BACKGROUND The long- term clinical outcomes of
percutaneous coronary intervention can be improved by replacing metallic
drug eluting stents with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds. The MeRes-1 Extend trial was designed to assess the
safety and
efficacy of a novel thin-strut MeRes100 bioresorbable vascular scaffold (Meril
Life Sci ences) in a diverse
patient population .
METHODS The MeRes-1 Extend was a prospective, multicenter, sin gle-
arm study that enrolled 64
patients in
Spain , Macedonia,
Brazil ,
South Africa ,
Malaysia , and
Indonesia .
Major adverse cardiac events , consisting of
cardiac death ,
myocardial infarction , and
ischemia driven target lesion revascularisation, were the
safety endpoint. At baseline and 6-month follow-up, quantitative
coronary angiography and
optical coherence tomography were performed. RESULTS Of all
patients enrolled (mean age 58.30 9.02 years), 76.56% had
hypertension , 26.56% had
diabetes mellitus , 48.44% had
dyslipidemia , and 28.13% had a previous
myocardial infarction ; 68.75% of
patients presented with
stable angina , 9.38% with
unstable angina , and 21.88% with silent
ischemia . A total of 69 target lesions (mean length 14.37 5.89 mm) were detected of which 71.01% were type B2/C. Procedural and
device success were achieved in 64 and 62
patients , respectively.
Major adverse cardiac events rate was reported in 1
patient (1.61%) in the form of
ischemia -driven target lesion revascularization; there were no cases of
myocardial infarction ,
car diac
death , or scaffold
thrombosis . At 6-month angiographic follow-up (n » 32), mean in-scaffold late lumen loss was 0.18 0.31 mm.
Optical coherence tomography analysis (n » 21) showed 97.95 3.69% strut coverage and mean scaffold area of 7.56 1.79 mm2, with no strut malapposition. Updated data
will be presented during Transcatheter Cardiovascular
Therapeutics 2020 annual meeting. CONCLUSION Two-year clinical and 6-month imaging outcomes of MeRes-1 Extend trial demonstrated favorable
safety and
efficacy of novel thin-strut MeRes100
sirolimus -eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffolds in
patients with de novo
coronary artery lesions.