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Tracking recovery and quality of life after transcatheter heart valve replacement

Observes how people with aortic stenosis fare after a heart valve replaced through a catheter.

Key facts

Who runs it
Sheba Medical Center
Where
Jerusalem, Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv, IsraelSee the 5 sites
Trial code
Registry title
Functional and Quality of Life Improvement Following Transcatheter Heart Valve Implantation
Status
Recruiting
People taking part
100 people, planned
Started
Nov 2013
Expected to end
Nov 2030
Type of study
Observational
Record updated
29 November 2023

Who can take part

AI summary

From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.

The trial is looking for adults chosen to have a heart valve replaced through a thin tube (transcatheter), in the aortic or mitral valve. It follows how they do over time.

Age
18 Years to 110 Years
Sex
All sexes can join.
Disease stage
People selected for transcatheter heart valve replacement, for example for aortic stenosis (narrowed aortic valve).

Main reasons for not taking part

  • Not able to sign written informed consent
  • Pregnancy
  • Breastfeeding

The registry criteria, word for word

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Who can take part

  • Subject selected for transcatheter heart valve replacement
  • Signed informed consent to participate in the study

Who cannot take part

  • Pregnancy or breast feeding (women of childbearing potential will have a serum or urine pregnancy test)
  • Inability to sign written informed consent

Check if you might fit

Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.

  • Are you between 18 and 110 years old?

Where in Israel

  • Hadassah medical CenterJerusalem, IsraelContact: Gideon PerlmanTaking people
  • Shaarei Zedek amedical CenterJerusalem, IsraelContact: Elad AsherTaking people
  • Rabin Medical CenterPetah Tikva, IsraelContact: Alon BarsheshetTaking people
  • Sheba medical centerRamat Gan, IsraelContact: Israel Barbash, MDTaking people
  • Tel Aviv Medical CenterTel Aviv, IsraelContact: Arik SteinvilTaking people

About the trial

What the trial wants to find out

The objective is to observe trends in patient characteristics and outcomes after aortic or mitral transcatheter heart valve replacement over time.

Questions to ask the study team

  1. How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
  2. Are travel costs paid?
  3. Can I keep my own doctor?
  4. What happens if I want to stop?

Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations

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Data and sources

Registry record
Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Official title
Functional and Quality of Life Improvement Following Transcatheter Heart Valve Implantation
Plain-language title
Tracking recovery and quality of life after transcatheter heart valve replacementGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
Fit questions
Built from NCT02023060, who can take part
Record updated
29 November 2023