Could a simple heart catheter test predict serious complications after myocarditis?
NCT ID NCT07676201
First seen Jun 30, 2026 · Last updated Jul 01, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study investigates whether measuring blood flow in the heart's smallest blood vessels (microcirculation) can help predict serious health events within a year after a person is hospitalized for acute myocarditis. Researchers will use a special technique during a standard heart catheterization to assess microvascular function. The goal is to see if impaired microcirculation is linked to outcomes like death, heart failure, or recurrence of myocarditis in 106 adult patients.
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 a link is found, doctors might use this measurement to identify high-risk patients and tailor follow-up care.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It cannot prove cause and effect, and the findings may not change current practice.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 106 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jul 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2026
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
patients hospitalized in the cardiology department at CHUGA between 2015 and 2025 who had a diagnosis of myocarditis confirmed by cardiac MRI.
- 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: * Male or female patients over the age of 18. * Patients hospitalized between June 2015 and July 2025. * Patients who presented with chest pain and at least 1 diagnostic criterion; or, in the absence of chest pain, at least 2 of the following diagnostic criteria: * Electrocardiographic abnormalities (ST-segment elevation or depression, T-wave inversions, conduction disturbances such as type 3 atrioventricular block), * Elevated troponin levels, * Abnormal kinematics on echocardiography. * Associated with MRI findings of ≥2 tissue abnormalities (edema, hyperemia, myocardial fibrosis). * Coronary angiography performed during the initial hospitalization * Patient enrolled in or eligible for a social security program. * Patient who has expressed consent to participate. Exclusion Criteria: * Absence of coronary artery disease confirmed by coronary angiography * Myocarditis secondary to immunotherapy * Presence of documented coronary artery disease (coronary angiography or cardiac CT) * Presence of cardiomyopathy (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy) * Infiltrative heart disease (sarcoidosis or cardiac amyloidosis) * Severe valvular heart disease * Takotsubo syndrome * Constrictive or chronic pericarditis * Loeffler's endocarditis * Left ventricular noncompaction * Cardiac tumor * Pulmonary embolism * Coronary spasm * Patients covered by Articles L1121-5 through L1121-8 of the Public Health Code (pregnant women, women in labor, and breastfeeding women; persons deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision; adults under guardianship)
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