Abstract | BACKGROUND: DESIGN: The multicenter BIOSCIENCE trial (NCT01443104) randomly assigned 2,119 patients to treatment with biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) or durable polymer EES at 9 sites in Switzerland. Patients with chronic stable coronary artery disease or acute coronary syndromes, including non-ST-elevation and ST-elevation myocardial infarction, were eligible for the trial if they had at least 1 lesion with a diameter stenosis >50% appropriate for coronary stent implantation. The primary end point target lesion failure (TLF) is a composite of cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction, and clinically driven target lesion revascularization within 12 months. Assuming a TLF rate of 8% at 12 months in both treatment arms and accepting 3.5% as a margin for noninferiority, inclusion of 2,060 patients would provide more than 80% power to detect noninferiority of the biodegradable polymer SES compared with the durable polymer EES at a 1-sided type I error of 0.05. Clinical follow-up will be continued through 5 years. CONCLUSION: The BIOSCIENCE trial will determine whether the biodegradable polymer SES is noninferior to the durable polymer EES with respect to TLF.
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Authors | Thomas Pilgrim, Marco Roffi, David Tüller, Olivier Muller, André Vuilliomenet, Stéphane Cook, Daniel Weilenmann, Christoph Kaiser, Peiman Jamshidi, Dik Heg, Peter Jüni, Stephan Windecker |
Journal | American heart journal
(Am Heart J)
Vol. 168
Issue 3
Pg. 256-61
(Sep 2014)
ISSN: 1097-6744 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 25173535
(Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Randomized Controlled Trial)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2014 Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. |
Chemical References |
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Topics |
- Absorbable Implants
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
(therapy)
- Coronary Artery Disease
(therapy)
- Drug-Eluting Stents
- Everolimus
- Humans
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Research Design
- Sirolimus
(administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives)
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