Clinical trials: Pediatric Heart Transplant, open to volunteers
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)
Autologous Thymus Transplant in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: A Pilot Study
This pilot study will look at whether putting back a child's own thymus tissue during heart surgery is safe and may help support the immune system in children with congenital heart disease (CHD).
- Trial name
- ATTT (NCT07799259)
- Testing
- Autologous Thymus Transplant
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Congenital Heart Disease, Advanced Heart Failure
TORCH-LATAM-003: Regional Advanced-Therapy Pathways for Congenital Heart Disease
TORCH-LATAM-003 is a pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial evaluating a regional pathway for children and adults with congenital heart disease and advanced cardiac and/or respiratory failure who may require heart…
- Conditions
- Congenital Heart Disease, Advanced Heart Failure, Respiratory Failure, Heart Transplantation
- Trial name
- TORCH-003 (NCT07837024)
- Testing
- TORCH Congenital Advanced Therapies Pathway (TORCH-CATP)
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- CardioVision International Tech, S.A.S. de C.V.
Heart Transplant, Pediatric Heart Transplant
Non-invasive Prediction of EArly Cardiac rEjection
Acute rejection remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients after heart transplant. In order to screen for rejection, most centers perform heart catheterizations with endomyocardial biopsies frequently…
- Conditions
- Heart Transplant, Pediatric Heart Transplant, Rejection, Cardiac MRI
- Trial name
- PEACE (NCT07770659)
- Where
- 22 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Heart-Assist Devices, Infections
Complications in Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Assistance: Evaluation of Infection Management.
Heart failure is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in children. Heart transplantation can significantly improve the prognosis of patients with severe heart failure, but access is limited by a shortage of transplants.
- Conditions
- Heart-Assist Devices, Infections, Heart Transplant Infection
- Trial name
- VADINFECT (NCT06464016)
- Testing
- Ventricular Assist Device with Berlin Heart EXCOR
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 47 people
- Sponsor
- Claude Bernard University
Congenital Heart Disease
TORCH-LATAM: A Regional Pathway to Improve Transplant Evaluation for Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease can progress to advanced cardiac or cardiopulmonary failure requiring heart, heart-lung, or, in selected congenital conditions, bilateral lung transplantation with cardiac repair.
- Trial name
- TORCH-LATAM (NCT07799272)
- Testing
- TORCH Integrated Transplant Access Pathway (TORCH-ITAP)
- Volunteers
- 600 people
- Sponsor
- CardioVision International Tech, S.A.S. de C.V.
Pediatric ALL, Transplant; Failure, Heart
HIIT in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients (MedBIKE™)
Heart transplantation is the long-term treatment for children and adults with advanced heart failure. Post-transplant outcomes have improved over time, such that 50% of pediatric heart transplant recipients (HTR) remain alive…
- Trial name
- NCT05451979
- Testing
- MedBIKE HIIT
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Heart Transplant Rejection, Immune Suppression
Mobile Video Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) for Immunosuppression Medication Adherence in Adolescent Heart Transplant Recipients
We will conduct a two-group randomized controlled trial to examine the eMocha DOT intervention with pediatric HT recipients.In this population, medication nonadherence remains a primary cause of late acute rejection (LAR)…
- Conditions
- Heart Transplant Rejection, Immune Suppression, Pediatric Heart Transplant, Medication Nonadherence
- Trial name
- NCT05732779
- Testing
- DOT intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Exocrine Pancreatic Insuficiency
Determine the Prevalence of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI) in Pediatric and Adult Participants With Alagille Syndrome After Liver Transplantation
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the prevalence of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) in a population of pediatric and adult participants with Alagille Syndrome (ALGS) post liver transplant.
- Trial name
- NCT07335523
- Testing
- Fecal Fat
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Digestive Care, Inc.
Cardiac Failure, Graft Rejection
Optimal Pediatric Heart Transplant Immunosuppression With MicroRNAs
This study aims to discover circulating microRNAs (associated with drug doses and levels) that can be used to characterize the overall immune state in pediatric heart transplant patients and predict patients that will go on to…
- Trial name
- OPTIMA (NCT06532890)
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Pediatric ALL, Congenital Heart Disease
Exercise MRI to Evaluate Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children With Heart Disease
There are many barriers to heart-healthy lifestyles in pediatric patients with acquired and congenital heart disease. Investigators want to further understand how participants heart and skeletal muscles work together during…
- Conditions
- Pediatric ALL, Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Transplantation
- Trial name
- NCT06325280
- Testing
- Exercise cardiac MRI Assessment, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Heart Transplant Infection Prevention
Safety and Efficacy of Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination in Pediatric Heart Transplantation Patients
The study is an interventional, non-randomized assessment of safety and efficacy of live Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in subjects aged 12-months to 17 years who have undergone heart transplantation.
- Trial name
- NCT07195032
- Testing
- Commercial measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Heart Failure, Transplant; Failure, Heart
EXCOR Active Driving System for the EXCOR Pediatric VAD IDE Study
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the device performance and monitor the safety and effectiveness of the Berlin Heart EXCOR Active Driving System while being used with the approved EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist…
- Conditions
- Heart Failure, Transplant; Failure, Heart, Congenital Heart Disease
- Trial name
- NCT05610787
- Testing
- EXCOR Active Driving System for Pediatric VAD
- Where
- 17 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Berlin Heart, Inc
Pediatric Heart Transplant
Non-invasive Detection of Acute Cell-mediated Graft Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Acute cardiac rejection is currently diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), but multiparametric cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) may be a non-invasive alternative by its capacity for myocardial structure and function…
- Trial name
- NCT06795958
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Transplant Patients
Search for Noninvasive Markers of "Graft Injury" in Pediatric and Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Cardiac Transplantation
This clinical tissue-based, drug-free, single-center, longitudinal study aims to validate a new diagnostic method, namely, to evaluate whether plasma levels of circulating donor free DNA in the recipient's blood (Dd-cfDNA…
- Conditions
- Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Transplant Patients, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
- Trial name
- NCT06784440
- Testing
- Evaluation of circulating donor free DNA in the recipient's blood (Dd-cfDNA: donor-derived cell free DNA)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna