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Submitted on August 23, 2001
Revised on June 12, 2002
Accepted on June 12, 2002

Randomized Trial of 90Sr/90Y ß-Radiation Versus Placebo Control for Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis

Jeffrey J. Popma MD*, Mohan Suntharalingam MD, Alexandra J. Lansky MD, Richard R. Heuser MD, Burton Speiser MD, Paul S. Teirstein MD, Vincent Massullo MD, Theodore Bass MD, Randall Henderson MD, Sigmund Silber MD, Peter von Rottkay MD, Raoul Bonan MD, Kalon K.L. Ho MD, Alison Osattin MPH, Richard E. Kuntz MD, and for the Stents And Radiation Therapy (START) Investigators

From Brigham and Women's Hospital (J.J.P., R.E.K.), Boston, Mass; University of Maryland (M.S.), Baltimore, Md; Lenox Hill Hospital (A.J.L.), New York, NY; Phoenix Heart Center (R.R.H., B.S.), Phoenix, Ariz; Scripps Clinic (P.S.T., V.M.), La Jolla, Calif; University of Florida (T.B., R.H.), Jacksonville; Dr. Mueller Hospital (S.S., P.v.R.), Munich, Germany; Montreal Heart Institute (R.B.), Montreal, Canada; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (K.K.L.H.), Boston, Mass; and Harvard Clinical Research Institute (J.J.P., A.O., R.E.K.), Boston, Mass.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jpopma{at}partners.org.

Background—After conventional treatment of in-stent restenosis, the incidence of recurrent clinical restenosis may approach 40%. We report the first multicenter, blinded, and randomized trial of intracoronary radiation with the use of a 90Sr/90Y ß-source for the treatment of in-stent restenosis.

Methods and Results—After successful catheter-based treatment of in-stent restenosis, 476 patients were randomly assigned to receive an intracoronary catheter containing either 90Sr/90Y (n=244) or placebo (n=232) sources. The prescribed dose 2 mm from the center of the source was 18.4 Gy for vessels between 2.70 and 3.35 mm in diameter and 23.0 Gy for vessels between 3.36 and 4.0 mm. The primary end point, ie, clinically driven target-vessel revascularization by 8 months, was observed in 56 (26.8%) of the patients assigned to placebo and 39 (17.0%) of the patients assigned to radiation (P=0.015). The incidence of the composite including death, myocardial infarction, and target-vessel revascularization was observed in 60 (28.7%) of the patients assigned to placebo and 44 (19.1%) of the patients assigned to radiation (P=0.024). Binary 8-month angiographic restenosis (>=50% diameter stenosis) within the entire segment treated with radiation was reduced from 45.2% in the placebo-treated patients to 28.8% in the 90Sr/90Y-treated patients (P=0.001). Stent thromboses occurred in 1 patient assigned to placebo <24 hours after the procedure and in 1 patient assigned to 90Sr/90Y at day 244.

Conclusions—The results of this study demonstrated that ß-radiation using 90Sr/90Y is both safe and effective for preventing recurrence in patients with in-stent restenosis.


Key words: restenosis • stents • angioplasty • trials




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