Paracor Ventricular Support System (PVSS) for Patients With Heart Failure
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Official title
Paracor Ventricular Support System: United States Clinical Investigational Plan
Brief summary
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This is a limited safety and feasibility study to evaluate the PVSS Introducer and Paracor Ventricular Support System when used to treat patients with heart failure. The implant, which is loaded onto the delivery system, is placed over the epicardial surface of the right and left ventricles. No formal hypothesis testing will be performed; descriptive statistics will be used to summarize patient outcomes. The results of the study will be used to guide the design and sample size estimation of future studies.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00291551
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 39 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 2005 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Apr 2007 (Actual)
- Completion
- Apr 2011 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- May 21, 2012
2005 – 2011
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 12
- U.S. states
- 11
- U.S. cities
- 11
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Cardiovascular Disease | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | — |
| University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center | Denver | Colorado | 80262 | — |
| University of Florida, Division of Cardiology | Gainesville | Florida | 32610 | — |
| Emory University Hospital | Atlanta | Georgia | 30322 | — |
| University of Maryland Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21201 | — |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21287 | — |
| Minneapolis VA Medical Center | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55417 | — |
| Mid America Heart Institute | Kansas City | Missouri | 64111 | — |
| BryanLGH Heart Institute | Lincoln | Nebraska | 68506 | — |
| The Ohio State University Heart Center | Columbus | Ohio | 43210 | — |
| Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center | Hershey | Pennsylvania | 17033 | — |
| The Methodist Hospital | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
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- Last update posted May 21, 2012 · Synced Oct 3, 2026
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