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Renal Artery Denervation in Chronic Heart Failure

NCT01584700 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2016-08-23

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Summary

Heart failure is a common condition with debilitating symptoms and a poor prognosis. Patients with heart failure have a massively overactive sympathetic nervous system which attempts to compensate for their poorly functioning heart. This ultimately has only detrimental effects.

One of the principle mediators for this sympathetic response is found in the nerve cells in the kidneys. Whilst a significant proportion of medications used to treat heart failure act on these harmful pathways, none target the kidney sympathetic-nerve cells specifically. Additionally, because of their multiple sites of action these drugs all have side effects.

A new procedure that has recently been developed for the treatment of high blood pressure is renal denervation. This involves inserting a small catheter through the femoral artery and passing it to the kidney artery under x-ray guidance. From there, using radiofrequency waves, the sympathetic nerves within the kidney can be destroyed.

The investigators anticipate that this procedure will have a significant positive effect on patients with heart failure and aim to perform a pilot safety study on 7 individuals with advanced heart failure to assess its safety and effectiveness. The investigators hypothesise that renal artery denervation will lead to significant clinical and biochemical improvements in patients with marked heart failure.

Conditions

  • Congestive Cardiac Failure

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Renal Artery Denervation

Radiofrequency ablation of the renal artery sympathetic outflow tract.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Imperial College London

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Justin E Davies, PhD · Imperial College London

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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