NCT05437900RecruitingPhase 4
INSIGHTFUL-FFR Clinical Trial
Pressure Microcatheter vs Pressure Wire for Clinical Decision Making and PCI Optimization
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Recently, a new device for measuring physiological lesion severity, the pressure microcatheter, was introduced. The pressure microcatheter provides similar information to the conventional measurement technique but differs as it is easily advanced on a customary coronary wire and simplifies pullback maneuvers. The pressure microcatheter has been shown to provide comparable FFR results to pressure wires. Insightful-FFR is an investigator-driven, multicenter, randomized, open-label and prospective trial of patients with stable coronary artery disease or stabilised non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with epicardial stenosis considered for PCI aiming at comparing clinical outcomes between pressure microcatheter and pressure wire-guided strategies. The study hypothesis states that the use of a Pressure Microcatheter for clinical decision making would be non-inferior to pressure wire-based strategy After determining the presence of a coronary artery disease/ stabilized acute coronary syndrome, patients will be randomized to use a pressure microcatheter (investigational device) or a pressure wire (comparator) to guide and optimize percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Patients will be followed up in hospital at 12 months and yearly until five years.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 2500 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 2 Jun 2022
- Start date
- 22 Sept 2022
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
- CoreAalst BV
- Diseases
- Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT05437900
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 4
- Planned participants: 2500
- From 22 Sept 2022 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2026
- 29 sites in 8 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Inability to take DAPT (both aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor) for at least 12 months in the patient presenting with an ACS, or at least six months in the patient presenting with stable CAD, unless the patient is also taking chronic oral anticoagulation in which case a shorter duration of DAPT may be prescribed per local standard of care.
- The subject has received a functioning solid organ transplant or is active on a waiting list for any solid organ transplants with expected transplantation within 24 months.
- The subject has previously received or is scheduled to receive radiotherapy to a coronary artery (vascular brachytherapy) or the chest/mediastinum.
- The subject has a history of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy or has had a significant gastro-intestinal or significant urinary bleed within the past six months. The subject has had a cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic neurological attack (TIA) within the past six months, any prior intracranial bleed, any permanent neurologic defect, or any known intracranial pathology (e.g., aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, etc. The subject has a life expectancy of \<2 years for any non-cardiac cause.
- The subject is currently participating in another investigational drug or device clinical study.
Other illness
- Significant contraindication to adenosine administration (e.g. heart block, severe asthma)
- Severe valvular disease.
- Planned major cardiac or non-cardiac surgery within 24 months after the index procedure. Note: major surgery is any invasive procedure in which an extensive resection is performed, e.g., a body cavity is entered, organs are removed, or normal anatomy is altered. Note: minor surgery is an operation on the superficial structures of the body or a manipulative procedure that does not involve a serious risk. Planned minor surgery is not excluded.
- Subject has known hypersensitivity or contraindication to any of the study drugs (including all P2Y12 inhibitors, one or more components of the study devices, including everolimus, zotarolimus, biolimus, sirolimus, cobalt, chromium, nickel, platinum, tungsten, acrylic, and fluoropolymers, or radiocontrast dye that cannot be adequately pre- medicated.
- The subject receives immunosuppressant therapy or has known immunosuppressive or severe autoimmune disease that requires chronic immunosuppressive therapy (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.). Note: corticosteroids are not included as immunosuppressant therapy.
- The subject has a documented or suspected hepatic disorder defined as cirrhosis or Child-Pugh ≥ Class B.
- Presence of other anatomic or comorbid conditions or other medical, social, or psychological conditions that, in the investigator's opinion, could limit the subject's ability to participate in the clinical investigation or to comply with follow-up requirements or impact the scientific soundness of the clinical investigation results.
Lab values
- Severe renal dysfunction defined as an eGFR ≤30 mL/min/1.73 m2.
- Subject has a platelet count \<100,000 cells/mm3 or \>700,000 cells/mm3.
Age
- Comorbidity with life expectancy ≤ 2 years.
Other
- STEMI as clinical presentation.
- Chronic total occlusion as a target vessel.
- Uncontrolled or recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
- Hemodynamic instability.
- Pregnancy or nursing.
Who the study is looking for
- The subject must be at least 18 years of age and younger than 85 years old.
- Eligible for elective PCI.
- Stable angina or ACS (non-culprit vessels only and outside of primary intervention during acute STEMI)
- Subject willing to participate and able to understand, read and sign the Informed Consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (29)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLV Aalst Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aalst | Belgium | Recruiting |
| Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brussels | Belgium | Recruiting |
| ZOL Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Genk | Belgium | Recruiting |
| Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shandong | China | Active, not recruiting |
| Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Active, not recruiting |
| West China Hospital of Sichuan University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sichuan | China | Active, not recruiting |
| Herzzentrum Dresden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dresden | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Fürth Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fürth | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Herford Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herford | Germany | Recruiting |
| Catholic Medical Center Koblenz-Montabaur Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Koblenz | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Herzzentrum Lahr Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lahr | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitätsklinik Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mainz | Germany | Recruiting |
| Germans Trias i Pujol Hopital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital de Belvitge Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinic Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| CHU Lille Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lille | France | Recruiting |
| Claude Bernard University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lyon | France | Active, not recruiting |
| ICPS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Nuovo Arcispedale S.Anna Di Ferrara Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ferrara | Italy | Recruiting |
| Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Spezia | Italy | Recruiting |
| Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Latina | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Amsterdam UMC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Catharina Ziekenhuis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Eindhoven | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| UMCN Radboud Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nijmegen | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Dr. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bydgoszcz | Poland | Recruiting |
| John Paul II Specialistic Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Krakow | Poland | Recruiting |
| National Cardiac Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Recruiting |
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