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NCT Number: NCT04634240

Staged Complete Revascularization for Coronary Artery Disease vs Medical Management Alone in Patients With AS Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) often have concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD) which may adversely affect prognosis. There is uncertainty about the benefits and the optimal timing of revascularization for such patients. There is currently clinical equipoise regarding the management of concomitant CAD in patients undergoing TAVR. Some centers perform routine revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (either before or after TAVR), while others follow an alternative strategy of medical management.

The potential benefits and optimal timing of PCI in these patients are unknown. As TAVR expands to lower risk patients, and potentially becomes the preferred therapy for the majority of patients with severe aortic stenosis, the optimal management of concomitant coronary artery disease will be of increasing importance.

The COMPLETE TAVR study will determine whether, on a background of guideline-directed medical therapy, a strategy of complete revascularization involving staged PCI using drug eluting stents to treat all suitable coronary artery lesions is superior to a strategy of medical therapy alone in reducing the composite outcome of Cardiovascular Death, new Myocardial Infarction, Ischemia-driven Revascularization or Hospitalization for Unstable Angina or Heart Failure.

The study will be a randomized, multicenter, open-label trial with blinded adjudication of outcomes. Patients will be screened and consented for elective transfemoral TAVR and randomized within 96 hours of successful balloon expandable TAVR.

Complete Revascularization:

Staged PCI using third generation drug eluting stents to treat all suitable coronary artery lesions in vessels that are at least 2.5 mm in diameter and that are amenable to treatment with PCI and have a ≥70% visual angiographic diameter stenosis. Staged PCI can occur any time from 1 to 45 days post successful transfemoral TAVR.

Vs. Medical Therapy Alone:

No further revascularization of coronary artery lesions.

All patients, regardless of randomized treatment allocation, will receive guideline-directed medical therapy consisting of risk factor modification and use of evidence-based therapies. The COMPLETE TAVR study will help address the current lack of evidence in this area. It will likely impact both the global delivery of health care and the management and clinical outcomes of all patients undergoing TAVR with concomitant CAD.

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Key information

Conditions

Aortic Stenosis Aortic Valve Disease Aortic Valve Stenosis Arterial Occlusive Diseases Arteriosclerosis Cardiovascular Diseases Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Disease Coronary Stenosis Heart Diseases Heart Valve Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Vascular Diseases Ventricular Outflow Obstruction

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Alberta, Mazankowski Heart Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Symptomatic aortic valve stenosis prior to TAVR (NYHA Functional Class ≥ 2 OR Abnormal exercise test with severe SOB, abnormal BP response, or arrhythmia)

AND

  • CAD defined as: at least 1 coronary artery lesion of ≥70% visual angiographic diameter stenosis in a native segment ≥2.5 mm in diameter that is not a CTO and is amenable to treatment with PCI

AND

  • Consensus by the Local Multidisciplinary Heart Team that the patient is suitable for elective transfemoral TAVR with a balloon expandable transcatheter heart valve AND would receive a bypass with an anastomosis distal to the coronary artery lesion(s) if they were undergoing SAVR.

Local Multidisciplinary Heart Teams are expected to follow current clinical guidelines for selection of patients for TAVR with an eligible patient generally expected to have:

[AVA ≤ 1.0 cm2 OR AVA index ≤ 0.6 cm2/m2]

OR

[Jet velocity ≥ 4.0 m/s OR mean gradient ≥ 40 mmHg]

OR

patients without these criteria may undergo TAVR if the Local Multidisciplinary Heart Team concludes it is appropriate.

AND

  • Successful transfemoral TAVR, defined as the implantation of a single transcatheter aortic valve within the past 96 hours with freedom from more than minimal aortic insufficiency, stroke, or major vascular complications.

Exclusion criteria

  • PCI already performed within 90 days prior to TAVR or at the same time as the index transfemoral TAVR procedure
  • Planned PCI of coronary artery lesion(s)
  • Planned surgical revascularization of coronary artery lesion(s)
  • Non-cardiovascular co-morbidity reducing life expectancy to < 5 years
  • Any factor precluding 5-year follow-up
  • Prior coronary artery bypass grafting surgery or surgical valve replacement
  • Severe mitral regurgitation (> 3+)
  • Severe left ventricular dysfunction (LVEF < 30%)
  • Low coronary takeoff (high risk for coronary obstruction)
  • Acute myocardial infarction within 90 days
  • Stroke or transient ischemic attack within 90 days
  • Renal insufficiency (eGFR < 30 ml/min) and/or renal replacement Rx
  • Hemodynamic or respiratory instability

Treatment and study plan

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

Procedure

PCI of all qualifying lesions.

Primary outcomes

  1. Composite of Cardiovascular Death or New Myocardial Infarction or Ischemia-Driven Revascularization or Hospitalization for Unstable Angina or Heart Failure

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cardiovascular Death or New Myocardial Infarction

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Deaths will be classified as cardiovascular or non-cardiovascular. All deaths with a clear cardiovascular or unknown cause, will be classified as cardiovascular. However, within cardiovascular deaths, hemorrhagic deaths will be clearly identified. Only deaths due to a documented non-cardiovascular cause (e.g., cancer) will be classified as non-cardiovascular.

    Myocardial Infarction will be defined according to the 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction, with modification for Type 4a (PCI-related) and Type 5 (CABG-related) as defined for the ISCHEMIA trial and as used in the COMPLETE trial.

  2. Transaortic gradient immediately post-TAVR (echocardiographically-derived vs. direct invasive measurement)

    Time frame: Immediately post-TAVR

  3. Transaortic Gradient Reclassification

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Proportion of patients developing echocardiographic aortic gradient ≥20 mmHg who are found to have a gradient < 20 mmHg on direct hemodynamic assessment.

  4. VARC-3 Hemodynamic Valve Deterioration Reclassification

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Proportion of patients developing ≥ moderate echocardiographic VARC-3 valve deterioration reclassified to < moderate VARC-3 valve deterioration using direct invasive methods, including mean gradient and valve area.

  5. Severe Patient Prosthesis Mismatch (PPM) Reclassification

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Proportion of patients with echocardiographic severe PPM immediately post-TAVR, reclassified as non-severe PPM using direct invasive methods.

  6. Composite of CV Death, New MI, IDR or Hospitalization for UA or for HF in patients with PPM and elevated gradients vs those without

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Deaths: will be classified as cardiovascular or non-cardiovascular. All deaths with a clear cardiovascular or unknown cause, will be classified as cardiovascular. However, within cardiovascular deaths, hemorrhagic deaths will be clearly identified. Only deaths due to a documented non-cardiovascular cause (e.g., cancer) will be classified as non-cardiovascular.

    Myocardial Infarction: will be defined according to the 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction, with modification for Type 4a (PCI-related) and Type 5 (CABG-related) as defined for the ISCHEMIA trial and as used in the COMPLETE trial.

    Hospital admission: for protocol-defined unstable angina, new/worsening NYHA Class IV heart failure, or for protocol-defined Ischemia-driven revascularization, among patients with patient prosthesis mismatch (PPM), elevated echocardiography-derived transaortic gradients and elevated direct invasive transaortic gradient vs those without.

  7. Composite outcome of mean echocardiographic gradient ≥ 20mmHg, severe PPM, ≥ moderate AR, thrombosis, endocarditis, and aortic valve re-intervention

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

  8. Cardiovascular Death

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

  9. New Myocardial Infarction

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

  10. Ischemia-Driven Revascularization

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

  11. Hospitalization for Unstable Angina or Heart Failure

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

  12. All-cause Mortality

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Includes deaths from both cardiac and non-cardiac causes

  13. Stroke

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Defined as the presence of a new focal neurologic deficit thought to be vascular in origin, with signs or symptoms lasting more than 24 hours. It is strongly recommended (but not required) that an imaging procedure such as CT scan or MRI be performed. Stroke will be further classified as ischemic, hemorrhagic or type uncertain.

  14. Bleeding

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Clinically overt, symptomatic bleeding with at least one of the following criteria:

    • Fatal, or
    • Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, or
    • Retroperitoneal hemorrhage, or
    • Intraocular hemorrhage leading to significant vision loss, or
    • Decrease in hemoglobin of 3.0 g/dL (with each blood transfusion unit counting for 1.0 g/dL of Hb) or requiring transfusion of two or more units of red blood cells or equivalent of whole blood.
    • Requiring surgical intervention to stop the bleeding

  15. Angina status

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    As evaluated by the Seattle Angina Questionnaire

  16. Economic evaluation

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Includes health resource utilization, costs, and cost-effectiveness

  17. Patient-reported outcomes

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    Health-related quality of life as evaluated by the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire at baseline, 30 days, 6 months, 1 year, and annually thereafter.

  18. Contrast-associated acute kidney injury

    Time frame: Median follow-up of 3.5 years

    An absolute rise in serum creatinine of greater than or equal to 44 μmol/L from baseline and/or a relative rise in serum creatinine of ≥25% compared to baseline at any time between 48hrs and 96hrs post-procedure.

  19. Fluoroscopic time for Staged PCI procedure

    Time frame: During PCI procedure

    Total time under fluoroscopy

  20. Contrast Utilization for Stages PCI Procedure

    Time frame: During PCI procedure

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Brady J Robinson, CCRP

CONTACT

[email protected]

604-875-4111 ext. 22936

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of British Columbia

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Randomized, Comparative Effectiveness Study of Staged Complete Revascularization With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention to Treat Coronary Artery Disease vs Medical Management Alone in Patients With Symptomatic Aortic Valve Stenosis Undergoing Elective Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: The COMPLETE TAVR Study

Acronym: COMPLETE TAVR

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Nov 18, 2020
Registry last updated
Jul 24, 2025

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