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Safety and Performance of the COR-VG-001 Conduit in Pediatric Patients for Extracardiac Total Cavopulmonary Connection

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Heart Defects, Congenital
Registration Number
NCT02377674
Lead Sponsor
Xeltis
Brief Summary

The extracardiac Fontan surgery/procedure involves diverting the venous blood from the inferior vena cava to the pulmonary arteries without passing through the morphologic right ventricle. In the extracardiac conduit type of Fontan, one end of a synthetic tube graft is connected to the inferior vena cava and the other end to the pulmonary artery confluence.

Xeltis developed a biodegradable prosthesis, the Xeltis Vascular Graft Model COR-VG-001, to be used as an extracardiac conduit between right atrium and the pulmonary arteries. The prosthesis is immediately mechanically functional, while its physiochemical characteristics should enable cell infiltration and tissue formation.

The Xeltis Vascular Graft Model COR-VG-OO is specifically designed to enhance the Fontan surgery outcome by reducing synthetic material related complications and improving hemodynamic characteristics.

Detailed Description

Although significant progress has been made in recent years in the field of congenital heart disease treatment, a substantial unmet clinical need remains for implantable materials/devices such as vascular grafts and heart valves with improved long-term performance and reduced device-related complications.

To address these limitations new generation of biodegradable polymers using recent advances in supramolecular chemistry have been developed to create highly porous vascular grafts allowing efficient cell infiltration following by gradual replacement of the polymer material with the patient's own native-like vascular tissue resulting in full functional restoration. In addition to the ability of reducing postoperative graft-related complications such types of implants have a potential to grow to adapt to the overall body growth and therefore may represent a completely new modality for the treatment of congenital heart disease. In contrast to today's situation with synthetic non-absorbable vascular grafts considered as a "standard of care", where the pediatric patients have to be re-operated several times to adjust the prosthesis size to the somatic growth of the child associated with substantial morbidity and mortality and requiring prolonged anticoagulation treatment, a biodegradable polymer implant could represent a "one-time solution".

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
5
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Patient requiring EC-TCPC
  2. Male or Female
  3. Aged ≥ 2 years
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) > 15 mm Hg as excluded by angiography/cardiac catheterization

  2. Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) >3 Wood units as excluded by angiography/cardiac catheterization

  3. Moderate or severe atrioventricular (AV) valve regurgitation requiring correction, as determined by echocardiography and/or angiography

  4. Moderate or severe outflow valve regurgitation requiring correction as determined by echocardiography and/or angiography

  5. Outflow tract (aortic arch and isthmus) obstruction as excluded by:

    • a residual outflow gradient of ≥ 20mm Hg or
    • requirement of corrective surgery
    • as determined by echocardiography and/ or angiography
  6. All arrhythmias as determined by ECG and/or at the investigator's discretion

  7. Renal dysfunction as excluded by serum creatinine > ULN and/or urea >ULN and/or at the investigator's discretion

  8. Hepatic dysfunction as excluded by ALT >ULN, AST > ULN, GGT > ULN and/or at the investigator's discretion

  9. Coagulation disorders as defined by INR outside its normal value, PTT >ULN and Fibrinogen <LLN and/or at the investigator's discretion

  10. Transcutaneous O2 saturation < 65% and/or at the investigator's discretion

  11. Immunodeficiency

  12. Trisomia 21

  13. Asplenia as determined by abdominal ultrasound

  14. Heterotaxia as determined by abdominal ultrasound

  15. HIV-infection

  16. Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)

  17. Hepatitis-B and/or -C virus infection

  18. Unwillingness of Parental/legal guardian to give consent

  19. Contraindications on ethical grounds

  20. Treatment with other investigational products

  21. Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse of the parents/legal guardian

  22. Inability of the parents/legal guardian to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems

  23. Participation of the patient in another study within 30 days preceding and during the present study

  24. Previous enrollment of the patient into the current study

  25. Enrollment of the investigator's family members, employees and other dependent persons

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The Number of Graft Related Post-operative Complications That Require a Repeat Surgery or a Non Surgical Treatment Within 12-month Post Implantation.12 months

Evaluation of the safety of the COR-VG-001 as defined by numbers of patients having graft related post-operative complications requiring surgery, intervention or leading to death within 12-month post implantation

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The Number of Grafts That Have a Reduced Function Post Operatively.12 months

Evaluation of the performance of the COR-VG-01 by analyzing, with the help of echocardiography, the incidence of loss of functionality requiring intervention within 12 months post implantation.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Bakoulev Center of Cardiovascular Surgery

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Moscow, Russian Federation

Bakoulev Center of Cardiovascular Surgery
🇷🇺Moscow, Russian Federation

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