New heart test could spare transplant patients from risky biopsies
NCT ID NCT06656065
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study is testing a new way to monitor heart transplant patients for rejection using a simple catheter-based measurement called IMR. The goal is to see if this test can identify high-risk patients and reduce the need for invasive biopsies. Researchers will follow 100 heart transplant recipients for one year.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to a safer, less invasive way to monitor heart transplant patients for rejection, potentially reducing the need for risky biopsies.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It may not change clinical practice if the IMR measurement does not reliably predict rejection or outcomes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2023
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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.
Who is studied
Heart trasplant patients that have signed informed consent and meet all inclusion and exclusion criteria for undergoing IMR assessment.
- 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: * Heart transplant patients \>18 years. * Patients who have received and signed informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with hemodynamic instability after HT, including cardiogenic shock or severe coagulopathy. * Patients with acute cellular rejection before intracoronary physiological assessment. * Patients with bronchial asthma or bronchopathy with a positive bronchodilation test, which contraindicates the use of adenosine. * Patients with epicardial coronary lesions with a resting physiological index ≤0.89 or ≤0.80 at hyperemia. * Patients unlikely to cooperate or with inability or unwillingness to give informed consent.
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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
1 site. 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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Hospital Miguel Servet
RECRUITINGZaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
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Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGL'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 08907, Spain
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