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Coronary Artery DiseaseNCT06358508

Sapphire 3 CTO Study

A study testing Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheter in people with Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Disease, run by OrbusNeich at 14 sites in 2 countries.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

A prospective, open label, multi-center, single arm, observational study designed to evaluate the acute safety and device performance of the Sapphire 3 0.85, 1.0 and 1.25mm diameter coronary dilatation catheter in predilatation of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) lesions during percutaneous coronary intervention. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheter
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
170 participants
Where
14 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
6 Nov 2024to 21 Oct 2025
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Clinical Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject is ≥ 18 years of age.
  2. Subject or a legally authorized representative must provide written informed consent prior to any study related procedures.
  3. Subject must agree not to participate in any other clinical study during hospitalization for the index procedure that would interfere with the endpoints of this study.
  4. Subjects must have a single or double vessel coronary artery disease and clinical evidence of ischemic heart disease, such as stable / unstable angina or silent ischemia attributed to the CTO target vessel and is scheduled for clinically indicated percutaneous revascularization with planned stent placement during this index procedure. Angiographic Inclusion Criteria
  5. Subject must have at least one de novo or restenotic lesion in native coronary arteries with Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade of 0 or 1 and is estimated to be at least 3 months in duration by clinical, angiographic, or electrocardiographic criteria.
  6. A maximum of two lesions, including at least one target lesion, in up to two coronary arteries.
  7. Treatment of non-target lesion, if any, must be completed prior to treatment of target lesion and must be deemed a clinical angiographic success by visual assessment.
  8. The Target lesion is intended for stent placement during this index procedure.

Clinical Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject with a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to aspirin, heparin, bivalirudin, anti-platelet medications, or sensitivity to contrast media which cannot be adequately pre-medicated.
  2. Evidence of acute myocardial infarction (MI) within 72 hours prior to the intended treatment defined as CK-MB or troponin greater than 1X the upper limit of normal (ULN).
  3. Subject with known pregnancy or is nursing. Women of child- bearing potential should have a documented negative pregnancy test within 7 days before index procedure.
  4. Planned or actual target lesion treatment prior to the use of the Study Device with an unapproved device, atherectomy, laser, cutting balloon or thrombectomy during the index procedure.
  5. A serum creatinine level > 2.0 mg/dl within seven days prior to index procedure.
  6. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) within the past 6 months.
  7. Active peptic ulcer or active gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding within the past 6 months.
  8. Subject has a known left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <30% (LVEF may be obtained at the time of the index procedure if the value is unknown, if necessary). Angiographic Exclusion Criteria
  9. More than two lesions requiring treatment.
  10. Unprotected left main coronary artery disease. (Greater than 50% diameter stenosis).
  11. Coronary artery spasm of the target vessel in the absence of a significant stenosis.
  12. Target lesion with angiographic presence of probable or definite thrombus of TIMI thrombus grade 3 or 4.
  13. By visual estimation, target lesion involves a bifurcation requiring treatment with more than one stent or pre-dilatation of a side branch >2.25 mm in diameter.
  14. Previous coronary interventional procedure of any kind within the 30 days prior to the procedure in the target vessel.
  15. Target vessel with a patent bypass graft from prior coronary bypass surgery.
  16. Previous stenting (drug-eluting or bare metal) in the target vessel unless all the following conditions are met:
  • It has been at least 9 months since the previous stenting.
  • That target lesion is at least 15 mm away from the previously placed stent. Total occlusions involving an in-stent segment are excluded.
  • The previously stented segment (stent plus 5 mm on either side) has no more than 40% diameter stenosis.
  1. Non-target lesion to be treated during the index procedure meets any of the following criteria:
  • Located within a bypass graft (venous or arterial)
  • Left main location
  • Chronic total occlusion (CTO)
  • Is moderately to severely calcified.
  • Involves a bifurcation (e.g., bifurcations requiring treatment with more than 1 stent)
  • Treatment not deemed a clinical angiographic success

Trial locations and contacts

14 sites in 2 countries.

14 sites in 2 countries

United States12 sites
  • Emory University Hospital Midtown

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30308

  • Piedmont Heart Institute

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30309

  • Emory University Hospital

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30322

  • Emory St. Joseph's Hospital

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30342

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

  • Atlanta VA Health Care System

    Decatur, Georgia, 30033

  • Henry Ford Health System

    Detroit, Michigan, 48202

  • Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407

  • University of Washington

    Seattle, Washington, 98195

  • Stanford Health Care

    Stanford, California, 94305

  • Torrance Memorial Medical Center

    Torrance, California, 90505

Other trials in United States

Spain2 sites
  • Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

    Barcelona, 08907

  • Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid

    Valladolid, 47003

Other trials in Spain

About this study

Official title: Sapphire 3 - A Prospective, Open Label, Multi-center, Single Arm, Observational Study Designed to Evaluate the Acute Safety and Device Performance of the Sapphire 3 0.85-1.25 mm Coronary Dilatation Catheter in Predilatation of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Lesions During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

A prospective, open label, multi-center, single arm, observational study designed to evaluate the acute safety and device performance of the Sapphire 3 0.85, 1.0 and 1.25mm diameter coronary dilatation catheter in predilatation of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) lesions during percutaneous coronary intervention.

One hundred seventy (170) subjects will be enrolled with a target of one hundred fifty-three (153) evaluable subjects by the angiographic core laboratory at up to 15 clinical sites with the Sapphire 3 0.85, 1.0 and 1.25mm diameter PTCA dilatation catheter to pre-dilate CTO lesions in coronary arteries during their index procedure. All subjects will be screened according to the protocol inclusion and exclusion criteria and will be followed through study completion, which is defined as 24-hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first.

Being tested
Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheter
Keywords
Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Disease, Myocardial Ischemia, Heart Diseases, Arteriosclerosis, Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Total Occlusion, Chronic Total Occlusion of Coronary Artery
Medical subject headings
Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Disease, Myocardial Ischemia, Heart Diseases, Arteriosclerosis, Cardiovascular Diseases

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation CatheterDevice

    To pre-dilate Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) lesions in coronary arteries during the subject's index procedure with Sapphire 3 0.85mm, 1.0mm, and 1.25mm diameter Coronary Dilatation Catheters.

Study groups in NCT06358508
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation CatheterExperimentalSingle arm with investigational Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheters
Receives: Device: Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheter

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Participants With Device Procedural Success

    Device procedural success consisting of the following:

    • Successful delivery, inflation, deflation and withdrawal of the study balloon and after the guidewire has successfully crossed the CTO lesion into the true lumen of the vessel
    • No evidence of vessel perforation or dissections (Grade C or higher) related to the study balloon
    • Final TIMI flow grade of II or III at the conclusion of the PCI procedure

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

Secondary outcomes (9)
  1. Number of Participants With In-hospital Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE)

    In-hospital Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) which is a hierarchical composite of:

    • All death (cardiac and non-cardiac)
    • Myocardial infarction (MI)
    • Target Lesion Revascularization (TLR)

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  2. Number of Deaths (Cardiac and Non-Cardiac)

    All death (cardiac and non-cardiac)

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  3. Number of Participants With Myocardial Infarctions (MI)

    Myocardial Infarctions (MI)

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  4. Number of Participants With Target Lesion Revascularization (TLR)

    Target Lesion Revascularization (TLR)

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  5. Number of Participants With In-hospital stent thrombosis (ST) Within the Target Vessel

    In-hospital stent thrombosis (ST) Within the Target Vessel

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  6. Number of Participants With Clinically Significant Arrhythmias (Requiring Intervention)

    Clinically Significant Arrhythmias (Requiring Intervention)

    Measured: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

  7. Number of Participants With Absence of Sapphire 3 Study Balloon Rupture

    Absence of Sapphire 3 Study Balloon Rupture

    Measured: Peri-procedural

  8. Number of Participants That Had Improvement in the Minimum Lumen Diameter (MLD) following use of Sapphire 3 catheter (independently measured by the Angiographic Core Lab using QCA)

    Improvement in Minimum Lumen Diameter (MLD) following use of Sapphire 3 catheter (measured by QCA).

    Improvement in MLD is defined as MLD post use of Sapphire 3 as greater than MLD from baseline.

    Measured: Peri-procedural

  9. Number of Participants With Technical Success

    Technical Success defined as Achievement of TIMI grade II or greater antegrade flow in all ≥2.5-mm distal branch(es) with <30% residual stenosis of the target CTO lesion at the completion of the procedure, (independently measured by the Angiographic Core Lab using QCA).

    Measured: Peri-procedural

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Apr 2024
  2. Study start6 Nov 2024
  3. Primary completion21 Oct 2025
  4. Study completion21 Oct 2025

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
170 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06358508
Sponsor's protocol ID
VP-0786
Status last verified
Jan 2026
First submitted
5 Apr 2024
Last updated
12 Jan 2026
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Sapphire 3 Coronary Dilatation Catheter in people with Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Disease, run by OrbusNeich at 14 sites in 2 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 12 Jan 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 14 sites in United States, Spain. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Participants With Device Procedural Success (time frame: 24 hours post-procedure or hospital discharge, whichever comes first). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 12 Jan 2026.

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