An interventional study of patients with aortic clamping with preconditioning and patients with aortic clamping without preconditioning in Aneurysm Aortic, sponsored by University Hospital, Rouen. Not yet recruiting at 7 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 85 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-09.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Rouen · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Juxta-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are challenging to treat with standard endovascular techniques (EVAR) due to their proximity to the renal arteries. Open surgical repair continues to be used in patients unsuitable for EVAR but carries a high risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), up to 24%. Postoperative AKI is a strong predictor of both short- and long-term cardiovascular mortality. The KDIGO criteria are used to better define and stage AKI. Pharmacological prevention strategies have shown limited effectiveness, prompting interest in ischemic preconditioning (IPC). Remote IPC has shown mixed results in cardiac and vascular surgery, depending on patient risk and protocols used. Local IPC, applied directly near the renal arteries, has shown promising renal protection in animal models. However, this technique has never been clinically tested in humans. We propose here a randomized trial to assess the efficacy of local IPC before suprarenal aortic clamping during open repair of juxta-renal AAA to reduce postoperative AKI.
222 studies on the registry are indexed under Aortic Aneurysm; 63 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 206 is above the median of 62 across 101 interventional studies indexed under Aortic Aneurysm.
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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.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
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).
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.
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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.
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Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
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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).
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
patients with aortic clamping with preconditioning
Procedure: patients with aortic clamping with preconditioning
patients with aortic clamping without preconditioning
Procedure: patients with aortic clamping without preconditioning
Experimental group (arm 1) consists of patients receiving open juxtarenal aortic aneurysm surgery with direct preconditioning by clamping the suprarenal aorta, which starts after randomization. The procedure for IPC will be achieved by two cycles of supra-renal aortic cross clamping during 5 minutes followed by an unclamping period of 5 minutes before starting the supra-renal aortic cross clamping needed to perform surgery. The level of aortic cross clamping used for IPC will be that required for aortic repair.
Control group (arm 2) consists of patients receiving open juxtarenal aortic aneurysm surgery without preconditionning
To demonstrate the efficacy of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) applied closely to the supra-renal aorta with respect to the occurrence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) among patients undergoing open juxtarenal aortic aneurysm surgery.
The primary endpoint is the occurrence of a postoperative AKI of stage \> 1 before the morning visit on day 8. We use the KDIGO work group's definition of AKI.
Time frame: Day 8
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