NCT02080299

Protection by Remote Ischemic Preconditioning During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Protection of Heart, Brain and Kidney by Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation - a Randomized, Single-blind Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Essen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has rapidly been adopted into clinical practice, but concerns have been raised regarding periprocedural complications like e.g. myocardial injury, stroke or acute kidney injury. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) with upper limb ischemia/reperfusion provides perioperative myocardial protection in patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass surgery. The present study assesses protection of heart, brain and kidney by RIPC in patients undergoing TAVI. The study also addresses safety and clinical outcome.

Detailed description

* On the assumption of our recent data (Thielmann et al, Lancet 2013, 382(9892):597-604), we performed a power analysis, revealing an estimated enrollment of 189 patients per group. But since no true data exist regarding RIPC and TAVI, interim analysis will be performed after 50 patients per group. * After induction of conscious sedation or general anaesthesia, RIPC is accomplished by 3 cycles of 5 min inflation/5 min deflation of a blood pressure cuff around the left arm to 200 mm Hg. In the placebo group, the blood pressure cuff remains uninflated for 30 min. * Blind: study coordinators, outcome assessors, operators and treating physicians except for the attending anaesthetist. * Drugs used for conscious sedation: midazolam, remifentanil. * Drugs used for general anaesthesia: sufentanil, etomidate, rocuronium, isoflurane. * TAVI is performed by standard techniques using the balloon-expandable Sapien XT (Edwards Lifesciences Inc., Irvine, California, USA) and the next-generation Sapien 3 stent-valve bioprosthesis which replaces the Sapien XT prosthesis, when CE-approved. * Arterial blood samples are obtained prior to and after RIPC-maneuver/Placebo, after aortic valve implantation and after access site closure, for biochemical analyses focussing on ligands that have been previously implicated in conditioning protocols at various organs. A bioassay system, consisting of a Langendorff-perfused isolated heart with ischemia and reperfusion will be used. This bioassay system will be exposed to the obtained arterial plasma of the patients. * Venous blood samples are drawn before TAVI and at 1, 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours after the procedure. * Cardiac and cerebral MRI is performed in selected patients at baseline and within the first week after TAVI. * On-site follow-up at 3±3 months, 12±3 months and yearly thereafter.

Conditions

• Aortic Valve Stenosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC)	3 circles of 5 min left upper arm ischemia by inflation of a blood pressure cuff to 200 mmHg and 5 min reperfusion, preceding TAVI procedure.
PROCEDURE	Placebo	Prior to TAVI-procedure, the blood pressure cuff remains uninflated for 30 min.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2014-03-06
• Last updated: 2016-11-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany