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Virus Therapy

Procedure: Heart Transplantation for Heart Failure

N/A
Waitlist Available
Research Sponsored by Loma Linda University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 15 months
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Study Summary

This trial will test whether it is safe and effective to transplant hearts from donors with HCV into recipients who do not have the virus.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~15 months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 15 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Patient Survival Rate

Trial Design

1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Experimental: Recipient of HCV positive heart graftExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
A single center, open-label, pilot study examining 10 adult HCV negative heart transplant subjects who will receive an HCV infected graft. Target start date for antiviral therapy will be within 3 months after heart transplantation.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Procedure: Heart Transplantation
2020
N/A
~10

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Loma Linda UniversityLead Sponsor
306 Previous Clinical Trials
260,982 Total Patients Enrolled
2 Trials studying Heart Failure
74 Patients Enrolled for Heart Failure

Frequently Asked Questions

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Hepatitis C Virus (HVC) Positive Heart Grafts in HCV Negative Recipients
Dmirty Abramov 2020. "Hepatitis C Virus (HVC) Positive Heart Grafts in HCV Negative Recipients". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04452578.
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