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Heart TransplantNCT03831048

Donors After Circulatory Death Heart Trial

A study testing OCS Heart System and Cold Storage in people with Heart Transplant, run by TransMedics at 25 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

To evaluate the effectiveness of the OCS Heart System to resuscitate, preserve and assess hearts donated after circulatory death for transplantation to increase the pool of donor hearts available for transplantation. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Heart Transplant
What is being tested?
OCS Heart System and Cold Storage
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
180 participants
Where
25 sitesUnited States
Study dates
26 Nov 2019to 28 Sep 2021
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

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 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Donor Inclusion

  • Maastricht Category III DCD donor, defined as expected death after the withdrawal of life- supportive therapy (WLST)
  • Donor age 18-49 years old inclusive
  • Warm ischemic time (WIT) ≤ 30 mins, with warm ischemic time defined as: Time from when mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) is < 50 mmHg or peripheral saturation < 70% to aortic cross-clamp and administration of cold cardioplegia in the donor.

Donor Exclusion

  • Previous cardiac surgery
  • Known coronary artery disease
  • Cardiogenic shock or myocardial infarction, or
  • Sustained terminal ejection fraction (EF) of ≤ 50%, or
  • Significant valve disease except for competent bicuspid aortic valve

Recipient Inclusion

  • Primary heart transplant candidates
  • Age ≥ 18 years old
  • Signed: (1) written informed consent document; (2) authorization to use and disclose protected health information; and (3) consent to TransMedics' use of recipients' United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) data and recipients' Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) data.

Recipient Exclusion

  • Prior solid organ or bone marrow transplant
  • Chronic use of hemodialysis or diagnosis of chronic renal insufficiency
  • Multi-organ transplant
  • Investigator unwilling to randomize to either arm.

Trial locations and contacts

25 sites in 1 country.

25 sites in 1 country

United States25 sites
  • Emory University Hospital

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30322

  • Tufts Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02111

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

  • Northwestern Medicine

    Chicago, Illinois, 60611

  • Duke University

    Durham, North Carolina, 27710

  • St. Vincent Cardiovascular Research Institute

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46260

  • Mayo Clinic Florida

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

  • University of California San Diago

    La Jolla, California, 92037

  • Cedars Sinai

    Los Angeles, California, 90048

  • University of Wisconsin

    Madison, Wisconsin, 53792

  • Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226

  • Minneapolis Heart Institute

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407

  • University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55414

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37212

  • Yale New Haven Hospital

    New Haven, Connecticut, 06510

  • Nyph/Cumc

    New York, New York, 10032

  • Sentara

    Norfolk, Virginia, 23502

  • University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, Nebraska, 68198

  • AdventHealth

    Orlando, Florida, 32804

  • Stanford University

    Palo Alto, California, 94304

  • Virgina Commonwealth University

    Richmond, Virginia, 23298

  • Tampa General Hospital

    Tampa, Florida, 33606

  • Montefiore

    The Bronx, New York, 10467

  • Westchester Medical Center

    Valhalla, New York, 10595

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About this study

Official title: Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of The Portable Organ Care System (OCS™) Heart For Resuscitation, Preservation and Assessment of Hearts From Donors After Circulatory Death (DCD Heart Trial)

To evaluate the effectiveness of the OCS Heart System to resuscitate, preserve and assess hearts donated after circulatory death for transplantation to increase the pool of donor hearts available for transplantation.

Read the detailed description

A prospective, randomized and concurrent controlled, non-inferiority pivotal trial in which subjects who receive a DCD donor heart transplant will be compared to subjects who receive a standard criteria donor heart transplant (Standard of Care 1 [SOC1] and Standard of Care 2 [SOC2] - from both randomized and concurrent control groups), adjusting for differences in risk factors.

Being tested
OCS Heart System, Cold Storage
Keywords
Heart preservation, Beating heart transplant

What participants receive

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

  • OCS Heart SystemDevice

    Preserving and assessing donor after circulatory death hearts for transplant

  • Cold StorageOther

    Active comparator intervention

Study groups in NCT03831048
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
DCD Heart PossibleExperimentalNot described
Receives: Device: OCS Heart System
Standard of Care Heart OnlyActive comparatorNot described
Receives: Other: Cold Storage

What is being measured

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

  1. Survival

    Patient survival 6 months post-transplant

    Measured: 6 months

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Utilization Rate

    Utilization Rate, defined as the number of eligible DCD donor hearts that met the warm ischemic time limit above and were instrumented on the OCS Heart System that meet the acceptance criteria for transplantation after OCS Heart preservation divided by the total number of eligible DCD donor hearts that met the warm ischemic time limit above and were instrumented on the OCS Heart System.

    Measured: Within 24 hours post-transplant

Timeline

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

  1. First posted5 Feb 2019
  2. Study start26 Nov 2019
  3. Primary completion1 Apr 2021
  4. Study completion28 Sep 2021

Resources

More details

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

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
180 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03831048
Sponsor's protocol ID
OCS-CAR-03202019
Status last verified
Dec 2022
First submitted
22 Jan 2019
Last updated
7 May 2024
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes

Publications

  • Merani S, Urban M, Westphal SG, Dong J, Miles CD, Maskin A, Hoffman A, Langnas AN. Improved Early Post-Transplant Outcomes and Organ Use in Kidney Transplant Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Donation after Circulatory Death: National Experience in the US. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Jan 1;238(1):107-118. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000880. Epub 2023 Sep 29.

    PubMed 37772721
  • Schroder JN, Patel CB, DeVore AD, Bryner BS, Casalinova S, Shah A, Smith JW, Fiedler AG, Daneshmand M, Silvestry S, Geirsson A, Pretorius V, Joyce DL, Um JY, Esmailian F, Takeda K, Mudy K, Shudo Y, Salerno CT, Pham SM, Goldstein DJ, Philpott J, Dunning J, Lozonschi L, Couper GS, Mallidi HR, Givertz MM, Pham DT, Shaffer AW, Kai M, Quader MA, Absi T, Attia TS, Shukrallah B, Sun BC, Farr M, Mehra MR, Madsen JC, Milano CA, D'Alessandro DA. Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death. N Engl J Med. 2023 Jun 8;388(23):2121-2131. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2212438.

    PubMed 37285526
  • Shudo Y, Benjamin-Addy R, Koyano TK, Hiesinger W, MacArthur JW, Woo YJ. Donors after circulatory death heart trial. Future Cardiol. 2021 Jan;17(1):11-17. doi: 10.2217/fca-2020-0070. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

    PubMed 32628044

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing OCS Heart System and Cold Storage in people with Heart Transplant, run by TransMedics at 25 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?

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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 May 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 25 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?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 7 May 2024). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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?

Survival (time frame: 6 months). 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 NCT03831048, which also lists 3 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 7 May 2024.

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