Novel approaches to modify stents (e.g., bioactive agents, coatings) have been developed to address the limitations of bare-metal and drug-eluting stents (e.g., restenosis, target lesion revascularization [TLR], late thrombosis).
This first-in-man study using the Catania stent is a prospective, single center, nonrandomized, single-arm study of 55 patients with symptomatic ischemic heart disease with de novo, obstructive lesions of native coronary arteries.
Acute angiographic success was 100 % . A core laboratory analyzed quantitative coronary angiography and intravascular ultrasound data immediately after stenting and at 6-month follow-up. Late lumen loss was 0.60 ¡À 0.48 mm and the percent neointimal hyperplasia volume was 27.9 ¡À 16.1 % . In 15 of 55 randomly selected patients, 1,904 cross-sections (19,028 struts) were analyzed at 6 months by optical coherence tomography. Overall, 99.5 % of struts were covered. Only 29 of 19,028 struts (0.15 % ) were malapposed. Binary angiographic restenosis was 6.8 % . No death, myocardial infarction, or Academic Research Consortium¨Cdefined stent thrombosis was observed at 12 months. The incidence of TLR at 12 months was clinically driven TLR 3.6 % (2 of 55) and nonclinically driven TLR 7.3 % (4 of 55).
This first-in-man showed an excellent early and mid-term safety profile and high-level efficacy of the new Catania stent in the treatment of de novo coronary lesions in a fairly complex population. Polyzene-F coated stents may be an alternative to both bare-metal and drug-eluting stents with reduced late loss, restenosis, and the TLR without long-term dual antiplatelet therapy.