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AGENT DCB STANCE: Safety and Effectiveness Study of AGENT Drug-Coated Balloon Compared to Standard of Care Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Treatment for de Novo Coronary Lesions

An interventional study of Drug Eluting Balloon and Drug eluting stent in Coronary Arterial Disease (CAD) and de Novo Lesions in Native Coronary Arteries, sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation. Recruiting at 69 sites in 9 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-29.

Sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1,616
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

AGENT DCB STANCE is a prospective, multicenter, open-label, 1:1 randomized controlled study designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of a treatment strategy with the AGENT Drug-Coated Balloon compared to standard of care percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) treatment with drug eluting stent (DES) and/or balloon angioplasty in patients with de novo coronary lesions.

Subjects must have a de novo target lesion located in a native coronary artery.

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The study will also contain a PK sub study and an IVUS sub study.

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Conditions studied

  • Coronary Arterial Disease (CAD)
  • de Novo Lesions in Native Coronary Arteries

Keywords

  • Drug Coated Balloon
  • de novo
  • 97279374
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Clinical Inclusion Criteria:

  • Subject must be at least 18 years of age.
  • Subject (or legal guardian) understands the trial requirements and the treatment procedures and provides written informed consent before any trial-specific tests or procedures are performed.
  • Subject is eligible for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
  • Subject is willing to comply with all protocol-required follow-up evaluation.
  • Women of child-bearing potential must agree to use a reliable method of contraception from the time of screening through 12 months after the index procedure.

Angiographic Inclusion Criteria:

  • Target lesion is a de novo lesion located in a native coronary artery.
  • Target lesion must have visually estimated stenosis > 50% and \< 100% in symptomatic subjects (>70% and \<100% in asymptomatic subjects) prior to lesion pre-dilation.
  • Target lesion must be successfully pre-dilated.
  • If a non-target lesion is treated, it must be treated first and must be deemed a success.

Clinical Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subject has other serious medical illness (e.g. cancer, congestive heart failure) that may reduce life expectancy to less than 12 months.
  • Subject has current problems with substance abuse (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, heroin, etc.) as assessed by Investigator.
  • Subject has planned procedure that may cause non-compliance with the protocol or confound data interpretation.
  • Subject is participating in another investigational drug or device clinical study that has not reached its primary endpoint.
  • Subject intends to participate in another investigational drug or device clinical study within 12 months after the index procedure.
  • Subject is a woman who is pregnant or nursing. A pregnancy test must be performed within 7 days prior to the index procedure, except for women who definitely do not have child-bearing potential.
  • Subject has left ventricular ejection fraction known to be \< 30% within the last 12 months.
  • Subject had PCI or other coronary interventions within the last 3 days.
  • Subject has planned PCI or CABG after the index procedure.
  • Subject had STEMI or QWMI \<72h prior to the index procedure.
  • Subject presents with ACS and rising biomarkers, or ongoing chest pain or is hemodynamically unstable.
  • Subject has cardiogenic shock (SBP \< 80 mmHg requiring inotropes, IABP or fluid support).
  • Subject has history (within 6 months prior to the index procedure) of New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure.
  • Subject is considered not able to tolerate at least 30 seconds of coronary occlusion of the target lesion.
  • Subject has known allergy to paclitaxel or other components of the used medical devices.
  • Subject has known hypersensitivity or contraindication to contrast dye that in the opinion of the investigator cannot be adequately pre-medicated.
  • Subject has intolerance to antiplatelet drugs, anticoagulants required for procedure.
  • Subject has platelet count \< 100k/mm3 (risk of bleeding) or > 700k/mm3.
  • Subject with renal insufficiency (creatinine ≥2.0 mg/dl) or failure (dialysis dependent).
  • Subject has previous or planned (within 30 days) TAVR.
  • Previous cardiac transplant.

Angiographic Exclusion Criteria:

  • In-stent restenosis.
  • Target lesion is located within a saphenous vein or arterial graft.
  • Target lesion is a total occlusion or has evidence of thrombus present in the target vessel.
  • Target lesion is severely calcified by angiography or has > 270° calcium arc on intravascular imaging or requires atherectomy or requires intravascular lithotripsy.
  • Subject has unprotected left main coronary artery disease (>50% diameter stenosis) or three-vessel coronary disease requiring revascularization of all 3 vessels.
  • Subject with planned treatment of lesion involving aortic ostial location \<3 mm from aorta.
  • Target Lesion is in a previously jailed side branch.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
1,616 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Small Vessel - Test

    Small vessel subjects treated with AGENT DCB

    Device: Drug Eluting Balloon

  • Active comparator
    Small Vessel - Control

    Small vessel subjects treated with drug eluting stent

    Device: Drug eluting stent

  • Experimental
    Bifurcation - Test

    Bifurcation subjects with side branches treated with AGENT DCB

    Device: Drug Eluting Balloon

  • Active comparator
    Bifurcation - Control

    Bifurcation subjects with side branches treated with drug eluting stent or plain old balloon angioplasty

    Device: Drug eluting stent · Procedure: Plain old balloon angioplasty

  • Experimental
    Long Lesion - Test

    Long lesion subjects treated with AGENT DCB

    Device: Drug Eluting Balloon

  • Active comparator
    Long Lesion - Control

    Long lesion subjects treated with drug eluting stent

    Device: Drug eluting stent

  • Experimental
    Overall - Test

    All subjects treated with AGENT DCB

    Device: Drug Eluting Balloon

  • Active comparator
    Overall - Control

    All subjects treated with standard of care drug eluting stent and/or POBA

    Device: Drug eluting stent · Procedure: Plain old balloon angioplasty

Interventions

  • DeviceDrug Eluting Balloon

    AGENT DCB

    Also known as: DCB

  • DeviceDrug eluting stent

    Any commercially available DES used for standard of care.

    Also known as: DES

  • ProcedurePlain old balloon angioplasty

    Bifurcation side branch - POBA

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Target Lesion Failure (TLF) rate

    Target Lesion Failure (TLF) rate - defined as any ischemia-driven revascularization of the target lesion (TLR), myocardial infarction (MI, Q-wave and non-Q-wave) related to the target vessel, or cardiac death. The MI events include the Peri-Procedural MI (PPMI) according to the SCAI MI definition and the spontaneous MI according to the 4th Universal MI definition.

    Time frame: 12-Month

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Study locations

66 of 69 sites recruiting
  • St. Bernard's Medical Center
    Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401, United States
    Recruiting
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital
    La Jolla, California 92037, United States
    Recruiting
  • USC Medical Center
    Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
    Recruiting
  • Cedars - Sinai Medical Center
    Los Angeles, California 90048, United States
    Recruiting
  • University of California San Francisco
    San Francisco, California 94143, United States
    Recruiting
  • Stanford University Medical Center
    Stanford, California 94305, United States
    Recruiting
  • Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center
    Thousand Oaks, California 91360, United States
    Recruiting
  • South Denver Cardiology Associates, PC
    Littleton, Colorado 80120, United States
    Recruiting
  • The Cardiac and Vascular Institute Research Foundation
    Gainesville, Florida 32605, United States
    Recruiting
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
    Miami Beach, Florida 33140, United States
    Recruiting
  • Piedmont Hospital
    Atlanta, Georgia 30309, United States
    Recruiting
  • Emory University Hospital
    Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
    Recruiting
  • Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
    Marietta, Georgia 30060, United States
    Recruiting
  • Northwestern University
    Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
    Recruiting
  • Endeavor Health
    Glenview, Illinois 60026, United States
    Recruiting
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
    Recruiting
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
    Recruiting
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
    Recruiting
  • University of Michigan Hospitals
    Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
    Recruiting
  • Henry Ford Hospital
    Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
    Recruiting
  • Corewell Health
    Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503, United States
    Recruiting
  • Mercy Hospital
    Coon Rapids, Minnesota 55433, United States
    Recruiting
  • St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
    Kansas City, Missouri 64111, United States
    Recruiting
  • NYU Langone Hospital
    Brooklyn, New York 11220, United States
    Recruiting
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
    New York, New York 10029, United States
    Recruiting
  • Columbia University Medical Center
    New York, New York 10032, United States
    Recruiting
  • St. Francis Hospital
    Roslyn, New York 11576, United States
    Recruiting
  • Montefiore Medical Center
    The Bronx, New York 10467, United States
    Recruiting
  • Carolinas Medical Center
    Charlotte, North Carolina 28204, United States
    Recruiting
  • Lindner Center for Research and Education at Christ Hospital
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45219, United States
    Recruiting
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Cleveland, Ohio 44195, United States
    Recruiting
  • Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital
    Columbus, Ohio 43214, United States
    Recruiting
  • Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
    Portland, Oregon 97225, United States
    Recruiting
  • UPMC Pinnacle
    Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17050, United States
    Recruiting
  • York Hospital
    York, Pennsylvania 17403, United States
    Recruiting
  • Rhode Island Hospital
    Providence, Rhode Island 02903, United States
    Recruiting
  • Prisma Health Richland Hospital
    Columbia, South Carolina 29203, United States
    Recruiting
  • Heart Hospital of Austin
    Austin, Texas 78705, United States
    Withdrawn
  • Baylor Heart & Vascular Hospital
    Dallas, Texas 75226, United States
    Recruiting
  • The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
    Recruiting
  • Vital Heart and Vein
    Humble, Texas 77338, United States
    Recruiting
  • The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano
    Plano, Texas 75093, United States
    Recruiting
  • Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio dba Methodist Hospital
    San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
    Recruiting
  • University of Virginia Medical Center
    Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States
    Recruiting
  • Inova Fairfax Hospital
    Falls Church, Virginia 22042, United States
    Recruiting
  • Overlake Hospital Medical Center
    Bellevue, Washington 98004, United States
    Recruiting
  • Charleston Area Medical Center
    Charleston, West Virginia 25304, United States
    Recruiting
  • The Prince Charles Hospital
    Chermside, Queensland 4032, Australia
    Not yet recruiting
  • Monash Medical Centre
    Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
    Recruiting
  • Beijing Anzhen Hospital of the Capital University of Medical Sciences
    Beijing, Beijing Municipality 100000, China
    Recruiting
  • Fuwai Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
    Beijin, Beijin 100000, China
    Recruiting
  • The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
    Guangzhou, Guangzhou 510080, China
    Recruiting
  • Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital
    Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China
    Recruiting
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Xi'an, 710061, China
    Recruiting
  • Cellitinnen Krankenhaus St. Vinzenz
    Cologne, 50733, Germany
    Recruiting
  • MEDICLIN Herzzentrum Lahr
    Lahr, 77933, Germany
    Withdrawn
  • Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder
    Trier, 54292, Germany
    Recruiting
  • Mater Private Hospital Cork
    Cork, T12 K199, Ireland
    Recruiting
  • Mater Private Hospital
    Dublin, D07 RD8P, Ireland
    Recruiting
  • Galway University Hospital
    Galway, H91 YR71, Ireland
    Recruiting
  • Medical Corporation Sapporo Heart Center Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic
    Sapporo, Hokkaido 007-0849, Japan
    Recruiting
  • Kitasato University Hospital
    Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0373, Japan
    Recruiting
  • Kyorin University Hospital
    Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan
    Recruiting
  • Chikamori Hospital
    Kochi, 780-8522, Japan
    Recruiting
  • Auckland City Hospital
    Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
    Recruiting
  • Samsung Medical Center
    Seoul, 06351, South Korea
    Recruiting
  • Hospital Universitario de La Princesa
    Madrid, 28006, Spain
    Recruiting
  • Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe
    Valencia, 46026, Spain
    Recruiting
  • Clínico de Valladolid
    Valladolid, 47012, Spain
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — The data and study protocol for this clinical trial may be made available to other researchers in accordance with the Boston Scientific Data Sharing Policy (http://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/data-sharing-requests.html)

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06959524
Lead sponsor
Boston Scientific Corporation
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 6, 2025
Start date
Aug 21, 2025
Primary completion
Mar 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2032 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 29, 2026

Study contacts

Beth Lawson
Contact
beth.lawson@bsci.com
508-683-6560
Kim Pena-Trast
Contact
kim.pena-trast@bsci.com
904-314-4269
David Kandzari
principal investigator · Piedmont Heart Institute
Margaret McEntegart
principal investigator · NYPH/CUIMC

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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