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ArticleWorld journal of cardiology2025

Intravascular ULTRA sound-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with STEMI: Rationale and design of the ULTRA-STEMI trial.

Efstratios Karagiannidis, Andreas S Papazoglou, Athanasios Samaras, Athina Nasoufidou, Georgios Zormpas, Georgios Tagarakis, Konstantinos C Theodoropoulos, Marios Papadakis, Apostolos Tzikas, Nikolaos Fragakis and 1 more

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Efstratios KaragiannidisSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Andreas S PapazoglouDepartment of Cardiology, Athens Naval Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Athanasios SamarasSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Athina NasoufidouSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Georgios ZormpasSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Georgios TagarakisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 55535, Greece.
Konstantinos C Theodoropoulos1 Cardiology Department, AHEPA General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54621, Greece.
Marios PapadakisDepartment of Surgery II, Institution University of Witten-Herdecke, Wuppertal 42283, Germany.
Apostolos TzikasSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
Nikolaos FragakisSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece.
George KassimisSecond Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece. gksup@yahoo.gr.

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Abstract

backgroundSafety and efficacy of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been consistently shown in recent trials. However, prospective data on the clinical effects of IVUS usage in primary PCI are still warranted. The ULTRA-STEMI trial is a prospective investigator-initiated observational single-center cohort trial aiming to enroll 80 patients with STEMI.

aimTo investigate the outcomes of patients with STEMI undergoing IVUS-guided PCI and correlate derived IVUS measurements with clinical, procedural, imaging and follow-up outcomes of interest.

methodsStudy participants will undergo primary PCI as per standardized procedures. IVUS pullbacks will be performed pre-intervention, post-lesion preparation, post-intervention and post-optimization using a 20 MHz digital IVUS (Eagle Eye Platinum, Philips). Manual thrombus aspiration will be performed in cases of high thrombus burden. The aspirated thrombi will be scanned with micro-computed tomography to extract volumetric measurements of the aspirated thrombotic burden. Moreover, angiographic, peri-procedural and 3-year follow-up data will be gathered. Co-primary endpoints will be cardiovascular mortality and target vessel failure, defined as the composite of: Cardiovascular mortality, target vessel myocardial infarction and/or clinically driven target vessel revascularization.

resultsThe results of the study are expected by the third quarter of 2029.

conclusionThe ULTRA-STEMI trial will add to the existing literature the clinical, angiographic, micro-computed tomography and follow-up outcomes of IVUS-guided PCI in 80 patients presenting with STEMI.

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Intravascular ultrasoundMicro-computed tomographyPrimary percutaneous coronary interventionSTEMI

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PMCPMC12038702

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