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CompletedNCT05818098Updated Aug 10, 2026

Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy System in Patients With Coronary Artery Calcification (VIGOUR)

An interventional study of Intravascular Lithotripsy System of Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm in Coronary Artery Calcification, sponsored by Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm MedTech Co., Ltd.. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 85 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-10.

Sponsored by Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm MedTech Co., Ltd. (part of MicroPort Scientific Corporation) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
189
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 85 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a prospective and multicenter clinical investigation aiming to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of coronary intravascular lithotripsy system for the treatment of patients with coronary calcification.

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This trial is a prospective and multicenter clinical trial. 189 subjects are expected to be recruited in 20 research centers in China.

  1. All subjects with coronary calcified lesions participating in this clinical study must have only one lesion length of no more than 40 mm and located in an coronary artery with a diameter of ≥ 2.00 mm but ≤ 4.00 mm.
  2. All subjects receive clinical follow-up during hospitalization, 30 days and 6 months after surgery.
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Conditions studied

  • Coronary Artery Calcification

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Keywords

  • calcification
  • coronary artery
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In context

Calcinosis

91 studies on the registry are indexed under Calcinosis; 19 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 189 is above the median of 70 across 56 interventional studies indexed under Calcinosis.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm MedTech Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 85 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Clinical Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects aged between 18 and 85.
  2. Subjects who can undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
  3. Subjects with asymptomatic evidence of ischemia, stable or unstable angina pectoris, or old myocardial infarction.
  4. (LVEF) ≥30% as measured by echocardiography for subjects within 6 months before enrollment. (In case of multiple LVEF results, the data closest to the baseline procedure was taken.)
  5. Subjects who are able to understand the purpose of the trial, participate voluntarily or by proxy and indicate by signing the form that they recognize the risks and benefits described in the informed consent document and are willing to undergo clinical follow-up.

Angiography Inclusion Criteria:

  1. There is only one target lesion that needs to be treated.
  2. The target lesion must be located in a de novo native coronary artery with a reference vessel diameter (RVD) ≥2.00 mm to ≤4.00 mm as visually measured.
  3. The target lesion angiography shows a stenosis rate ranging from ≥70% (visually measured) or ≥50% to \<70% with symptoms of ischemia.

    Ischemic symptoms were defined as any of the following:

    • Exercise stress test positive
    • Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) ≤ 0.8 or iFR \< 0.9
    • Minimum lumen area (MLA) ≤ 4.0 mm2 by IVUS or OCT
  4. The target lesion length must be less than 40 mm (visually measured).
  5. The target lesion must meet one of the following :

    • During angiography, clear hyperdense opacities can be observed on both sides of the arterial wall when the heart pulsates and does not pulsate
    • Presence of calcium of ≥270°at one cross-section via IVUS or OCT
  6. Target lesion TIMI flow 3 prior to the use of the test device (at baseline or after balloon pre-dilatation).
  7. The lesion that 0.014 "guidewire can cross.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

General Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects who present with AMI recently (within 7 days)
  2. Subjects who have hemodynamic instability or a severe reduction in activity tolerance ( cardiac function Grade Ⅲ, Ⅳ).
  3. Subjects who have an intra-cardiac thrombus as shown by echocardiography within 30 days before enrollment.
  4. Subjects who have already received or are waiting for organ transplantation.
  5. Subjects who are receiving or scheduled to receive chemotherapy within 30 days before or after the baseline procedure.
  6. Subjects who have a count \< 60 x 10\^9/L or > 750 x 10\^9/L or other hemorrhagic diathesis, coagulation dysfunction, blood transfusion resistance.
  7. Subjects who have severe hepatic dysfunction (transaminases more than 3 times the ).
  8. Subjects who have chronic renal failure and a serum creatinine level > 2.5 mg/Dl (or 221µmol/L).
  9. Subjects who have active peptic ulcer diseases or active gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding within 6 months before enrollment.
  10. Subjects who are unable to receive dual antiplatelet therapy for at least 6 months due to various reasons.
  11. Subjects who experience cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or (TIA) within the past six months, or have permanent neurological defects that may cause nonconformity with the protocol.
  12. Subjects who plan to undergo rotational atherectomy, cutting balloon, scored balloon, or laser coronary atherectomy during the baseline procedure.
  13. Subjects who have received stent placement for target vessel (including collateral branches) within 12 months prior to the baseline procedure.
  14. Subjects who have received any type of PCI treatment for non-target vessels within 24 hours prior to the baseline procedure.
  15. Subjects who are scheduled to receive a cardiac intervention or cardiac surgery within 30 days of the index procedure.
  16. Subjects who have been treated with intracoronary brachytherapy at any time previously.
  17. Subjects who are allergic to stent system or concomitant drugs required in the protocol (such as everolimus, sirolimus, or structure-related compounds; fluorine-containing polymers; antiplatelet agents such as aspirin, ticagrelor, or thienopyridines; contrast agent; narcotics).
  18. Subjects with other serious medical conditions (such as cancer) may shorten their to less than 12 months.
  19. Subjects who plan to undergo a procedure that may lead to non-conformity with the protocol or confusion in data interpretation.
  20. Subjects who are participating in another investigational drug or device clinical trial in which the primary endpoint is still not reached, or intend to participate in another investigational drug or device clinical trial within 6 months after baseline procedure.
  21. Pregnant or breast-feeding subjects (women who may become pregnant must receive a pregnancy test within seven days prior to the baseline procedure).
  22. Subjects who are found to have poor compliance and unable to complete the trial as required as judged by the investigators.

Angiography Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects with target lesions meet the following criteria:

    • Target lesions located within or involving 5 mm of the ostium of the left and right main coronary arteries (LAD/LCX/RCA);
    • Target lesions that involve bifurcation lesions (bifurcation lesion ostial diameter stenosis greater than 30%);
    • Entering through a great saphenous vein graft or an artery graft;
    • Target lesions with thrombosis or suspected thrombosis;
    • Target vessel with C-F type dissection according to NHLBI classification following pre-procedure angiography or guidewire crossing;
    • In-stent restenosis involved in target lesions.
  2. Subjects with unprotected left main coronary artery diseases (diameter stenosis >30%).
  3. Subjects with other lesions at target vessels (diameter stenosis >50%).
  4. The target vessel (including collateral) near the target lesion or within 10 mm (visually) from the distal end of the target lesion has received stent implantation at any time before baseline surgery.
  5. Subjects with lesions that guide wire cannot pass through or retrieve due to various reasons (such as serious distortion at the proximal target vessel).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
189 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intravascular Lithotripsy System

    Subjects in experimental group will be treated with the Intravascular Lithotripsy System manufactured by Shanghai Microport Rhythm Co. Ltd.

    Device: Intravascular Lithotripsy System of Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm

Interventions

  • DeviceIntravascular Lithotripsy System of Shanghai MicroPort Rhythm

    The Intravascular Lithotripsy System is a single-use, sterile, disposable balloon angioplasty catheter that contains a series of unfocused, electrohydraulic lithotripsy emitters, which convert electrical energy into transient acoustic circumferential pressure pulses that disrupt both superficial and deep calcium within vascular plaque.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Procedure success rate

    Procedure success is defined as stent implantation with residual diameter stenosis ≤30% and no major adverse cardiac events (MACE) during hospitalization (up to 7 days post-procedure). MACE is defined as the composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization.

    Time frame: During hospitalization (up to 7 days after procedure)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Device success rate

    Device success is defined as delivery of the IVL catheter across the target lesion and delivery of lithotripsy without serious angiographic complications immediately after IVL.

    Time frame: Baseline procedure

  2. Angiographic success rate

    Angiographic success is defined as stent delivery with ≤30% residual stenosis and without serious angiographic complications.

    Time frame: Baseline procedure

  3. MACE freedom rate at 30 days after the index procedure

    MACE is defined as a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction\[MI\], and target vessel revascularization \[TVR\]. (Periprocedural MI is defined as peak post-PCI CK-MB level \>3 x the upper limit of normal \[ULN\], both non-Q wave myocardial infarction or Q-wave myocardial infarction.)

    Time frame: within 30 days of baseline procedure

  4. Procedure-related serious complications

    Procedure-related serious complications included severe dissection (Type D-F, according to NHLBI classification system), perforation, abrupt closure, and persistent slow flow/no-reflow during the baseline procedure.

    Time frame: Baseline procedure

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Study locations

1 site
  • The Second Affliated Hospital Ha'erbin Medical University
    Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Chen T, Zhao J, He Y, Fang C, Han X, Luan B, Wang Y, Chen M, Yuan Z, Tong Q, Gao Y, Gu G, Li X, Yang Y, Yu H, Ma L, Liu H, Xu M, Zhang D, Yang G, Zhang S, Han J, Zhang M, Jia H, Hou J, Yu B. Safety and Efficacy of Intravascular Lithotripsy System: A Prospective, Multicenter Clinical Trial (The VIGOUR Study). Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Dec;106(7):3599-3608. doi: 10.1002/ccd.70248. Epub 2025 Oct 12. PubMed 41077810 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 10, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05818098
Collaborators
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Huai'an First People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, First Affiliated Hospital Xi'an Jiaotong University, West China Hospital, Wuhan Central Hospital, First Hospital of China Medical University, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Hebei Provincial People's Hospital, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital, Shengjing Hospital, Three Gorges Hospital of Chongqing University, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital, Xiamen University, The People's Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shanghai East Hospital, Linfen No.4 People's Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 18, 2023
Start date
Mar 29, 2023
Primary completion
Sep 15, 2023
Completion
Sep 15, 2023
Last update
Aug 10, 2026

Study contacts

Bo Yu, M.D.
principal investigator · The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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