2025-522560-32-01RecruitingPhase 4
A trial investigating partial withdrawal of heart failure therapy in patients with heart failure in remission.
A prospective, randomized, controlled clinical pilot trial investigating the partial down-titration of guideline-directed medical therapy in patients with heart failure in remission
Source: EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu) · Last updated 9 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To investigate the safety and feasibility of heart failure therapy down-titration versus therapy continuation in patients with heart failure in remission.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 100 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 11 Aug 2025
- Start date
- 1 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- EU CT number
- 2025-522560-32-01
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 4
- Planned participants: 100
- 3 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Recent major cardiovascular events such as an acute coronary syndrome, CABG, stroke or TIA in the 90 days before screening
- Any sustained ventricular arrythmias within 6 months prior to screening
Other illness
- Albuminuric chronic kidney disease
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter with a resting heart rate >110 beats per minute
- Patients with a cardiac resynchronization therapy device who have < 98% biventricular pacing during screening
- Any untreated valvular heart disease of moderate or greater severity during screening.
Age
- Presence of any other disease with a life expectancy of < 2 years.
Other
- Pregnant or lactating women.
Who the study is looking for
- Adults aged ≥ 18 years
- Heart failure in remission, defined as heart failure with an improved ejection fraction to an LVEF above 50%, with normalized LV volumes, an NT-proBNP ≤ 250 pg/mL, normal functional capacity, and clinical stability
- Patients must receive at least 3 HF therapies (ACEi/ARB/ARNI, BB, and MRA or SGLT2i) for HF, consistent with international HF guidelines. Each therapy must have been titrated to the maximally tolerated dose, stable for at least 6 months prior to screening
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg | Genk | Belgium | Recruiting |
| JESSA Ziekenhuis | Hasselt | Belgium | Recruiting |
| AZ Turnhout | Turnhout | Belgium | Recruiting |
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