Arroyo, Diego Togni, Mario Puricel, Serban Baeriswyl, Gérard Lehmann, Sonja Corpataux, Noé Villeneuve, Hélène Boute, Estelle Stauffer, Jean-Christophe Goy, Jean-Jacques Cook, Stéphane 2014-01-07 Background: Second-generation everolimus-eluting stents (EES) and third generation biolimus-eluting stents (BES) have been shown to be superior to first-generation paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) and second-generation sirolimus-eluting stents (SES). However, neointimal proliferation and very late stent thrombosis is still an unresolved issue of drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation overall. The Absorb™ (Abbott Vascular, Abbott Park, IL, USA) is the first CE approved DES with a bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) thought to reduce long-term complication rates. The EVERBIO II trial was set up to compare the BVS safety and efficacy with both EES and BES in all patients viable for inclusion.Methods/Design: The EVERBIO II trial is a single-center, assessor-blinded, randomized trial. The study population consists of all patients aged ≥18 years old undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Exclusion criterion is where the lesion cannot be treated with BVS (reference vessel diameter >4.0 mm). A total of 240 patients will be enrolled and randomly assigned into 3 groups of 80 with either BVS, EES or BES implantation. All patients will undergo a follow-up angiography study at 9 months. Clinical follow-up for up to 5 years will be conducted by telephone. The primary endpoint is in-segment late lumen loss at 9 months measured by quantitative coronary angiography. Secondary endpoints are patient-oriented major adverse cardiac event (MACE) (death, myocardial infarction and target-vessel revascularization), device-oriented MACE (cardiac death, myocardial infarction and target-lesion revascularization), stent thrombosis according to ARC and binary restenosis at follow-up 12 months angiography.Discussion: EVERBIO II is an independent, randomized study, aiming to compare the clinical efficacy, angiographic outcomes and safety of BVS, EES and BES in all comer patients.Trial registration: The trial listed in clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01711931. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/303617 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/303617/files/coo_cee.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/1745-6215-15-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Trials. - 2014, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 9 Biolimus-eluting stent Bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) Coronary artery disease Drug-eluting stent Everolimus-eluting stent Late lumen loss Percutaneous coronary intervention info:eu-repo/classification/udc/61 Comparison of everolimus-eluting and biolimus-eluting coronary stents with everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold: study protocol of the randomized controlled EVERBIO II trial http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501