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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2024
Main ID:  NCT03033771
Date of registration: 19/01/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Cardiatis
Public title: Dragon Study Europe
Scientific title: Evaluation of the Safety and Performance of the Multilayer Flow Modulator (MFM) for the Treatment of Chronic Type B Aortic Dissection
Date of first enrolment: January 2016
Target sample size: 27
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03033771
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Bulgaria Romania Turkey
Contacts
Name:     Victor Costache, MD PhD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Sanador Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age over 18

- Life expectancy > 12 months

- Informed consent understood, signed and patient agrees to all follow-up visits

- Chronic type B aortic dissection must be presenting with at least one of the following
factors:

- Uncontrollable hypertension

- Persistent back/chest pain despite medical treatment

- Expansion of aortic diameter (false lumen and total diameter)

- With risk of progression, i.e. partial thrombosis of the false lumen

- Healthy proximal and distal landing zone

- Adequate arterial anatomy to perform EVAR by MFM

- Healthy branches and collaterals (no stenosis or previously treated by angioplasty)

- The patient must be available for the appropriate follow-up visits for the study
duration

Exclusion Criteria:

- Stage 4 or 5 Renal Insufficiency as per K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for
chronic kidney disease (GFR < 29ml/min/1.73m²)

- Dissection or aneurysm rupture, impending or contained rupture

- Aortic root aneurysm

- Pleural effusion untreated at the procedure time

- Prior all surgical procedure within 30 days unless procedure is in preparation for
device implantation or planned within 30 days post stent deployment

- Myocardial infarction or cerebral vascular accident within 6 weeks of treatment

- Presence/suspicion of connective tissue disorders, for example, Marfan or
Ehlers-Danlos etc.

- Contraindications to the anticoagulant or/ and antiplatelet medications

- Thrombocytopenia

- Allergic reaction to a contrast agent

- Patient with undergoing or planned chemotherapy

- History of bleeding disorder (coagulopathy) or thrombophilia

- Patient with atrial fibrillation who are under anticoagulation therapy

- Presence/suspicion of infection (for example: mycotic aorta)

- The use of the MFM with stent-grafts or previously implanted stent-grafts

- Pregnant or breastfeeding woman

- Patients included in another clinical study

- Severe left ventricular dysfunction

- Significant arrhythmias

- Severe valvular disease



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Aortic Dissection Type B
Intervention(s)
Device: Implantation with the Multilayer Flow Modulator (MFM)
Primary Outcome(s)
Re-establishment of the flow inside the true lumen [Time Frame: 12 months]
Re-establishment of the flow inside the true lumen [Time Frame: 30 days]
Keeping all branches patent [Time Frame: 30 days]
Keeping all branches patent [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Mortality at 30 days [Time Frame: 30 days]
Number of Serious Adverse Events [Time Frame: 30 days, 12 months, 24 months and 36 months]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (Fluoroscopy time) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report.]
Technical Success [Time Frame: The technical success is evaluated/recorded post-procedure and presented in the 12 months report]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (Estimated Blood loss) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report.]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (Contrast Volume) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (time to hospital discharge) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report.]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (Anesthesia time) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report.]
Procedural/in-hospital evaluations (procedure time) [Time Frame: The Procedural/in-hospital evaluation are recorded during hospital stay and collected data is presented in the 12 months report.]
Secondary ID(s)
04-2015
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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