Heart valve clip could cut hospital visits for heart failure patients
NCT ID NCT01920698
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study tested a device called MitraClip, which is a small clip placed through a tube in a vein to repair a leaky mitral valve in the heart. The trial included 304 people with severe mitral regurgitation and heart failure. Half got the clip plus standard medical care, and half got standard care alone. Researchers tracked deaths and unplanned hospital stays for heart failure over two years to see if the clip helped.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- MitraClip device (a clip implanted via catheter to repair the mitral valve)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a less invasive treatment option for people with severe mitral regurgitation, potentially reducing deaths and hospital stays.
- What could go wrong
- This is a completed trial, but results may not apply to all patients. The procedure carries risks like bleeding, infection, or valve damage, and may not work for everyone.
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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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304 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2013
- Finished
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Mar 2019
- 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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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: * Age \> 18 years old * Severe secondary mitral regurgitation characterised, according to the European guidelines and recommendations, by a regurgitant volume\>30 mL/beat or an effective regurgitant orifice\>20 mm². * New York heart Association Class≥ II. * Left ventricular ejection fraction between 15% and 40% * Minimum of 1 hospitalization for heart failure within 12 months preceding randomization * Optimal standard of care therapy for heart failure according to investigator. * Not eligible for a mitral surgery intervention according to the Heart Team. * Willingness to participate in the study and signed written informed consent * Affiliation to a health insurance system or a similar system Exclusion Criteria: * Eligible for a mitral surgery intervention according to the Heart Team. * Primary mitral regurgitation. * Myocardial infarction or coronary bypass grafting surgery within three months prior to randomization. * Cardiac resynchronization therapy within three months prior to randomization. * Cardioversion within three months prior to randomization * Transcatheter aortic valve implantation within three months prior to randomization * Need for any cardiovascular surgery (including registration on cardiac transplant list). * Coronary angioplasty within one month prior to randomization. * Previous surgical mitral valve repair. * Renal replacement therapy. * Active infection requiring current antibiotic therapy. * Severe hepatic insufficiency. * Stroke within three months prior to randomization. * Concurrent medical condition with a life expectancy of less than 12 months. * Uncontrolled arterial hypertension. * Hypersensitivity to nitinol. * Participation to another trial. * Pregnancy. * No affiliation to a health insurance system. * Legal protection measure (guardianship or curatorship)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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APHP Hôpital Henri Mondor
Créteil, France
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Aphp Hopital Bichat
Paris, France
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CH Annecy Genevois
Metz-Tessy, 74370, France
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CHRU La Cavale Blanche
Brest, France
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CHRU La Milétrie
Poitiers, France
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CHRU de Tours
Tours, France
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CHU Caen
Caen, 14000, France
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CHU Rouen
Rouen, France
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CHU d'Angers
Angers, 49933, France
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CHU de Grenoble
Grenoble, 38700, France
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Centre Cardiologique du Nord
Saint-Denis, France
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Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue
Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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Centre chirurgicale Ambroise Paré
Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200, France
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Chu de Besancon
Besançon, France
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Chu de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
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Chu de Lille
Lille, France
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Chu de Montpellier
Montpellier, France
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Chu de Nancy
Nancy, France
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Chu de Nantes
Nantes, France
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Chu de Rennes
Rennes, France
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Chu de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
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Chu de Toulouse
Toulouse, France
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Clinique Cardiologique Saint Gatien
Tours, France
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Clinique Du Millenaire
Montpellier, France
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Clinique Pasteur
Toulouse, 31076, France
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Clinique du Tonkin
Villeurbanne, France
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Groupe Hospitalier La Salpétrière
Paris, 75013, France
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Groupement Hospitalier Est
Bron, France
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Hopital de La Timone
Marseille, France
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Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
Paris, 75015, France
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Hôpital Gabriel Montpied
Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
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Hôpital Nord
Saint-Etienne, 42055, France
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Hôpital Pasteur
Nice, 06001, France
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Hôpital Saint-Joseph
Marseille, 13285, France
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Hôpital privé Clairval
Marseille, France
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Hôpital privé de Parly 2
Le Chesnay, 78150, France
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Hôpital privé le Bois
Lille, France
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Institut Arnault Tzanck
Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France
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Institut Hospitalier Jacques Cartier
Massy, France
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Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
Paris, 75014, France
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