Heart study reveals hidden link between blood vessels and muscle blockage
NCT ID NCT04129905
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at how blood vessel function relates to heart blockage in people with a genetic heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Researchers measured blood flow and vessel flexibility in 40 adults. The goal was to understand the connection, not to test a treatment.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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40 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2019
- Finished
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Dec 2021
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
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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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * Patients and volunteers: * Adults (age ≥18 years), male or female, * For female in age, efficient contraception will be required and a negative pregnancy test will be required, * Signed informed consent form will required for each included subject after having read the information note, * Affiliated to the national social security system, * Patients: .Patients diagnosed to have HCM secondary to sarcomeric mutation or to Fabry disease, symptomatic (dyspnea on exertion and/or chest pains during exercise), * Healthy volunteers: * Subjects without known cardiac disease, * No smokers. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients and volunteers: * No cardiac pathology reducing life expectancy to less than 12 months (cancer), * Unbalanced arterial hypertension (systolic \>160 mmHg and/or diastolic \>120 mmHg), * Pregnancy or breastfeeding, * Major obesity \> 140 kg, * Impossibility or refusal to give or sign the consent form, * Subject in period of exclusion relative to an other protocol, * Subject deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, * Major protected by the Law * Patients: * Atrial fibrillation at the time of inclusion * Valvulopathy with severity greater than moderate.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Hospital, Bordeaux
Pessac, 33604, France
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