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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
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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (29)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
OLV Aalst
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AalstBelgiumRecruiting
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
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BrusselsBelgiumRecruiting
ZOL
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GenkBelgiumRecruiting
Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
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ShandongChinaActive, not recruiting
Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University
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ShanghaiChinaActive, not recruiting
West China Hospital of Sichuan University
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SichuanChinaActive, not recruiting
Herzzentrum Dresden
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DresdenGermanyRecruiting
Klinikum Fürth
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FürthGermanyRecruiting
Klinikum Herford
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HerfordGermanyRecruiting
Catholic Medical Center Koblenz-Montabaur
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KoblenzGermanyActive, not recruiting
Herzzentrum Lahr
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LahrGermanyRecruiting
Universitätsklinik
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MainzGermanyRecruiting
Germans Trias i Pujol Hopital
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BarcelonaSpainRecruiting
Hospital de Belvitge
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BarcelonaSpainRecruiting
Hospital Clinic Barcelona
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BarcelonaSpainRecruiting
CHU Lille
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LilleFranceRecruiting
Claude Bernard University
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LyonFranceActive, not recruiting
ICPS
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ParisFranceRecruiting
Nuovo Arcispedale S.Anna Di Ferrara
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FerraraItalyRecruiting
Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea
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La SpeziaItalyRecruiting
Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti
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LatinaItalyRecruiting
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II
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NaplesItalyRecruiting
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea
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RomeItalyRecruiting
Amsterdam UMC
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AmsterdamNetherlandsRecruiting
Catharina Ziekenhuis
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EindhovenNetherlandsRecruiting
UMCN Radboud
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NijmegenNetherlandsRecruiting
Dr. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1
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BydgoszczPolandRecruiting
John Paul II Specialistic Hospital
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KrakowPolandRecruiting
National Cardiac Institute
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WarsawPolandRecruiting

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