Oral Sirolimus for In-Stent Restenosis

Summary

Despite recent advances in interventional cardiology including the success of drug-eluting stents in de-novo coronary lesions, the treatment of in-stent restenosis remains a challenging clinical issue. Given the efficacy of the systemic sirolimus administration to prevent neointimal hyperplasia in animal models and to halt and even reverse the progression of allograft vasculopathy, the aim of the present double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to evaluate the efficacy of a 10-day oral sirolimus treatment with two different loading regimens for the prevention of recurrent restenosis in patients with in-stent restenosis.

Timeline

Start

2001-10

Primary completion

2004-02

Completion

2004-03

Publications

• Results Hausleiter J, Kastrati A, Mehilli J, Vogeser M, Zohlnhofer D, Schuhlen H, Goos C, Pache J, Dotzer F, Pogatsa-Murray G, Dirschinger J, Heemann U, Schomig A; OSIRIS Investigators. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of oral sirolimus for restenosis prevention in patients with in-stent restenosis: the Oral Sirolimus to Inhibit Recurrent In-stent Stenosis (OSIRIS) trial. Circulation. 2004 Aug 17;110(7):790-5. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000138935.17503.35. Epub 2004 Aug 9.
• Kufner S, Hausleiter J, Ndrepepa G, Schulz S, Bruskina O, Byrne RA, Fusaro M, Kastrati A, Schomig A, Mehilli J; OSIRIS Trial Investigators. Long-term risk of adverse outcomes and new malignancies in patients treated with oral sirolimus for prevention of restenosis. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2009 Nov;2(11):1142-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.08.015.

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