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Status unknownNCT04528576Updated Mar 29, 2022

Dragonfly-M Early Feasibility Study

An interventional study of Dragonfly mitral valve repair system in Mitral Regurgitation, sponsored by Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co., Ltd. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-03-29.

Sponsored by Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co., Ltd · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Aug 2021), so the status shown — last known as Enrolling by invitation — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

To establish the safety and effectiveness of the DragonFly transcatheter mitral valve repair system in symptomatic patients with moderate to severe and severe mitral regurgitation who have been determined to be at an high risk of mortality with mitral valve surgery by the cardiac surgeon with concurrence by the local Heart Team

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The subjects with moderate-to-severe (3+) and severe (4+) mitral valve regurgitation (MR) at high or prohibitive surgical risk will be evaluated by the study sites, and study eligibility confirmed by the echocardiographic core laboratory and eligibility committee. Those qualifying will then be treated with Dragonfly transcatheter mitral valve repair system after signing the informed consent. The follow-up will be conducted at discharge, 30 days, 6 months and 12 months after the operation. The primary endpoints are the incidence of major adverse events (MAE) at 30 days, and acute procedural success. Acute procedural success is defined as placement of one or more Dragonfly devices on the mitral valve with reduction of MR to 2+ or less. The secondary endpoints include all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, incidence of serious adverse event, cardiovascular rehospitalization, NYHA functional class, mitral valve hemodynamics, acute technical success rate and device success rate at 6 months. Acute technical success is defined as no procedural mortality, successful in access, delivery, and retrieval of the device delivery system, and no emergency surgery or reintervention related to the device or access procedure in the catheterization laboratory. Device success is defined as no procedural mortality, proper delivery and deployment of the device, no unplanned surgical or interventional procedures related to the device, no specific device-related technical failure and or complications, function improvement of MR without significant stenosis (MR ≤ 2+) and without associated hemolysis or thrombogenesis.

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Conditions studied

  • Mitral Regurgitation

Keywords

  • mitral regurgitation
  • TMVr
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In context

Mitral Valve Insufficiency

459 studies on the registry are indexed under Mitral Valve Insufficiency; 148 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 61 across 274 interventional studies indexed under Mitral Valve Insufficiency.

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Lead sponsor

Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co., Ltd is the lead sponsor of 12 studies on the registry; 7 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age ≥ 18 yrs
  2. Moderate-to-severe (3+) or severe (4+) mitral valve regurgitation on transthoracic or transesophageal echocardiography, and confirmed by echocardiographic core laboratory
  3. The patient is on optimal guideline directed medical therapy for heart failure and remains symptomatic.
  4. High or prohibitive surgical risk as defined by either Society for Thoracic Surgery Risk Calculator score for valve replacement ≥ 8 points; or STS score for valve repair ≥ 6 points , prohibitive risk as determined by the clinical judgement of the site heart team, including a cardiac surgeon experienced in mitral valve surgery and a cardiologist experience in mitral valve disease, due to the presence of one or more documented surgical risk factors.
  5. Anatomically suitable for mitral valve repair and can be treated by Dragonfly confirmed by both site investigators, echocardiographic core laboratory, and the eligibility committee.
  6. Transseptal catheterization and femoral vein access is determined to be feasible
  7. Life expectancy ≥ 12 months
  8. The subject or the subject's legal representative has been informed of the nature of the trial, willing to accept the experimental tests and follow-ups, and has provided written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. History of heart transplantation, prior mitral valve replacement surgery. or transcatheter mitral valve procedure;
  2. Leaflet anatomy which may preclude Dragonfly-MTM implantation and position, as judged by the site investigators and confirmed by the echocardiographic core laboratory and eligibility committee
  3. Evidence of calcification or significant cleft in the grasping area
  4. LVEF \< 20%
  5. LVESD≥ 60mm;
  6. Mobile leaflet length\<10mm
  7. Mitral valve effective orifice area (EOA) \< 3.5cm2 or in the opinion of site investigators and confirmed by the echocardiographic core laboratory and eligibility committee that mitral stenosis would result from implantation of the Dragonfly-MTM device.
  8. Echocardiographic evidence of intracardiac mass, thrombus or vegetation;
  9. Severe non-mitral valve disease requiring treatment .
  10. Severe pulmonary artery hypertension (sPAP>70mmHg)
  11. Severe right ventricular dysfunction;
  12. Active endocarditis or previous mitral valve endocarditis; Active rheumatic heart disease or leaflets degenerated from rheumatic disease
  13. Severe untreated coronary artery stenosis requiring revascularization; or with other cardiovascular disease requiring surgical treatment;
  14. Extreme frailty
  15. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis and any other structural heart disease causing heart failure other than dilated cardiomyopathy;
  16. Renal failure requiring dialysis;
  17. Blood cachexia including granulocytopenia (WBC \< 3×109/L), acute anemia (HB \< 90g/L), thrombocytopenia (PLT \< 50×109/L), severe coagulopathy, and contradictions of anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents;
  18. Evidence of an acute myocardial infarction in the prior 4 weeks;
  19. Evidence of a shock in the prior 90 days;
  20. Any percutaneous cardiac intervention or carotid surgery or any cardiac surgery within the 30 days prior to randomization;
  21. Evidence of acute peptic ulcer upper or gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the prior 90 days;
  22. Severe symptomatic carotid artery stenosis over 70% confirmed by echocardiography;
  23. The subjects suffer from diseases which may lead difficulty in evaluating treatment (e.g., cancer, infection, severe metabolic disease, psychosis, etc.); or special cases that were evaluated by the heart team of local experimental center as not suitable for the surgical application of this clinical trial;
  24. Life expectancy ≤ 12 months;
  25. Subject participating in an investigational drug or another device study within the past 1 month;
  26. In the judgment of the investigator, subjects may not complete the trial according to poor compliance.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
20 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DragonFly-M

    Experimental group is allocated to use novel mitral valve repair system manufactured by Hangzhou Valgen Meditech Co., Ltd

    Device: Dragonfly mitral valve repair system

Interventions

  • DeviceDragonfly mitral valve repair system

    With transesophageal echocardiographic guidance,implanting clip using Dragonfly mitral valve repair system

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of acute procedural success

    The acute procedural success is defined as successful Dragonfly implantation, and residual MR of 2+ or less at discharge. An echocardiogram at 30 days can be accepted if the discharge image was not available or hard to interpret. A death before discharge or a re-operation of mitral valve prior to 30 days is defined as acute procedure failure

    Time frame: 1 month

  2. Incidence of major adverse event (MAE) at 30 days

    Major adverse event is defined as one of the following components: death, myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, renal failure requiring dialysis, and cardiac surgery for Dragonfly device failure.

    Time frame: 1 month

Secondary outcomes

  1. All-cause mortality

    Death from any cause

    Time frame: 6 months

  2. Cardiovascular mortality

    Death from cardiac causes

    Time frame: 6 months

  3. Incidence of serious adverse event (SAE)

    If the adverse event meets any of the criteria below, it is regarded as a serious adverse event (SAE): 1) results in death; 2) is life threatening, results in illness or injury; 3) requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; 4) results in a persistent or significant disability/incapacity; 5) results in a congenital anomaly/birth defect, fetal death, fetal distress; 6) results in medical or surgical intervention to prevent permanent impairment to body structure or a body function; 7) an important medical event that may not result in death, be life-threatening, or require hospitalization but may be considered serious when, based upon appropriate medical judgment, may jeopardize the patient or subject and/or may require intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed in this definition.

    Time frame: 6 months

  4. NYHA

    NYHA functional class

    Time frame: 6 months

  5. Technical success

    must meet all of the following items: 1) no procedural mortality; and 2) successful in access, delivery, and retrieval of the device delivery system; and 3) no emergency surgery or reintervention related to the device or access procedure.

    Time frame: Immediately after procedure

  6. Device success

    must meet all of the following items:1) No procedural mortality; 2) Proper delivery and deployment of the device; 3) No unplanned surgical or interventional procedures related to the device; 4) No specific device-related technical failure or complication. 5) Improvement of MR without significant stenosis (MR ≤ 2+) without associated hemolysis or thrombogenesis.

    Time frame: 6 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
    Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310000, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Liu X, Chen M, Han Y, Pu Z, Lin X, Feng Y, Xu K, Lam YY, Lim DS, Wang J. First-in-Human Study of the Novel Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair System for Mitral Regurgitation. JACC Asia. 2022 Jun 21;2(3):390-394. doi: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2022.03.010. eCollection 2022 Jun. PubMed 36338402 ↗

Study documents

  • Study protocol · Jun 8, 2020

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

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 Mar 29, 2022, 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
NCT04528576
Lead sponsor
Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co., Ltd
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 27, 2020
Start date
Jul 23, 2020
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2022 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 29, 2022

Study contacts

jianan Wang, PhD
principal investigator · Zhejiang University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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