A randomized, parallel group, double-blind study of ticagrelor compared with aspirin for prevention of vascular events in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft operation: Rationale and design of the Ticagrelor in CABG (TiCAB) trial: An Investigator-Initiated trial

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• 作者：Antoinette de Waha ; MD^a ; ^b ; ^{dewaha@dhm.mhn.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Sigrid Sandner ; MD^c ; Moritz von Scheidt ; MD^a ; ^b ; Andreas Boening ; MD^d ; Katharina Koch-Buettner ; MD^a ; ^b ; Dieter Hammel ; MD^e ; Rainer Hambrecht ; MD^f ; Bernhard C. Danner ; MD^g ; Friedrich A. Schö ; ndube ; MD^g ; Gerold Goerlach ; MD^d ; Theodor Fischlein ; MD^h ; Michael Schmoeckel ; MDⁱ ; Martin Oberhoffer ; MDⁱ ; Rainer Schulz ; MD^j ; Thomas Walther ; MD^k ; Tibor Ziegelhö ; ffer ; MD^k ; Christoph Knosalla ; MD^l ; Felix Schö ; nrath ; MD^l ; ^m ; Friedhelm Beyersdorf ; MDⁿ ; Matthias Siepe ; MDⁿ ; Tim Attmann ; MD^o ; Martin Misfeld ; MD^p ; Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr ; MD^p ; Hans-Hinrich Sievers ; MD^q ; Alexander Joost ; MD^r ; Leon M. Putman ; MD^r ; Gü ; nther Laufer ; MD^c ; Christian Hamm ; MD^s ; Uwe Zeymer ; MD^t ; Adnan Kastrati ; MD^a ; ^b ; Peter W. Radke ; MD^u ; Rü ; diger Lange ; MD^v ; Jochen Cremer ; MDⁿ ; Heribert Schunkert ; MD^a ; ^b
• 刊名：American Heart Journal
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：179
• 期：Complete
• 页码：69-76
• 全文大小：211 K

文摘

For patients with coronary artery disease undergoing coronary bypass surgery, acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) currently represents the gold standard of antiplatelet treatment. However, adverse cardiovascular event rates in the first year after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) still exceed 10%. Graft failure, which is predominantly mediated by platelet aggregation, has been identified as a major contributing factor in this context. Therefore, intensified platelet inhibition is likely to be beneficial. Ticagrelor, an oral, reversibly binding and direct-acting P2Y₁₂ receptor antagonist, provides a rapid, competent, and consistent platelet inhibition and has shown beneficial results compared with clopidogrel in the subset of patients undergoing bypass surgery in a large previous trial.

Hypothesis

Ticagrelor is superior to ASA for the prevention of major cardiovascular events within 1 year after CABG.

Study design

The TiCAB trial (NCT01755520) is a multicenter, phase III, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized trial comparing ticagrelor with ASA for the prevention of major cardiovascular events within 12 months after CABG. Patients undergoing CABG will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to either ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily or ASA 100 mg once daily. The study medication will be started within 24 hours after surgery and maintained for 12 months. The primary end point is the composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, and repeat revascularization at 12 months after CABG.

The sample size is based on an expected event rate of 13% of the primary end point within the first 12 months after randomization in the control group, a 2-sided α level of .0492 (to preserve the overall significance level of .05 after planned interim analysis), a power of 0.80%, 2-sided testing, and an expected relative risk of 0.775 in the active group compared with the control group and a dropout rate of 2%. According to power calculations based on a superiority design for ticagrelor, it is estimated that 3,850 patients should be enrolled.

Summary

There is clinical equipoise on the issue of optimal platelet inhibition after CABG. The TiCAB trial will provide a pivotal comparison of the efficacy and safety of ticagrelor compared with ASA after CABG.