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RecruitingNCT07225075PIONEERUpdated Oct 5, 2026

Pivotal Study of the Silk Vista Baby Flow Diverters in the Treatment of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (PIONEER)

An interventional study of Silk Vista Baby (SVB) Flow Diverter in Intracranial Aneurysm, sponsored by Balt USA. Recruiting at 6 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 22 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-05.

Sponsored by Balt USA · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2026; still recruiting 9 months later.
Updated Oct 5, 20261 site addedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
250
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
22 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 113 studies in Intracranial Aneurysm with a site in United States — 19 open to participants now, 33 under way, 1 of them phase 3. Intracranial Aneurysm · United States.

Planned enrollment
14th of 73
250 · median 67
Started
2026
with 6 others
No phase
47 of 113
7 open now
Primary completion
2030-02
later than 28 of 32 live
Registered
109th of 113
by date

Among the 113 studies in Intracranial Aneurysm with a site in United States, this one is the 14th largest by planned enrollment of the 73 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 7 that started in 2026, is one of 47 with no phase, reaches primary completion later than 28 of the 32 other live ones, and was the 109th registered.

Intracranial Aneurysm

418 studies on the registry are indexed under Intracranial Aneurysm; 119 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

19 of the 113 studies in Intracranial Aneurysm with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 82 Intracranial Aneurysm studies recruiting now, 49 (60%) set no upper age limit and 14 (17%) stop at 75 or younger; 15 take children under 18; 6 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 22 Years to 80 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

The PIONEER Study is a pivotal, multi-center, prospective, single-arm study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Silk Vista Baby (SVB) Flow Diverter for the treatment of unruptured aneurysms.

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Conditions studied

  • Intracranial Aneurysm

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
22 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Age 22 to ≤ 80 years old
  2. Participant has a single target unruptured intracranial aneurysm (IA) originating from a parent vessel of 1.5 mm to 3.4mm in diameter located at or distal to the ICA terminus or in SVB-amenable anterior or posterior anatomy
  3. Participant has a target saccular or fusiform IA with an aneurysm neck ≥ 4mm or a dome to neck ratio \<2
  4. Participant has a target IA that is ≤ 12 mm
  5. Participant meets one or more risk factors for IA rupture, such as age (≤70); hypertension; cigarette smoking; use of sympathomimetic drugs; Japanese or Finnish ancestry; history of prior aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH); familial intracranial aneurysms or SAH; clinical or radiological mass effect; reduced quality of life due to fear of rupture; IA size, location, and morphology (yielding 1 point or greater score per UIATS scale); documented growth of IA on serial imaging; presence of multiple IAs; and presence of concurrent pathology
  6. Participant has pre-procedure (obtained up to 14 days prior to the procedure day) PRU value between 60-200
  7. Participant or a legally authorized representative (LAR) provides written using the IRB/REB-approved consent form and agrees to comply with protocol follow-up and requirements

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Target aneurysm is unsuitable for flow diverter treatment
  2. Subject requires more than one flow diverter for target aneurysm treatment
  3. Has vessel characteristics, such as severe tortuosity, stenosis, atherosclerotic disease, or morphology that would preclude safe endovascular access to the target aneurysm necessary for treatment with the study device
  4. Received previous treatment of the target aneurysm or parent artery where it would interfere with the placement or proper apposition of the device
  5. Has a medical to study or procedure-related antiplatelet/anticoagulation medications (e.g., aspirin, clopidogrel/Plavix, ticagrelor, Prasugrel, Gp IIb/IIIa inhibitors, heparin, etc.), local or general anesthesia, or life-threatening allergy to contrast dye
  6. Has a known severe allergy to nickel, titanium or platinum
  7. Modified Rankin Score (mRS) assessment is ≥ 3 at screening or pre-procedure mRS could not be assessed
  8. The health of the participant or the validity of the study outcomes (e.g., high risk of neurologic events, worsening of clinical condition in the last 30 days) may be compromised by the participant's enrollment
  9. Subarachnoid hemorrhage occurred within 30 days prior to enrollment
  10. Intracranial parenchymal hemorrhage occurred within 60 days prior to enrollment
  11. Major surgery (including previous intracranial implant) occurred within previous 30 days or is planned in the next 120 days after treatment date
  12. Has more than one IA that requires treatment within 120 days of treatment date
  13. Received previous intracranial implant associated with the symptomatic or vascular distribution within the past 12 weeks prior to treatment date
  14. Requires adjunctive coiling during SVB procedure
  15. Chronic anticoagulation therapy is ongoing or known coagulopathy exists
  16. Has other known serious concurrent medical conditions such as active bacterial infection, heart disease (including atrial fibrillation, pacemaker, recent myocardial infarction [\< 12 weeks], symptomatic congestive heart failure, or carotid stenosis), kidney failure (e.g., >2.0mg/dl serum creatinine) or any other non-neurological disease-related acute life threatening illness to be treated in this trial, pulmonary disease, uncontrolled diabetes, progressive neurologic disorders, cancer requiring active treatment (e.g., chemotherapy, etc.) or on palliative care, vasculitis, high risk of ischemic stroke or recent stroke (within 30 days)
  17. is less than 5 years due to other illness or condition (in addition to an intracranial aneurysm)
  18. Unable to complete study follow-up due to dementia or psychiatric disorder, substance abuse, or history of noncompliance with medical advice
  19. Women who are pregnant or nursing at the time of enrollment or women who wish to become pregnant during the length of study participation
  20. Presence of intracranial mass (tumor, except meningioma that doesn't require surgery for 1 year) or non-treated arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in the territory of the target aneurysm
  21. Participation in any other study which can influence collection of valid data under this study
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Informed consent

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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.

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.

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

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Silk Vista Baby (SVB) Flow Diverter

    Participants meeting eligibility criteria will undergo endovascular treatment of a single unruptured intracranial aneurysm using the SVB Flow Diverter.

    Device: Silk Vista Baby (SVB) Flow Diverter

Interventions

  • DeviceSilk Vista Baby (SVB) Flow Diverter

    The Silk Vista Baby (SVB) flow diverter is indicated for use in the endovascular treatment of adults (22 years of age and older) with unruptured small or medium (≤12mm) wide-neck (neck width ≥ 4mm or dome-to-neck ratio \< 2), saccular or fusiform, intracranial aneurysms at or distal to the ICA terminus, in SVB-amenable anterior and posterior anatomy arising from a parent vessel with a minimum diameter of 1.5mm and a maximum diameter of 3.4mm.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of participants with complete occlusion of the treated IA based on the Raymond-Roy I classification without significant parent artery stenosis (>50%), as evaluated by an independent Core Lab, without retreatment of the target aneurysm

    Time frame: 1 year post procedure

Secondary outcomes

  1. Complete occlusion of the treated aneurysm using the Raymond-Roy scale without significant parent artery stenosis (>50%), as adjudicated by an independent Core Lab, without retreatment of target IA

    Time frame: 180 days and 2 years post-procedure

  2. Complete occlusion of the treated aneurysm using the O'Kelly Marotta scale without significant parent artery stenosis (>50%), as adjudicated by an independent Core Lab, without retreatment of the target IA

    Time frame: 180 days, 1 year, and 2 years post-procedure

  3. Clinically acceptable occlusion of the treated aneurysm using the Raymond-Roy scale without significant parent artery stenosis (>50%) as adjudicated by an independent Core Lab, without retreatment of the target IA

    Time frame: Within 180 days, 1 year, and 2 years post procedure

  4. Unplanned alternative treatment of the target IA

    Time frame: Within 1 year post procedure

  5. Device deployment success rate

    Time frame: Index procedure

  6. Device migration rate

    Time frame: 180 days, 1 year, and 2 years post procedure

  7. Evolution of occlusion between post-procedure and timepoints listed under timeframe, as adjudicated by an independent Core Lab

    Time frame: 1 year and 2 years post procedure

  8. Occurrence of parent artery occlusion

    Time frame: 1 year and 2 years post procedure

  9. Occurrence of >50% In-Stent Stenosis at the target IA

    Time frame: 1 year and 2 years post procedure

Other outcomes

  1. AEs will be analyzed with a specific summary rate of intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, all cause mortality including neurological death as adjudicated by the CEC

    Time frame: 30 days, 180 days, 1 year, and 2 years post procedure

  2. Occurrence of all SVB device and/or procedure related AEs

    Time frame: 30 days, 180 days, 1 year, and 2 years post procedure

  3. Proportion of participants with no change, improvement, or deterioration of mRS

    Time frame: 2 years post procedure

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Study locations

6 of 6 sites recruiting
  • Vascular and Neuroscience Institute of Southern California
    Thousand Oaks, California 91360, United States
    Recruiting
    • Priya Kaushal · Contact
  • John Muir Health - Walnut Creek Hospital
    Walnut Creek, California 94598, United States
    Recruiting
    • Melanie Aaron · Contact
  • Baptist Health
    Jacksonville, Florida 32207, United States
    Recruiting
    • Teresa Nicol · Contact
  • Baystate Medical Center
    Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, United States
    Recruiting
    • Jay Gutta · Contact
  • University of Buffalo Neurosurgery
    Buffalo, New York 14221, United States
    Recruiting
    • Ellen Carl · Contact
  • St. Michael's Hospital/Unity Health
    Toronto, Ontario M5C 1R6, Canada
    Recruiting
    • Eileen Liu · Contact
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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

1 registry update 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

Started Feb 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2030, 48 months after the start.

Of 48 industry-sponsored interventional studies with no phase under Intracranial Aneurysm, half reached primary completion within 28 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 19 and three quarters within 49. This study's planned 48 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 104 studies reached it within 39 months; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 69.

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

Registered
Nov 3, 2025
First posted
Nov 5, 2025
StartActual
Feb 4, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Feb 2030
CompletionEst.
Feb 2031
Last update
Oct 5, 2026
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.
Sites
1 site added
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  • University of Buffalo Neurosurgery · Buffalo, United States
Oct 5, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 5, 2026
    1 site added
    Show site
    • University of Buffalo Neurosurgery · Buffalo, United States
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07225075
Lead sponsor
Balt USA
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 5, 2025
Start date
Feb 4, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 5, 2026

Study contacts

Gregory Tirrell
Contact
gregory.tirrell@baltgroup.com
949-788-1443
Richelle Massey
Contact
richelle.massey@baltgroup.com
Ricardo Hanel, MD. PhD
principal investigator · Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville
Vitor M Pereira, MD, MSc
principal investigator · St. Michael's Hospital/Unity Health

Oversight

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