CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
CLINICAL RESEARCH
EuroIntervention 2019;15:
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*Corresponding author: Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo, Servicio de Cardiología, Avda Barber 30, 45004 Toledo, Spain.
E-mail: jmoreu@sescam.jccm.es
First-in-man randomised comparison of the Angiolite durable
fluoroacrylate polymer-based sirolimus-eluting stent versus
a durable fluoropolymer-based everolimus-eluting stent in
patients with coronary artery disease: the ANGIOLITE trial
José Moreu
1
*, MD, PhD; Raúl Moreno-Gómez
2
, MD, PhD;
Armando Pérez de Prado
3
, MD, PhD, FESC; Bruno García del Blanco
4
, MD, PhD;
Ramiro Trillo
5
, MD; Eduardo Pinar
6
, MD, PhD; Eduardo Molina
7
, MD; Javier Zueco
8
, MD;
Antonio Merchán
9
, MD; José Francisco Díaz-Fernández
10
, MD; Ignacio Amat
11
, MD
1. Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo, Toledo, Spain; 2. Hospital Universitario de la Paz, Madrid, Spain; 3. Hospital Universitario
de León, León, Spain; 4. Hospital Universitario Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain; 5. Hospital Santiago de Compostela,
La Coruña, Spain; 6. Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain; 7. Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain;
8. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; 9. Hospital Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Spain; 10. Hospital
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva, Spain; 11. Hospital Clínico de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
This paper also includes supplementary data published online at: https://eurointervention.pcronline.com/doi/10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00206
Abstract
Aims: The durable fluoroacrylate polymer-based sirolimus-eluting stent (Angiolite SES) has shown pro-
mising preclinical and clinical results regarding inflammatory vascular reaction and neointimal healing.
We aimed to compare performance between the Angiolite SES and an everolimus-eluting stent (EES) in
patients with coronary artery disease.
Methods and results: The ANGIOLITE trial, a prospective, randomised, multicentre trial, compared
the restenosis parameters of both stents in de novo coronary lesions. The primary endpoint was late lumen
loss at six-month angiographic follow-up. In-stent healing was assessed by optical coherence tomography
(OCT). The main clinical endpoint was target lesion failure (TLF) evaluated up to 24 months. A total of
223 patients were randomised 1:1 to EES or SES. At six months, in-stent late lumen loss was 0.08 mm
(±0.38) for EES vs 0.04 mm (±0.39) for SES (difference = – 0.04 mm, 95% CI: –0.15, 0.07, p for non-
inferiority=0.002). By OCT, the rate of uncovered to total number of struts score >30% was comparable
between the groups whereas neointimal thickness was reduced in the SES arm (9.0% [7.6, 10.6] vs 9.9%
[8.5, 11.3], p=0.41; and 86.4 [81.6, 91.2] µm vs 72.1 [68.2, 76.0] µm, p<0.01, respectively). At 24 months,
TLF occurred in eight patients (7.6% [3.3, 14.5]) in the EES arm and in seven patients (7.1% [2.9, 14.0])
in the SES arm (p=0.88). The definite/probable stent thrombosis rate was comparable between the groups
(1.9% [0.2, 6.7] vs 1.0% [0.0, 5.5] EES vs SES, respectively; p=0.59).
Conclusions: This trial demonstrates similar antirestenotic efficacy at midterm follow-up of the Angiolite
SES vs an EES. Clinical endpoints were comparable between the groups at two-year follow-up.
KEYWORDS
• clinical trials
• drug-eluting stent
• optical coherence
tomography
• QCA
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