patients with a life expectancy of < 1 year

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): NCT03118895
France | |
at Hôpital Privé Claude Galien ICPS | |
Quincy sous Sénart, Essonne, France, 91480 | |
Switzerland | |
Triemli Stadtspital | |
Zürich, Switzerland |
Principal Investigator: | Franz Eberli, Prof. | Chief of Cardiology - Triemli Hospital Zurich - Switzerland | |
Principal Investigator: | Philippe Garot, MD | Hôpital Privé Claude Galien ICPS - France |
Responsible Party: | Biosensors Europe SA |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03118895 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
17EU01 |
First Posted: | April 18, 2017 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | October 31, 2022 |
Last Verified: | October 2022 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Myocardial Infarction Thrombosis Infarction Hemorrhage Death Ischemia Pathologic Processes |
Necrosis Myocardial Ischemia Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Vascular Diseases Embolism and Thrombosis |