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NCT06260059Active, not recruitingPhase 4

Efficacy Of Sodium Glucose Transporter Inhibitor (SGLT2I) In Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The goal of the study is to investigate the feasibility and benefit of novel guideline-directed heart failure therapy drug Empagliflozin (Jardiance) for adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD).

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40 (estimated)
First submitted
2 Jan 2024
Start date
17 Sept 2024
Primary completion date
31 Dec 2026
Lead sponsor
Anita Saraf
NCT number
NCT06260059

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 4
  • Planned participants: 40
  • From 17 Sept 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2026
  • 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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Previous therapy with Jardiance at \<4 weeks

Other illness

  • Diagnosed with Diabetes
  • Contraindication to Jardiance/Entresto or any heart failure medication (per guideline-directed therapy, 2022).
  • History of liver disease - including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cirrhosis
  • History of inborn error(s) of metabolism (including but is not exclusive of Glycogen storage disease type 1)
  • Gaucher disease,
  • Tay-Sachs disease,
  • Niemann-Pick disease,
  • Type A mitochondrial disease,

Lab values

  • Glucose-galactose malabsorption, familial hyperinsulinism, maple syrup urine disease,
  • Metabolic disorders related to glucose metabolism

Other

  • Glomerular Filtration Rate \<20
  • Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant in the coming year
  • Mucolipidosis IV,

Who the study is looking for

  • Diagnoses of Congenital Heart Disease
  • Age 18+
  • ACHD level of structural complexity II or III
  • Recent (\<6 months) decrease in systemic Ejection Fraction (confirmed by cardiac Echocardiogram, Computed Tomography or cMRI) to EF \< 60%
  • Recent decrease in systemic ejection fraction confirmed by cardiac Echo, CT or MRI by \> 5% in the last 6 months or less.
  • Must be able to complete neurocognitive assessments on a handheld computer.

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (3)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status
Magee - Women's Hospital
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status
Presbyterian Hospital
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status

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