NCT03022851Completed
The Prophet Trial -Pilot Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Prospective, Non-randomized, Pilot Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to investigate safety and efficacy of Occlutech® AFR device in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension (PH).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 32 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Jan 2017
- Start date
- 19 Jul 2017
- Primary completion date
- 8 Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Occlutech International AB
- NCT number
- NCT03022851
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 32
- From 19 Jul 2017 to the primary completion date, 8 Jan 2024
- 12 sites in 3 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Participation in other medical trials shorter than 30 days before the intended AFR implantation procedure
- Thickness of atrial septum \> 12mm OR Processes which would technically disturb the safe intervention as planned
- 1\. Occluded inferior vena cava access 2. Previous ASD/PFO closure device in place 3. Intracardiac thrombus OR any other circumstance that, in the opinion of the Investigator,
- might interfere with the implantation, might affect the patient's well-being thereafter or might interfere with the conduct and follow up within the Study is general.
- Participation in other medical trials shorter than 30 days before the intended AFR implantation procedure
- Previous ASD/PFO closure device in place
Other illness
- Local or generalized sepsis or other acute infection(s)
- Thrombophilic coagulation disorder
- Allergy to nickel and/or titanium and/or nickel/titanium-based materials
- Local or generalized sepsis or other acute infection(s)
- Thrombophilic coagulation disorder
- Allergy to nickel and/or titanium and/or nickel/titanium-based materials
Lab values
- Allergy to anti-platelet, -coagulant, or -thrombotic therapy
- Allergy to anti-platelet, -coagulant, or -thrombotic therapy
Other
- Processes which interfere medically with invasive device implantation
- Intolerance to contrast agents
- Pregnancy - (assessed in patients with child bearing potential by urine dip stick)
- Any intracardiac intervention within the last 30 days
- Intolerance to contrast agents
- Pregnancy
- Any intracardiac intervention within the last 30 days
- Occluded inferior vena cava access
- Intracardiac thrombus
Who the study is looking for
- Age is ≥ 18 / ≥6 years (phase 1 / phase 2).
- Patient consents to participation
- The patient or his/her legal representative should have the ability to fluently speak and under-stand the language in which the study is being conducted. If the patient speaks a different language, then a sentence-to-sentence translation for unequivocal understanding must be provided.
- Written, informed consent by the patient or her/his legally-authorized representative for participation in the study.
- Patient agrees to comply with the follow-up schedule.
- Patient has had a successful BAS procedure and is in a stable hemodynamic state, as assessed by the investigator.
- Conventional treatment options for the patient are exhausted according to ESC and AHA guidelines.
- SpO2\> 86 % pulsoxymetric measurement) This document is confidential and property of Occlutech. It´s only for clinical personnel, Ethical committees and third person in direct contact with the clinical responsible. It is not allowed to distribute information contained in this document without the permission of Occlutech unless the information is already published.
- "Syncope"(Group A-PH) 9.1. Syncope due to acute PH episodes (as defined by exclusion of other causes) 9.2. Other causes of syncope must have been actively excluded 9.3. Syncope (Black-out) or pre-syncope (episodic dizziness) \>2 last 3 months 9.4. PH (defined as mean pulmonary artery pressure \> 25 mmHg, or pulmonary vascular resistance of \> 3 Wood Units) must exist, RV-failure is however not a prerequisite
- "RV-Failure"(Group B-PH) 10.1. Right heart failure, chronic and clinically severe 10.1.1.NYHA class III or worse 10.1.2. 6 min walk \< 320 m 10.1.3. Signs of venous congestion (distended veins, edema, ascites, etc) 10.1.4.Symptomatic disease resulting in 1 or more PH-related hospitalization over the last 12 months. Elective hospital admissions solely for the purpose of performing diagnostic procedures do not count for this.
- 10.2. Severe pulmonary hypertension as evident by echocardiography Echocardiographic: 10.2.1. RV larger than LV; 10.2.2. RA larger than LA; 10.2.3. atrial septum bulging into left atrium 10.2.4.ventricular septum bulging into the left ventricle 10.2.5.Reduced (below age-related normal mean value) TAPSE 10.3. Severe pulmonary hypertension as evident by CATH CATH-data: 10.3.1.Mean RA pressure (RAP) of \> 10 and ≤ 20 mmHg; 10.3.2.Mean LA pressure (LAP) \< 15 mmHg 10.3.3.Mean RAP \> mean LAP; 10.3.4.Mean pulmonary arterial pressure \>25 mm Hg 10.3.5. Echocardiographically demonstrated continuous right to left shunt following balloon aterial septostomy (BAS) and before AFR device implantation.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (12)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justus-Liebig Universität Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Giesen | Germany | Unknown status |
| Klinikum der Universität München Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Unknown status |
| Universitätsklinikum Würzburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Würzburg | Germany | Unknown status |
| Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gdansk | Poland | Unknown status |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Krakow | Poland | Unknown status |
| Szpital im. Fryderyka Chopina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Otwock | Poland | Unknown status |
| Szpital Kliniczny Przemienienia Panskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Poznan | Poland | Unknown status |
| Ankara Etlik Sehir Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Tepecik Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Izmir | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Izmir | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Kocaeli Üniversitesi Araştırma ve Uygulama Hastanesi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kocaeli | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
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