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RecruitingNCT06919744DIVE IIN EARLYUpdated Oct 3, 2025

Intracranial Venous Stenting Evaluation in Patients With Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in the Early Phase

An interventional study of Best medical care and Intervention (stenting) in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), sponsored by University Hospital, Montpellier. Recruiting at 3 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-10-03.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Montpellier · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2025; still recruiting 1 year 1 month later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
114
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is aimed at patients suffering from recently discovered intracranial hypertension, caracterized by visual loss, chronic headache and/or tinnitus. The goal is to evaluate if stenting of a specific vein in the brain could decrease the hypertension and improve associated symptoms. Patients will be randomly assigned in either best medical care group (recommended medication associated with weight loss) or interventional group (best medical car + stenting of the specific vein) and will undergo specific follow-up visits after 1, 3 and 12 months.

Read the detailed description

The DIVE-IIN-EARLY trial is a multicenter randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate whether transverse venous sinus stenting is more effective than best medical therapy alone as first-line treatment for patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). The study targets patients with a new diagnosis of IIH with bilateral transverse sinus stenosis or unilateral stenosis of the dominant transverse sinus with a hypoplastic contralateral sinus.

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is, in most cases, associated with narrowing of the transverse sinus vein, which may be the cause of increased intracranial blood pressure, resulting in the accumulation and increase in intracranial fluid pressure. This increased pressure is thought to be responsible for papilledema, chronic headaches, and tinnitus, among other symptoms.

Restoring a normal luminal diameter of the transverse sinus using a stent could therefore allow for the rapid restoration of normal intracranial pressures and an improvement in various symptoms.

Stent implantation in the transverse sinus is now part of standard care, but no large-scale clinical trial has formally established the superiority of the technique compared to the standard of care (drug therapy combined with weight gain). This study aims to provide evidence on the potential benefits of transverse venous sinus stenting as a treatment option for patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, which could significantly change the current management approach to this disease.

Usual medication for this condition is acetazolamide, but it's efficacy as well as it's tolerance is mostly poor. By proposing stenting in the early phase of the disease, one could avoid long term symptoms such as loss of vision and chronic headache.

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Conditions studied

  • Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)

Keywords

  • Intracranial hypertension
  • papillary edema
  • stenting
  • transverse sinus vein
  • chronic headache
  • tinnitus
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In context

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53 studies on the registry are indexed under Pseudotumor Cerebri; 22 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 114 is above the median of 60 across 35 interventional studies indexed under Pseudotumor Cerebri.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Montpellier is the lead sponsor of 1,261 studies on the registry; 224 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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subject is ≥ 18 years old at inclusion.
  2. Subject with definite new diagnosis (˂ 3 months) of IIH satisfying the modified Dandy criteria (A to E)
  3. Subject with intracranial TVS stenosis on dominant transverse sinus and hypoplastic contralateral one (or bilateral TVS stenosis) diagnosed on MRI
  4. Normal MRI findings excepted intracranial TVS stenosis or IIH related abnormalities
  5. Subject with ophthalmologic IIH symptoms and signs (RNFL ≥ 130 µm, Frisen score ≥ 2, and absence of differential diagnostic)
  6. Subject without macular ganglion cells atrophy seen on OCT
  7. Patient having received information about data collection and having signed and dated an Form
  8. Subjects must be able to attend all scheduled visits and to comply with all trial procedures
  9. Subjects must be covered by public health insurance

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject previously treated with acetazolamide for IIH
  2. Known contrast product, Nickel, titanium allergy
  3. Exposure to an oral drug, substance, or disorder that has been associated with elevation of intracranial pressure within 2 months of diagnosis (lithium, vitamin A, tetracycline and related compounds)
  4. History of intracranial venous thrombosis or intracranial neoplasia
  5. Fulminant decrease of visual acuity due to the IIH defined as a visual loss (of the most seriously impaired eye) of at least 3/10 (from corrected vision) within 4 weeks, in absence of any other ophthalmologic pathology and Mean Deficit of visual field superior to -10 dB
  6. Macular ganglion cells atrophy seen on OCT
  7. Optic nerve atrophy
  8. Amblyopia
  9. Refractive error greater ±8 sphere or more than ±3 in cylinder in either eye if there are abnormalities in funduscopy (optic disc tilt, staphyloma), previous glaucoma, other disorders causing visual loss
  10. Pregnancy: if a woman is of a urine or serum beta HCG test is positive
  11. Patient with a severe or fatal comorbidity that will likely prevent improvement or follow-up or that will render the procedure unlikely to benefit the patient.
  12. Evidence of intracranial hemorrhage (subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), etc.)
  13. under 6 months
  14. Chronic IIH
  15. Patients with renal failure (creatinine > 1.5 mg/dl and/or \< 60 mL/min, except if patient is already on hemodialysis)
  16. History of previously implanted intra-cranial sinus stent
  17. Previous gastric bypass surgery
  18. to general anesthesia
  19. Contra-indication to aspirin, clopidogrel or other P2Y12 anti-aggregant
  20. History of or other severe respiratory disease
  21. History of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism
  22. History of atrial fibrillation or other risks of stroke
  23. Cerebral vascular lesions (arteriovenous malformation, arteriovenous fistula, aneurysms, significant stenosis of extra- or intra-cranial vessels other than the targeted venous sinus stenosis, intracranial artery dissection, etc.).
  24. Anatomical anomaly of the venous sinus which would prevent safe catheterization and stenting
  25. Subject who are in a dependency or employment with the sponsor or the investigator
  26. Participation in another clinical trial or administration of an unapproved drug within the last 4 weeks before the screening date
  27. Subject protected according to the French Public Health Code (e.g. patients under law protection, prisoners, pregnant, parturient or lactating women, and patients under guardianship/curatorship)
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(6)

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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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
114 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    best medical care

    Acetazolamide and recommended weight loss

    Drug: Best medical care

  • Experimental
    Experimental (stenting, neuro-radiological intervention)

    Stenting of the tranverse sinus vein

    Device: Intervention (stenting)

Interventions

  • Acetazolamide will be introduced at the time of papilledema discovery. Weight loss will be recommended.

    Also known as: Acetazolamide, Weight loss

  • DeviceIntervention (stenting)

    Transverse venous sinus will be stented by neuro-radiological intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Rate of patients with resolved papilledema and normalization of intra-cranial pressure

    Rate of patients with resolved papilledema (defined as Frisén scale grade 0-1 on OCT, without ganglion cells damage, and RNFL ˂ 130 µm) and normalization of intra-cranial pressure (defined as ≤ 25 cm H20 or 18 mmHg measured on lumbar puncture) at 3 months. Papilledema will be studied in the most affected eye.

    Time frame: 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. HIT-6 grading scale score

    Change in mean HIT-6 grading scale score (patient's questionnaire containing 6 questions to evaluate the severity of headache)

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  2. Monthly headache days

    Change in monthly headache days (within the last month) reported on patients' dairy

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  3. THI score

    Change in THI (Tinnitus Handicap Inventory) score

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  4. Visual field

    Change in decibel of Mean Deficit visual field assessed on automated perimetry in both eyes with Humphrey Field Analyzer SITA Standard 24-2 test pattern. Each participant will have at least 2 initial visual field examinations conducted at least 30 minutes apart. The 2 Perimetric Mean Deviation (PMD) measurements will be averaged.

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  5. Visual acuity

    Change of visual acuity score evaluated on ETDRS (far vision) at 4 meters and reproducible lighting, and Parinaud scale (near vision) using the best optical correction

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  6. Papilledema

    Change of papilledema assessed on Frisen score and RNFL on OCT

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  7. Patient's autonomy

    Change in quality of life assessed on EQ5D questionnaire

    Time frame: 3 and 12 months

  8. Patient's cognition

    Change in Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

    Time frame: 12 months

  9. Cognition

    Change in Trail Making Test (TMT) A and B

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 of 3 sites recruiting
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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 reached

Started Sep 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Oct 2028, 37 months after the start.

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

Registered
Apr 2, 2025
First posted
Apr 9, 2025
StartActual
Sep 19, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Oct 30, 2028
CompletionEst.
Apr 30, 2029
Last update
Oct 3, 2025
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 Oct 3, 2025, 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
NCT06919744
Collaborators
Ministère de la Santé
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 9, 2025
Start date
Sep 19, 2025
Primary completion
Oct 30, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 30, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 3, 2025

Study contacts

Anne DUCROS, MD, PhD
Contact
a-ducros@chu-montpellier.fr
+33 467 339 469
Fédérico CAGNAZZO, MD, PhD
Contact
f-cagnazzo@chu-montpellier.fr
+33 467 337 532

Oversight

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