NCT04982419RecruitingPhase 2/3
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning for Renal and Cardiac Protection in Congestive Heart Failure (RICH) Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a prospective, double-blind, sham-controlled, multicenter, randomized clinical trial is to study the effects of remote ischemic preconditioning on contrast-associated acute kidney injury, functional capacity, and major adverse kidney events in in patients with congestive heart failure undergoing cardiac catheterization and/or percutaneous coronary intervention.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2/3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 240 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 26 Jul 2021
- Start date
- 1 Nov 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Mar 2028
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Heart failure, Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT04982419
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
- Planned participants: 240
- From 1 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Mar 2028
- 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
- Kidney transplant
- Prior exposure to contrast media within 72hrs preceding coronary angiography
Other illness
- Upper limb peripheral arterial disease
- Renal disease requiring dialysis
Other
- Inability to give informed consent
- Unstable BP (SBP \> 200 or \<80 mmHg) at the time of enrolment
- Unavailability of at least one arm for RIPC/Sham-RIPC application
- Pregnancy
- Prisoner
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 years
- Diagnosis of heart failure with reduced LVEF \<50%
- Pre-procedure intravenous normal saline fluid restriction status
- Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) AKI risk score (\>1%)
- Referral for coronary angiogram and/or PCI
- Suspected stable coronary artery disease or acute coronary syndrome
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA North Texas Health Care System Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Recruiting |
| VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Recruiting |
| Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Richmond | United States | Recruiting |
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