Hybrid revascularization vs percutaneous coronary intervention: A Planning Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：该申请涉及广泛的挑战领域（04）临床研究和特定的挑战主题，04- hl -115：冠状动脉狭窄的混合冠状动脉重建术与药物洗脱支架的多血管经皮冠状动脉介入治疗（DES）。该建议是为了完成启动评估混合型冠状动脉血管重建术（HCR）有效性的关键试验所需的剩余步骤。冠状动脉疾病（CAD）的巨大和不断增加的患病率，冠状动脉旁路移植术（CABG）、经皮冠状动脉介入治疗（PCI）和药物治疗的不断创新，以及冠状动脉血管重建术的成本，都激发了人们对冠状动脉血管重建术的最佳技术和适应症的兴趣。混合冠状动脉血管重建术，联合冠脉搭桥和PCI，比单独冠脉搭桥或PCI有潜在的优势，并可能对医疗保健系统产生重大影响。如果能够为CAD提供一种新的治疗方法，它提供了持久性，但没有传统CABG的强制性创伤和延长恢复时间的特点，将是心血管医学领域的一项重大进步。虽然HCR方法在美国许多心脏中心稳步发展，但HCR的有效性和安全性取决于通过小型观察性研究获得的数据。初步观察数据表明，HCR具有广泛传播的潜力，并成为多血管CAD患者的第三种主要介入选择。然而，如果没有严格设计的临床试验，就没有足够的证据来指导这一潜在重要手术在主要患者群体中的持续传播。这项计划拨款申请将为成功实施一项大型随机试验提供支持，该试验比较HCR、多血管PCI和DES在三血管CAD患者中的有效性和安全性。该提案的研究人员建立在已经建立的心胸外科试验网络（[CTSN] (http://www.ctsurgerynet.org): nhlbi资助的10个临床中心和一个数据协调中心的网络）和其他几个HCR领域的著名临床中心的基础上。本提案的主要目标包括：(1)最终确定关键试验的设计和方案；(2)开展一项观察性研究，为关键试验设计提供信息；(3)扩大研究者、委员会和数据协调中心（DCC）的基础设施，以执行关键试验。这些活动应在18个月内达到高潮，为关键试验申请赠款，该试验可在该规划阶段之后立即开始。拟议的临床试验结果将从根本上改变冠状动脉疾病患者的管理。这项试验将为全国众多临床中心和DCC的教员和协调员提供支持，将提供证据，指导和改进治疗决策，并通过替代治疗方案的成本效益数据优化医疗保健资源的利用。然而，拟议研究的经济影响远不止提高治疗仍在扩大的疾病人口的有效性和效率。冠状动脉疾病治疗是一个具有高度创新性的领域。试验产生的知识将反馈给由大学和工业公司的科学家、工程师和临床医生组成的研发企业，使他们能够开发新技术并改进现有的CAD治疗技术。混合型冠状动脉血管重建术（HCR）作为一种新的、经过科学验证的冠心病治疗方法，将是心血管医学的重大进步，并对公众健康产生重大影响。此外，HCR很可能弥合心脏病专家和心脏外科医生在治疗理念和方法上的分歧。这些专业之间的合作而不是竞争最终将使患者、医院、付款人和医疗保健提供者受益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application addresses broad Challenge Area (04) Clinical Research and specific Challenge Topic, 04-HL-115: Treatment of stenosed coronary arteries with hybrid coronary revascularization versus multi-vessel percutaneous coronary intervention with drug eluting stents (DES). This proposal is for a planning grant to complete the remaining steps needed to start a pivotal trial evaluating the effectiveness of Hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR). The enormous and increasing prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), ongoing innovation in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and medical therapy, as well as the costs of revascularization have stimulated rising interest in optimal techniques and indications for coronary revascularization. Hybrid coronary revascularization, which combines CABG and PCI, offers potential advantages beyond CABG or PCI alone, and could have a major impact on the health care system. The ability to deliver a new therapy for CAD that provides durability, but without the obligatory trauma and prolonged recovery time characteristic of conventional CABG, would be a major advance in the field of cardiovascular medicine. While the HCR approach has been steadily growing in many heart centers in the US, the efficacy and safety of HCR rests upon data obtained through small observational studies. Preliminary observational data suggest that HCR has the potential to disseminate widely and become the third major interventional alternative for patients with multi-vessel CAD. However, without a rigorously designed clinical trial there is insufficient evidence to guide ongoing dissemination of this potentially important procedure for a major patient population. This planning grant application will provide the support for the organization of activities critical for the successful implementation of a large-scale randomized trial comparing the effectiveness and safety of HCR versus multi-vessel PCI with DES in patients with three-vessel CAD. The investigators of this proposal build on the already established infrastructure of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network ([CTSN] (http://www.ctsurgerynet.org): an NHLBI-funded Network of 10 clinical centers and a Data Coordinating Center] and several additional prominent clinical centers in the field of HCR. The key aims of this proposal include: (1) Finalizing the design and protocol for the pivotal trial, (2) Conducting an observational study that will inform the pivotal trial design, and (3) Expanding the infrastructure of investigators, committees and the data coordinating center (DCC) to execute the pivotal trial. These activities should culminate within 18 months in a grant application for the pivotal trial, which could start immediately following this planning phase. The results of the proposed clinical trial will fundamentally change the management of coronary artery disease patients. This trial, which will support faculty and coordinators in numerous clinical centers across the country and at the DCC, will provide evidence to guide and improve treatment decisions and optimize utilization of health care resources through data on the cost-effectiveness of alternative treatment options. The economic impact of the proposed research, however, is much broader than improving the effectiveness and efficiency of treating the still expanding disease population. Coronary artery disease therapeutics is a field with a high degree of innovation. The knowledge generated by the trial will provide feedback to an R&D enterprise of scientists, engineers, and clinicians in universities and industrial firms, which will allow them to develop new technologies and refine existing ones for the treatment of CAD. The ability to deliver hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) as a new, scientifically-validated approach for CAD would be a major advance in cardiovascular medicine and a major impact on public health. Moreover, HCR is likely to bridge the divide in treatment philosophies and approaches that exist between cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. Collaboration rather than competition between these specialties will ultimately benefit patients, hospitals, payers and healthcare providers.