Vascular Healing After Deployment of Titanium-nitride-oxide-coated OPTIMAX™ Stent and PROMUS-ELEMENT™ Everolimus-Eluting Stent

Inclusion criteria

• Age >18 and <80 years
• STEMI or NSTEMI (assumed by investigator to be type 1 myocardial infarction, according to universal definitions of MI; EHJ 2007; 28(20):2525-38); or unstable angina (clinical symptoms of chest pain, ecg suggestive of reversible ischemia)
• Patient is willing to comply with specified follow-up evaluations
• Patient or legally authorized representative has been informed of the nature of the study, agrees to its provisions and has been provided written informed consent, approved by the appropriate Medical Ethics committee or Institutional Review Board
• Single de novo or non-stented restenosis lesion
• Patients with two-vessel disease may have undergone successful treatment of the non-target vessel with approved devices up to and including the index procedure but must be prior to the index target vessel treatment
• Target lesion (maximum 20 mm length by visual estimation) to be covered by a single stent of maximum 23mm length
• Reference vessel diameter must be >2.5mm and <4.0mm by visual estimate.
• The vessel diameter should be measured after pre-dilation procedure and after intracoronary nitroglycerin if vasospasm is suspected
• Target lesion >50% and <100% stenosed by visual estimate

Exclusion criteria

• Pre-existing diagnosis of diabetes irrespective of its type
• Impaired renal function (serum creatinine >177micromol/l) or on dialysis
• Platelet count < 10 e5 cells/mm3
• Patient has a history of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy or patients in whom antiplatelet and and/or anticoagulation therapy is contraindicated
• Patient has received organ transplant or is on a waiting list for any organ transplant
• Patient has a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to aspirin, heparin/bivalirudin, clopidogrel/prasugrel, stainless steel alloy, or contrast agent that cannot be adequately pre-medicated
• Patient presents with cardiogenic shock
• Any significant medical condition which in the Investigator's opinion may interfere with the patient's optimal participation in the study
• Currently participating in another intestigational drug or device study
• Unprotected left main disease
• Ostial target lesions
• Chronic total occlusion
• Calcified target lesions that cannot be adequately pre-dilated
• Target lesion has excessive tortuosity unsuitable for stent delivery and deployment
• Target lesion involving bifurcation with a side branch larger than 2.0mm in diameter
• A >30% stenosis proximal or distal to the target lesion that cannot be covered with the same stent
• Diffuse distal disease
• Prior stent in the target vessel