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Validation of Accurate Commissural Alignment During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Recruiting
Conditions
Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis
Interventions
Procedure: Accurate Commissural Alignment (ACA)
Registration Number
NCT05097183
Lead Sponsor
Ignacio J. Amat Santos
Brief Summary

Background: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become the preferred therapy for aortic stenosis. Given the growing life-expectancy, the risk of requiring coronary interventions or of developing prosthesis degeneration that could require TAVR-in-TAVR for its treatment progressively increases. During standard TAVI procedures the native and the prosthesis commissures are randomly aligned with misalignment in up to 70% of the cases. This might hinder coronary re-access in 18% of the cases, increase the risk of coronary obstruction during future TAVR-in-TAVR procedures, and has been associated to greater residual gradients.

Methods: Although several techniques have been developed to increase the degree of commissural alignment, all are imperfect or imply manipulation of the system within the patient, potentially increasing the risk of complications. The research team developed a software based on computed tomography analysis that allows planification of accurate commissural alignment by inserting the delivery system in a patient-specific degree of rotation.

Aim: The proponent team aimed to prospectively validate this methodology comparing a cohort of patients harboring TAVR with Acurate Commissural Alignment (ACA) vs. a control cohort with non-ACA standard technique, in order to determine benefits in terms of coronary re-access and clinical events (coronary events, valve degeneration, and TAVR-in-TAVR).

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
274
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis admitted to TAVR by Heart Team
  • Pre-procedure CT-Scan for planning available.
  • Signed informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Allergic to contrast
  • Severe renal failure (GFR < 30 mL/min)
  • Indication for chronic anticoagulation
  • Horizontal aorta and/or severe aortic tortuosity

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ACAAccurate Commissural Alignment (ACA)Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with Accurate Commissural Alignment (ACA) technique
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Degree of commissural alignment6 months

Mean minimum angular deviation between TAVR posts and aortic valve commissures measured in CT-scan

Successful coronary re-access10 minutes, right after TAVR

Coronary re-access was successful or not after TAVR implant

Presence of leaflet thrombosis6 months

Presence of clinical/subclinical leaflets thrombosis assessed by CT-Scan

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Residual transvalvular gradients24 months

Residual transvalvular gradients measured in transthoracic echocardiography

Trial Locations

Locations (15)

Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago

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Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca

🇪🇸

Salamanca, Spain

Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña

🇪🇸

A Coruña, Spain

Hospital Clinic, Barcelona

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía

🇪🇸

Córdoba, Spain

Hospital La Paz

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Hospital Universitari Bellvitge

🇪🇸

L'Hospitalet De Llobregat, Spain

Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca

🇪🇸

Murcia, Spain

Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria

🇪🇸

Málaga, Spain

Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias

🇪🇸

Oviedo, Spain

Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet

🇪🇸

Zaragoza, Spain

Hospital Virgen del Rocío

🇪🇸

Sevilla, Spain

Hospital clínico San Carlos

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

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