Coronary disease & ACSTrial design
Intravascular ultrasound guidance for complex high-risk indicated procedures: The intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) CHIP trial study design
- multicenter, international, event-driven, randomized superiority trial
- study design
- 37 European sites
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing complex high-risk indicated procedures (percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI))planned enrolment (patients will be enrolled)
- Participants
- 2,020 patients
- Planned comparison
- IVUS-guided PCI with angio-guided PCI during complex high-risk indicated procedures
- Primary endpoint
- target vessel failure, defined as a composite of cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction, or clinically indicated target vessel revascularization
No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.
Original publication
Intravascular ultrasound guidance for complex high-risk indicated procedures: The IVUS CHIP trial study design. Am Heart J. Published 3 January 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2026.107339
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it