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CompletedNCT03038360CardioSAVEUpdated May 23, 2023

Prospective Study With AMI Patients Undergoing PCI

An observational study in Heart Failure, sponsored by Firalis SA. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-05-23.

Sponsored by Firalis SA · Observational

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Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
620
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 600 studies in Heart Failure with a site in Germany — 107 open to participants now, 137 under way, 19 of them phase 3. Heart Failure · Germany.

Enrollment
63rd of 212
620 · median 286
Started
2014
with 39 others
Observational
212 of 600
48 open now
Registered
321st of 600
by date

Among the 600 studies in Heart Failure with a site in Germany, this one is the 63rd largest by enrollment of the 212 observational ones that give a count, is one of 40 that started in 2014, is one of 212 observational ones, and was the 321st registered.

Heart Failure

6,332 studies on the registry are indexed under Heart Failure; 1,392 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 966 Heart Failure studies recruiting now, 689 (71%) set no upper age limit and 89 (9%) stop at 75 or younger; 63 take children under 18; 96 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

CardioSAVE is a prospective 12-month controlled longitudinal study for the validation of a novel predictive model and a diagnostic tool, for the risk stratification of AMI patients undergoing PCI, with a one year follow-up.

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Study rational:

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), a common manifestation of coronary artery disease (CAD), is associated with a relatively high incidence and fatality rate. Myocardial Infarction (MI), commonly known as "heart attack", which usually results from an impaired blood supply often caused by thrombus formation in a coronary vessel, resulting in an acute reduction of oxygen supply to a portion of the myocardium. Reperfusion using primary angioplasty through percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was proven to be superior to other methods in reducing the fatality rate of the acute phase of the AMI.

During the last decade tremendous efforts have been given to the identification of cardiac biomarkers (BMs) for the diagnosis of AMI. Cardiac BMs have been proven extremely useful in facilitating the diagnostic as well as the timing of therapeutic intervention and in addressing important questions in terms of physiopathology . This resulted in the extensive use of BMs such as troponins in the diagnosis of MI.

Firalis and the Luxembourg general hospital have identified novel biomarkers that could serve as independent risk predictors and prognostic markers for cardiac and clinical complications. First to confirm the value of our identified biomarker panels and to increase their diagnostic/predictive performance, Firalis will identify novel BMs in patient undergoing PCI to include novel biomarkers in this panel and develop a novel early stage prognostic test for clinical outcome in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This novel test will also be able to monitor treatment response.

For this purpose, the predictive and diagnostic value of the candidate biomarker set have to be clinically validated in a controlled prospective study conducted by the Bad Krozingen Hearth Center. The sample and data collected in this proof of concept study will constitute an independent validation set at the Bad Krozingen Heart Center. Early time point samples will be used to estimate the risk associated with patients and the data obtained will be correlated with the one year outcome of patients.

The development and successful implementation of such diagnostic assay will have strong impact on the quality of care AMI patients, and will significantly reduce costs for healthcare and economy.

Primary objectives:

  • To monitor clinical complications registered following PCI, e.g. death, re-infarction and heart failure
  • To perform cardiac measurements including electrocardiogram, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by cardiac echography and post-AMI myocardium remodelling by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging
  • To determine the levels of new and exploratory biomarkers in peripheral blood samples collected before and 1 to 3 days after PCI in patients with MI and to correlate them with clinical outcomes.
  • To assess the prognostic and diagnostic values of each biomarker or combination of biomarkers prior and shortly (3 and 5 days) after PCI treatment long-term (12 months) clinical outcomes.

Secondary objectives:

  • To quantitatively measure reference biomarkers related to cardiac function, including Troponin I/T, CK, CK-MB, BNP, NT-proBNP.
  • To correlate the levels of new and exploratory biomarkers with reference biomarkers (Troponin I/T, CK, CK-MB, NT-Pro BNP) and cardiac measurements including electrocardiogram, post-AMI myocardium remodelling by magnetic resonance imaging, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by cardiac echography.
  • To evaluate the prognostic and diagnostic values of each biomarker or combination with regard to reference biomarkers (Troponin I/T, CK, CK-MB, NT-Pro BNP) as well as the combination of new and reference biomarkers against classical reference biomarkers, and cardiac measurements including regression of ST-segment by electrocardiogram, post-AMI myocardium remodelling by magnetic resonance imaging, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by cardiac echography.

Study design:

CardioSAVE is a prospective 12-month controlled longitudinal study in 600 AMI patients, with a one year follow-up conducted by the Bad Krozingen Heart Center. The objectif is to validate a novel predictive model and a diagnostic tool, for the risk stratification of AMI patients undergoing PCI. The sample and data collected by eCRF will allow to set up a prototype personalized medicine device focusing on Heart Failure (HF) induced by AMI. The primary endpoint will be the proportion of patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \< 40% at 6 months. The main secondary endpoint is recovery of regional wall motion measured by cMRI at 6 months. Early time point samples, cMRI at day 3 and other clinical patient data will be used to estimate the risk associated with patients and the data obtained will be correlated with the one year outcome of patients.

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Conditions studied

  • Heart Failure

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Male and Female patients with non (, ovariectomised or hysterectomised) patients. Menopause is defined as > 60 years, or between 45 and 60 years being amenorrheic for at least 2 years
  2. Age more than 18 years old
  3. Acute myocardial infarction with clinical decision to treat with percutaneous coronary intervention

    Primary PCI for myocardial infarction:

    • ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or
    • Large non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) with hs-Troponin T ≥ 0,1 ng/mL
  4. Having signed an to participate in the trial before any study related procedure has been taken.
  5. Having signed an Informed Consent for Biobank sampling.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation, cardiogenic shock, stent thrombosis, previous AMI, angina within 48h before infarction, previous CABG 3. Severe concomitant non-cardiac illnesses 4. Relevant non-coronary cardiac illnesses 5. Planned major surgery 6. Participated in any drug or therapy study with a non-approved medication, within the previous 3 months 7. Being - dependent on the Investigator or the Sponsor (e.g., including but not limited to affiliated employee)
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

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Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
620 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No
Biospecimen retention
Samples without dna
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) < 40%

    Proportion of patients with LV-EF \< 40% at 6 months or Death and/or occurence of serious cardiovascular events such as reinfarction, onset of a cardiovascular disease (e.g. heart failure).

    Time frame: At 6 months after PCI

Secondary outcomes

  1. Recovery of regional wall motion

    Recovery of regional wall motion measured by cMRI at 6 months

    Time frame: At 6 months after PCI

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Study locations

1 site
  • Universitaets Herz Zentrum
    Bad Krozingen, 79189, Germany
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Sep 2014 to primary completion in Nov 2020, 74 months.

Of 182 industry-sponsored observational studies under Heart Failure, half reached primary completion within 34 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 20 and three quarters within 57. This study's 74 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 976 studies reached it within 41 months; a quarter within 23 and three quarters within 89.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 30, 2017
First posted
Jan 31, 2017
StartActual
Sep 10, 2014
Primary completionActual
Nov 30, 2020
CompletionActual
Oct 30, 2021
Last update
May 23, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 23, 2023, 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
NCT03038360
Lead sponsor
Firalis SA
Collaborators
Herz-Zentrums Bad Krozingen
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 31, 2017
Start date
Sep 10, 2014
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2020
Completion
Oct 30, 2021
Last update
May 23, 2023

Study contacts

Hueseyin Firat, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Firalis SA

Oversight

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