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Status unknownNCT01758406Updated Dec 4, 2015

Transplantation of Autologous Cardiac Stem Cells in Ischemic Heart Failure

A Phase 2 interventional study of Intracoronary injection and Intracoronary injection of Placebo in Heart Failure, sponsored by Royan Institute. Status unknown at 1 site in Iran, Islamic Republic of. Open to participants aged 14 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-12-04.

Sponsored by Royan Institute · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2015), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
14 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a prospective, randomized, double blind , controlled trial to assess the efficacy of intracoronary transplantation of autologous cardiac stem cells in 50 patients with ischemic heart failure.

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Heart failure is a common, costly, disabling, and potentially deadly condition. Heart transplantation is the ultimate approach to treating heart failure, but this is costly and excludes patients who are poor candidates for transplantation given their co morbidities, or for whom a donor organ is unavailable. Currently, there is no effective intervention to regenerate dead heart muscle after a heart attack. Our hypothesis is that CSCs regenerates myocardium. In this study all eligible patients are randomly allocated into two study groups by a permuted block randomization method: group A (case group) received 5-10 millions autologous cardiac stem cells, group B (control group) just received placebo. They follow up for 18 months.

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Conditions studied

  • Heart Failure

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Keywords

  • Cardiac stem ce heart failure cardiac function intracoronary transplantation
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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 planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 72 across 3,736 interventional studies indexed under Heart Failure.

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Lead sponsor

Royan Institute is the lead sponsor of 92 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
14 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • 1- EF≤40 (by Echocardiography) 2- Not responding to standard therapies for heart failure >1m 3- NYHA class ≥ III 4- Myocardial infarction due to coronary artery atherosclerotic disease 5-An area of regional dysfunction, i.e., hypokinetic, akinetic, or dyskinetic (echocardiography or MRI) 6-No HIV/Viral hepatitis 7-Normal liver function (SGPT \< 3 times the upper reference range) 8-No or controlled diabetes (hemoglobin A1C \< 8.5%) 9- Ability to provide informed consent and follow-up with protocol procedures

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • 1 prior ICD placement(\<2w)/Sustained ventricular arrhythmias 2-Cardiogenic shock 3- pregnancy and Child-bearing 4- Congenital / valvular heart disease
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    cardiac stem cell transplantation

    The patients with heart failure that underwent cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Biological: Intracoronary injection

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    The patients with heart failure that underwent placebo injection.

    Biological: Intracoronary injection of Placebo

Interventions

  • BiologicalIntracoronary injection

    stem cell transplantation

    Also known as: autologous cardiac stem cell intracoronary injection

  • BiologicalIntracoronary injection of Placebo

    Injection of Placebo via coronary arteries in patients with heart failure.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. death

    evaluation the rate of patients mortality after cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Time frame: 18months

  2. arrhythmia

    Evaluation rate of arrhythmia after cardiac stem cell transplantation

    Time frame: 18months

  3. hospitalization

    Evaluation the rate of hospitalization after cardiac stem cell transplantation

    Time frame: 18 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Ejectin fraction changes

    evaluation the elevation of ejection fraction in patients after cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Time frame: 18months

  2. Pro BNP changes

    Evaluation the reduction of Pro BNP in patients after cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Time frame: 18months

  3. NYHA functional class

    Evaluation the improvement of NYHA functional class in patients after cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Time frame: 18months

  4. 6MW test

    Evaluation the improvement of 6MW test after cardiac stem cell transplantation.

    Time frame: 18months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Royan Institute
    Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Related links

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 4, 2015, 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
NCT01758406
Lead sponsor
Royan Institute
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 1, 2013
Start date
Dec 2013
Primary completion
Nov 2017 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2017 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 4, 2015

Study contacts

Nasser Aghdami, MD,PhD
Contact
nasser.aghdami@royaninstitute.org
+9821235622000 ext. 504
Leila Arab, MD
Contact
leila.arab@yahoo.com
+982123562000 ext. 414
Hamid Gourabi, PhD
study chair · Head of Royan Institute
Nasser Aghdami, MD,PhD
study director · Head of Royan department of degenerative medicine
Ahmad Amin, MD
study director · Department of Heart failure,Shahid Rajaee Hospital
Farveh Vakilian, MD
principal investigator · Department of Heart failure , Imam reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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