INSIGHTFUL-FFR Clinical Trial

Last updated: January 9, 2026
Sponsor: CoreAalst BV
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

4

Condition

Vascular Diseases

Cardiovascular Disease

Atherosclerosis

Treatment

Pressure Wire guided strategy - PIOS - PW

Pressure Microcatheter guided strategy - PIOS MC

Pressure Microcatheter guided strategy - Standard of care

Clinical Study ID

NCT05437900
CA-053
  • Ages 18-85
  • All Genders

Study Summary

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.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. The subject must be at least 18 years of age and younger than 85 years old.

  2. Eligible for elective PCI.

  3. Stable angina or ACS (non-culprit vessels only and outside of primary interventionduring acute STEMI)

  4. Subject willing to participate and able to understand, read and sign the InformedConsent.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. STEMI as clinical presentation.

  2. Chronic total occlusion as a target vessel.

  3. Significant contraindication to adenosine administration (e.g. heart block, severeasthma)

  4. Uncontrolled or recurrent ventricular tachycardia.

  5. Hemodynamic instability.

  6. Severe valvular disease.

  7. Severe renal dysfunction defined as an eGFR ≤30 mL/min/1.73 m2.

  8. Comorbidity with life expectancy ≤ 2 years.

  9. Inability to take DAPT (both aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor) for at least 12 monthsin the patient presenting with an ACS, or at least six months in the patientpresenting with stable CAD, unless the patient is also taking chronic oralanticoagulation in which case a shorter duration of DAPT may be prescribed per localstandard of care.

  10. Planned major cardiac or non-cardiac surgery within 24 months after the indexprocedure. Note: major surgery is any invasive procedure in which an extensiveresection is performed, e.g., a body cavity is entered, organs are removed, ornormal anatomy is altered. Note: minor surgery is an operation on the superficialstructures of the body or a manipulative procedure that does not involve a seriousrisk. Planned minor surgery is not excluded.

  11. 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 beadequately pre- medicated.

  12. The subject has received a functioning solid organ transplant or is active on awaiting list for any solid organ transplants with expected transplantation within 24months.

  13. The subject receives immunosuppressant therapy or has known immunosuppressive orsevere autoimmune disease that requires chronic immunosuppressive therapy (e.g.,human immunodeficiency virus, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.). Note:corticosteroids are not included as immunosuppressant therapy.

  14. The subject has previously received or is scheduled to receive radiotherapy to acoronary artery (vascular brachytherapy) or the chest/mediastinum.

  15. Subject has a platelet count <100,000 cells/mm3 or >700,000 cells/mm3.

  16. The subject has a documented or suspected hepatic disorder defined as cirrhosis orChild-Pugh ≥ Class B.

  17. The subject has a history of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy or has had asignificant gastro-intestinal or significant urinary bleed within the past sixmonths. The subject has had a cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemicneurological 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 <2years for any non-cardiac cause.

  18. The subject is currently participating in another investigational drug or deviceclinical study.

  19. Pregnancy or nursing.

  20. Presence of other anatomic or comorbid conditions or other medical, social, orpsychological conditions that, in the investigator's opinion, could limit thesubject's ability to participate in the clinical investigation or to comply withfollow-up requirements or impact the scientific soundness of the clinicalinvestigation results.

Study Design

Total Participants: 2500
Treatment Group(s): 4
Primary Treatment: Pressure Wire guided strategy - PIOS - PW
Phase: 4
Study Start date:
September 22, 2022
Estimated Completion Date:
June 30, 2030

Connect with a study center

  • OLV Aalst

    Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen 9300
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • OLV Aalst

    Aalst 2803448, Oost-Vlaanderen 9300
    Belgium

    Active - Recruiting

  • Universitair ziekenhuis Brussel

    Brussel,
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • Universitair ziekenhuis Brussel

    Brussels 2800866,
    Belgium

    Active - Recruiting

  • ZOL

    Genk,
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • ZOL

    Genk 2797670,
    Belgium

    Active - Recruiting

  • Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases

    Shanghai, Xuhui District 200031
    China

    Site Not Available

  • Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University

    Shanghai, Xuhui District 200031
    China

    Site Not Available

  • Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University

    Shanghai 1796236, Xuhui District 200031
    China

    Site Not Available

  • QILU Hospital of Shandong University

    Shandong,
    China

    Site Not Available

  • QILU Hospital of Shandong University

    Shandong 7401388,
    China

    Site Not Available

  • West China Hospital of Sichuan University

    Sichuan,
    China

    Site Not Available

  • West China Hospital of Sichuan University

    Sichuan 7348569,
    China

    Site Not Available

  • CHU Lille

    Lille,
    France

    Site Not Available

  • CHU Lille

    Lille 2998324,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Claude Bernard University

    Lyon,
    France

    Site Not Available

  • Claude Bernard University

    Lyon 2996944,
    France

    Site Not Available

  • ICPS

    Paris,
    France

    Site Not Available

  • ICPS

    Paris 2988507,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Herzzentrum Dresden

    Dresden,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Herzzentrum Dresden

    Dresden 2935022,
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Klinikum Fürth

    Fürth,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Klinikum Fürth

    Fürth 2923544,
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Klinikum Herford

    Herford,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Klinikum Herford

    Herford 2906121,
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Catholic Medical Center Koblenz-Montabaur

    Koblenz,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Catholic Medical Center Koblenz-Montabaur

    Koblenz 2886946,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Herzzentrum Lahr

    Lahr,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Herzzentrum Lahr

    Lahr 2881885,
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Universitätsklinik

    Mainz,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Universitätsklinik

    Mainz 2874225,
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Nuovo Arcispedale S.Anna Di Ferrara

    Ferrara,
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Nuovo Arcispedale S.Anna Di Ferrara

    Ferrara 3177090,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea

    La Spezia,
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea

    La Spezia 3175081,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti

    Latina,
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti

    Latina 3175058,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II

    Naples,
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II

    Naples 3172394,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea

    Rome,
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Sant'Andrea

    Rome 3169070,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Amsterdam UMC

    Amsterdam,
    Netherlands

    Site Not Available

  • Amsterdam UMC

    Amsterdam 2759794,
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Catharina Ziekenhuis

    Eindhoven,
    Netherlands

    Site Not Available

  • Catharina Ziekenhuis

    Eindhoven 2756253,
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • UMCN Radboud

    Nijmegen,
    Netherlands

    Site Not Available

  • UMCN Radboud

    Nijmegen 2750053,
    Netherlands

    Active - Recruiting

  • Dr. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1

    Bydgosz,
    Poland

    Site Not Available

  • Dr. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1

    Bydgoszcz 3102014,
    Poland

    Active - Recruiting

  • John Paul II Specialistic Hospital

    Krakow,
    Poland

    Site Not Available

  • John Paul II Specialistic Hospital

    Krakow 3094802,
    Poland

    Active - Recruiting

  • Uniwersitecki Szpital Kliniczny w Poznan

    Poznan,
    Poland

    Site Not Available

  • MSWIA Hospital Rzeszow

    Rzeszow,
    Poland

    Site Not Available

  • National Cardiac Institute

    Warsaw,
    Poland

    Site Not Available

  • National Cardiac Institute

    Warsaw 756135,
    Poland

    Active - Recruiting

  • Germans Trias i Pujol Hopital

    Barcelona,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital Clínic Barcelona

    Barcelona, 08036
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital de Belvitge

    Barcelona,
    Spain

    Site Not Available

  • Germans Trias i Pujol Hopital

    Barcelona 3128760,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital Clínic Barcelona

    Barcelona 3128760, 08036
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital de Belvitge

    Barcelona 3128760,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

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