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CompletedNCT00604903PAPIRUSIIUpdated Feb 17, 2017

Monitoring Pulmonary Artery Pressure by Implantable Device Responding to Ultrasonic Signal

An interventional study of Implant of Pressure sensor. in Heart Failure, sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation. Completed. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 99 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-02-17.

Sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation · Not applicable, Interventional, and Device feasibility

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 4 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Aug 2006, registered Jan 2008).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
42
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 99 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and document appropriate clinical safety and performance of the Remon CHF Implantable Pressure Sensor including the corresponding delivery system, the Remon CHF Home Unit, the Remon CHF Clinic System devices and associated application software. It is a small clinical trial to determine the feasibility of the device. The primary outcome measure relates to feasibility and not to health outcomes.

Read the detailed description

This study was a prospective feasibility, non-randomised, singlearm, multi-centre, interventional clinical investigation performed at 4 international sites. Patients were implanted with the Remon CHF Implantable Pressure Sensor utilizing the corresponding delivering system. Measurements were taken with the Remon CHF Home Unit and the Remon CHF Clinic System. Follow-up visits took place at one, three and six months after implant.

Per protocol, a minimum of 30 patients was required to demonstrate safety of the device.

The study was conducted in accordance with ISO 14155:2003 (parts I and II), the Declaration of Helsinki and all applicable local and national regulations in the countries of submission.

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Conditions studied

  • Heart Failure

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In context

Heart Failure

5,701 studies on the registry are indexed under Heart Failure; 1,220 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 42 is below the median of 72 across 3,736 interventional studies indexed under Heart Failure.

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Lead sponsor

Boston Scientific Corporation is the lead sponsor of 517 studies on the registry; 38 are open to participants now.

Of its 64 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 56 (88%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 99 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients who exhibit signs and symptoms of NYHA Class III or IV heart failure.
  • Patients who are able to visit the clinic frequently during the 6 months following implantation.
  • Patients who are willing and able to perform all follow-up procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients under the age of 18
  2. Pregnant women or women that plan to get pregnant during the study.
  3. Patients with, tricuspid or pulmonic stenosis, pulmonary stents, right sided mechanical heart valves
  4. Contraindication to antiplatelet therapy (aspirin and clopidogrel)
  5. Patients suffering from active infection (on antibiotic therapy)
  6. Known intracardiac mass (right atrial or right ventricular)
  7. Patients who have been implanted with a VAD
  8. Patients who are candidates for listing for heart transplantation if it is deemed that they have a possibility of receiving a heart within the next 6 months
  9. Patients that have lead implanted at the heart right side of the heart within the last 6 months
  10. Patients with any terminal illness, or with a life expectancy of less than 6 months
  11. Patients that are unable to lie flat for the duration of the procedure
  12. Patients that are unable to operate the home unit (due to physical or mental constrain)
  13. Patients after pneumonectomy
  14. Patients treated with oral anticoagulants INR > 1.5 prior to catheterization
  15. Patients with severe chronic renal failure (creatinine > 2.5 mg/dl)
  16. Patients suffered from acute myocardial infarction within the three months prior the study
  17. Patients that underwent open heart surgery within 4 weeks prior the study.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Device feasibility
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
42 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Patients implanted with Pressure Sensor

    Implant of Pressure sensor. These are patients, who were implanted with the Remon CHF Implantable Pressure Sensor utilizing the corresponding delivering system.

    Device: Implant of Pressure sensor.

Interventions

  • DeviceImplant of Pressure sensor.

    Implant of an Remon ImPressure implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensor utilizing the corresponding delivering system.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Serious adverse events related to implantation or the device

    Primary Device Safety Objective: Serious Adverse Device Effects rate during 6 months following implantation (device or delivery system related) and Implantation related Serious Adverse Events rate during 6 months following implantation

    Time frame: 6

Secondary outcomes

  1. Device accuracy

    Compare accuracy of Remon Pressure Sensor with Millar catheter (invasive way of measuring pulmonary artery pressure). Secondary end points included accuracy of the measured PA pressure, functionality of the system and evaluation of pressure readings at different postures.

    Time frame: 6 months

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Hoppe UC, Vanderheyden M, Sievert H, Brandt MC, Tobar R, Wijns W, Rozenman Y. Chronic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure in patients with severe heart failure: multicentre experience of the monitoring Pulmonary Artery Pressure by Implantable device Responding to Ultrasonic Signal (PAPIRUS) II study. Heart. 2009 Jul;95(13):1091-7. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2008.153486. Epub 2009 Feb 5. PubMed 19196733 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 17, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00604903
Lead sponsor
Boston Scientific Corporation
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 30, 2008
Start date
Aug 23, 2006
Primary completion
Feb 2009
Completion
Feb 2009
Last update
Feb 17, 2017

Study contacts

Horst Sievert, M.D.
principal investigator · CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Seckbacher

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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