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Heart Transplant RejectionSHORENCT03695601

Surveillance HeartCare® Outcomes Registry

An observational study of Heart Transplant Rejection, run by CareDx at 67 sites in United States.

Active, not recruiting

Under way, not looking for participants. Everyone needed has enrolled. The study is still running.

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Trial summary

This is an observational registry to assess the clinical utility of surveillance using HeartCare testing services, in association with clinical care of heart transplant recipients. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 15 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Heart Transplant Rejection
How many people
2,743 participants
Where
67 sitesUnited States
Study dates
28 Dec 2018to Nov 2026
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 15 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Study population: All eligible heart transplant recipients who meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria will be a part of this observational study. The control cohort will include the historical patients cared for without the use of HeartCare at the participating centers.

Who may be able to join

  • Patients who are 15 years of age or older at the time of blood draw.
  • Received a heart transplant (primary or repeat)
  • Patients who have HeartCare initiated within 3 months post-transplant

Who cannot join

  • 1. Patients who are pregnant at the time of blood draw.

Trial locations and contacts

67 sites in 1 country.

67 sites in 1 country

United States67 sites
  • Piedmont Heart Institute

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30309

  • Ascension Seton

    Austin, Texas, 78705

  • Tufts Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02111

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599

  • Medical University of South Carolina

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425

  • Northwestern University

    Chicago, Illinois, 60611

  • University of Chicago Medicine

    Chicago, Illinois, 60637

  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195

  • The Ohio State University

    Columbus, Ohio, 43210

  • Medical City Dallas

    Dallas, Texas, 75230

  • Baylor Research Institute

    Dallas, Texas, 75246

  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, Texas, 75390

  • Henry Ford Health System

    Detroit, Michigan, 48202

  • Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

    Falls Church, Virginia, 22042

  • Stern Cardiovascular Foundation

    Germantown, Tennessee, 38138

  • Spectrum Health

    Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503

  • Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033

  • Memorial Healthcare System

    Hollywood, Florida, 33021

  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • Houston Methodist Research Institute

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • UTHealth/ Memorial Hermann Hospital

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • Indiana University School of Medicine

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202

  • Ascension St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46260

  • Mayo Clinic- Florida

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

  • The University of Kansas Medical Center

    Kansas City, Kansas, 66160

  • St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64111

  • University of California San Diego

    La Jolla, California, 92037

  • Baptist Health Arkansas

    Little Rock, Arkansas, 72211

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Los Angeles, California, 90048

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, 90095

  • University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, California, 94003

  • University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

    Madison, Wisconsin, 53726

  • Northwell Health/ North Shore University Hospital

    Manhassett, New York, 11030

  • Loyola University Medical Center

    Maywood, Illinois, 60153

  • University of Miami

    Miami, Florida, 33136

  • Medical College of Wisconsin

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226

  • Aurora Research Institute

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233

  • Intermountain Heart Institute

    Murray, Utah, 84107

  • Saint Thomas Health

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37205

  • Yale New Haven

    New Haven, Connecticut, 06519

  • Ochsner Clinic Foundation

    New Orleans, Louisiana, 70121

  • NYU Langone Health

    New York, New York, 10016

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    New York, New York, 10029

  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    New York, New York, 10032

  • Sentara Cardiovascular Research Institute

    Norfolk, Virginia, 23507

  • Advocate Christ Medical Center

    Oak Lawn, Illinois, 60453

  • Integris Baptist Medical Center

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73112

  • University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, Nebraska, 68198

  • Advent Health

    Orlando, Florida, 32804

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Mayo Clinic Arizona

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85054

  • Allegheny-Singer Research Institute

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15212

  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213

  • Oregon Health and Science University

    Portland, Oregon, 97239

  • Mayo Clinic Rochester

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

  • University of Rochester Medical Center

    Rochester, New York, 14642

  • Methodist Healthcare Systems of San Antonio

    San Antonio, Texas, 78229

  • California Pacific Medical Center

    San Francisco, California, 94115

  • University of California San Fransisco Medical Center

    San Francisco, California, 94143

  • University of Washington

    Seattle, Washington, 98115

  • Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

  • Stanford University

    Stanford, California, 94305

  • Tampa General Hospital

    Tampa, Florida, 33606

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    The Bronx, New York, 10467

  • Medstar Washington Hospital Center

    Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20010

  • Wake Forest Medical Center

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157

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About this study

This is an observational registry to assess the clinical utility of surveillance using HeartCare testing services, in association with clinical care of heart transplant recipients.

Read the detailed description

HeartCare is a service which includes AlloMap® and AlloSure-Heart® to provide information to help clinicians to more comprehensively monitor heart transplant recipients for allograft rejection. An approach to surveillance using HeartCare provides information from two complementary measures; AlloMap is a gene-expression profile based measure of host immune activity and risk of acute rejection. AlloSure-Heart monitors graft injury. AlloMap is the first FDA cleared test and is the only non-invasive, blood test method recommended in the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) guidelines for surveillance of heart transplant recipients for rejection. AlloSure-Heart measures donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) to help discriminate acute cellular rejection and antibody-mediated rejection from no rejection. Patients who receive HeartCare, as part of their post-transplant management, will give informed consent for information on their outcomes and other relevant clinical information, found in their medical records, to be entered into a SHORE database for purposes of the study.

Being tested
Standard of Care

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Standard of CareOther

    Other Standard measures for monitoring rejection: Endomyocardial Biopsy, Echocardiogram, Angiography, Intravascular Ultrasound, Donor-specific HLA Antibody

Study groups in NCT03695601
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
HeartCareDiagnostic Test: Heart Care 2300 patients managed with HeartCare (AlloMap® and AlloSure-Heart® )
Receives: Other: Standard of Care
ControlA historical control group will be matched to the estimated 1150 HeartCare group patients who complete at least two years of HeartCare surveillance use and inclusive of year 3 post-transplant clinical follow-up for outcome. The criteria for the matched controls will be based on allograft donor type, age, gender, ethnicity/race, and other clinical factors. Propensity scores will be used to perform the matching.
Receives: Other: Standard of Care

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Proportion of patients who develop de-novo DSA as a surrogate to clinical outcomes at 1, 3 and 5 years post-transplant.

    The primary endpoint of the study is the proportion of patients who develop de-novo DSA as a surrogate to clinical outcomes at 1, 3 and 5 years post-transplant. The overall incidence of de-novo DSA is between 10-20% in the first year and 10-15% each year subsequently.

    Measured: Dec-2026

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted4 Oct 2018
  2. Study start28 Dec 2018
  3. Primary completionNov 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completionNov 2026 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
2,743 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03695601
Sponsor's protocol ID
SN-C-00011
Acronym
SHORE
Status last verified
Sep 2026
First submitted
28 Sep 2018
Last updated
3 Sep 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Agbor-Enoh S, Tunc I, De Vlaminck I, Fideli U, Davis A, Cuttin K, Bhatti K, Marishta A, Solomon MA, Jackson A, Graninger G, Harper B, Luikart H, Wylie J, Wang X, Berry G, Marboe C, Khush K, Zhu J, Valantine H. Applying rigor and reproducibility standards to assay donor-derived cell-free DNA as a non-invasive method for detection of acute rejection and graft injury after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Sep;36(9):1004-1012. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.05.026. Epub 2017 May 20.

    PubMed 28624139
  • Crespo-Leiro MG, Stypmann J, Schulz U, Zuckermann A, Mohacsi P, Bara C, Ross H, Parameshwar J, Zakliczynski M, Fiocchi R, Hoefer D, Colvin M, Deng MC, Leprince P, Elashoff B, Yee JP, Vanhaecke J. Clinical usefulness of gene-expression profile to rule out acute rejection after heart transplantation: CARGO II. Eur Heart J. 2016 Sep 1;37(33):2591-601. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv682. Epub 2016 Jan 7.

    PubMed 26746629
  • De Vlaminck I, Valantine HA, Snyder TM, Strehl C, Cohen G, Luikart H, Neff NF, Okamoto J, Bernstein D, Weisshaar D, Quake SR, Khush KK. Circulating cell-free DNA enables noninvasive diagnosis of heart transplant rejection. Sci Transl Med. 2014 Jun 18;6(241):241ra77. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007803.

    PubMed 24944192
  • Deng MC, Eisen HJ, Mehra MR, Billingham M, Marboe CC, Berry G, Kobashigawa J, Johnson FL, Starling RC, Murali S, Pauly DF, Baron H, Wohlgemuth JG, Woodward RN, Klingler TM, Walther D, Lal PG, Rosenberg S, Hunt S; CARGO Investigators. Noninvasive discrimination of rejection in cardiac allograft recipients using gene expression profiling. Am J Transplant. 2006 Jan;6(1):150-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.01175.x.

    PubMed 16433769
  • Grskovic M, Hiller DJ, Eubank LA, Sninsky JJ, Christopherson C, Collins JP, Thompson K, Song M, Wang YS, Ross D, Nelles MJ, Yee JP, Wilber JC, Crespo-Leiro MG, Scott SL, Woodward RN. Validation of a Clinical-Grade Assay to Measure Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. J Mol Diagn. 2016 Nov;18(6):890-902. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2016.07.003. Epub 2016 Oct 7.

    PubMed 27727019
  • Kobashigawa J, Patel J, Azarbal B, Kittleson M, Chang D, Czer L, Daun T, Luu M, Trento A, Cheng R, Esmailian F. Randomized pilot trial of gene expression profiling versus heart biopsy in the first year after heart transplant: early invasive monitoring attenuation through gene expression trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2015 May;8(3):557-64. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001658. Epub 2015 Feb 19.

    PubMed 25697852
  • Pham MX, Teuteberg JJ, Kfoury AG, Starling RC, Deng MC, Cappola TP, Kao A, Anderson AS, Cotts WG, Ewald GA, Baran DA, Bogaev RC, Elashoff B, Baron H, Yee J, Valantine HA; IMAGE Study Group. Gene-expression profiling for rejection surveillance after cardiac transplantation. N Engl J Med. 2010 May 20;362(20):1890-900. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0912965. Epub 2010 Apr 22.

    PubMed 20413602
  • Kim PJ, Alam AH, Teuteberg JJ, Khush KK, Pinney SP, Cheng RK, Yehya A, Kobulnik J, Pinney KM, Oreschak KA, Ensor CR, Fan S, Urey MA, Shah P, Hall SA. Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Antibody-Mediated Rejection: An Analysis of the Surveillance HeartCare Outcomes Registry. JACC Heart Fail. 2026 Jan;14(1):102716. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2025.102716. Epub 2025 Oct 22.

    PubMed 41123513

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Heart Transplant Rejection, run by CareDx at 67 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: under way, not looking for participants, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 67 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Proportion of patients who develop de-novo DSA as a surrogate to clinical outcomes at 1, 3 and 5 years post-transplant. (time frame: Dec-2026). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03695601, which also lists 8 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 3 Sep 2026.

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