New drug could get heart surgery patients home days earlier
NCT ID NCT07357675
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jul 28, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This Phase 3 trial tests whether a drug called EA-230 can help people recover faster after coronary artery bypass surgery. About 300 adults scheduled for elective bypass surgery will receive either EA-230 or a placebo during the operation. Researchers will measure how long participants stay in the ICU and hospital, and whether they have fewer complications.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- EA-230 (a drug given intravenously during surgery)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, EA-230 could help people recover faster after bypass surgery, spending less time in the ICU and hospital with fewer serious complications.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early Phase 3 trial, so results are not yet proven. The drug may not work as well in a larger group, and there is always a risk of side effects not seen in earlier studies.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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About 300 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Aug 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients aged ≥18 years, both male and female. 2. Patients scheduled for elective on-pump CABG with at least 3 bypasses, with or without valve replacement. 3. Willing and able to give written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients undergoing non-elective on-pump CABG (i.e., emergency surgery). Emergency surgery is defined as planned surgery within 24 hours of diagnosis. 2. Cardiogenic shock or hemodynamic instability that requires inotropes, vasopressors, or other mechanical devices, such as an intra-aortic balloon counter-pulsation (IABP), within 24 hours prior to surgery. 3. Use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or intra-aortic balloon pump or other cardiac devices, within 7 days prior to surgery. 4. A requirement for any of the following within 7 days prior to surgery: defibrillator or permanent pacemaker, mechanical ventilation, IABP, LVAD, or other forms of mechanical circulatory support. 5. Required cardiopulmonary resuscitation within 14 days prior to cardiac surgery. 6. Known chronic liver disorder with Child-Pugh C classification. 7. Confirmed or treated endocarditis requiring antimicrobial or antiviral treatment within 30 days prior to surgery or other current active infection requiring antimicrobial or antiviral treatment within 14 days prior to surgery. 8. Ongoing sepsis (as defined by SEPSIS-3) within 2 weeks of screening or, in the opinion of the investigator, an untreated clinically significant infection (viral or bacterial) prior to or at Screening and before randomization. 9. Immuno-compromised patients, as self-reported or as observed in medical records, including patients: 1. with solid organ transplantation. 2. known to be positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). 3. that use immunosuppressive drugs or have received recent chemotherapy, at the discretion of the Investigator and including patients; i. with active malignancy who have undergone chemotherapy within 30 days prior to trial entry. ii. receiving chronic corticosteroid treatment equivalent to a prednisone dose of 10 mg or higher per day, within 30 days prior to trial entry, or an equivalent dose of another corticosteroid or any other anti-inflammatory or inflammation-suppressing medications such as interleukin blockers, methotrexate or similar therapies. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs are not exclusionary. 10. Patients with hematological disorders (known disorders from myeloid and/or lymphoid origin, leucopenia (both active and in remission)). 11. Known severe renal disease requiring dialysis, or a known estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) prior to admission of \< 20 ml/min/1.73 m2. 12. Previous receipt of EA-230. 13. Known hypersensitivity to the IMP. 14. Use of any investigational drug within 1 month or 5 half-lives of said investigational drug (whichever is longer) prior to IMP administration in this trial. Participation in an observational clinical trial is not exclusionary. 15. Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant during the trial or within 28 days after IMP administration (WOCBP must have a negative pregnancy test prior to entry into the trial). 16. Female patients of childbearing potential who are not willing/able to use adequate contraception and refrain from donating ova from enrolment and up to 28 days after IMP administration (contraceptive requirements are detailed in Annex 5. Contraceptive Guidance). 17. Male patients who are not willing/able to use adequate contraception (if their partners is of childbearing potential) and refrain from donating sperm from enrolment and up to 28 days after IMP administration (contraceptive requirements are detailed in Annex 5. Contraceptive Guidance). 18. Inability to personally provide written informed consent. 19. Known or suspected of not being able to comply with the trial protocol, at the discretion of the Investigator. 20. Any other condition which, in the Investigator's opinion, will interfere with completion of the trial. 21. Being an employee of the Investigator or trial site with direct involvement in the proposed trial or other studies under the direction of that Investigator or trial site or being a family member of an employee of the Investigator with direct involvement in the proposed trial.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
6 sites in 4 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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MAYO clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States
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Medisch Spectrum Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
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RadboudUMC
Nijmegen, Netherlands
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St Thomas' Hospital
London, United Kingdom
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UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
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UZ Gent
Ghent, Belgium
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