Customized grafts could repair dangerous aortic aneurysms without open surgery
NCT ID NCT06657794
First seen Jun 29, 2026 · Last updated Jun 30, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests a physician-modified stent graft to treat juxtarenal aortic aneurysms—a bulge in the aorta near the kidneys—in people who are too high-risk for open surgery. The graft is altered during the procedure to create openings that keep blood flowing to vital branch vessels. The study aims to see if the device is safe and effective in the short and long term, up to five years.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Physician-Modified Terumo Aortic TREO abdominal stent graft system
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could offer a less invasive treatment option for people with complex aortic aneurysms who are not candidates for open surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 15 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. Risks include graft infection, kidney failure, or aneurysm rupture.
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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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About 15 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Feb 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2030
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.
- 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: All patients must meet all of the following inclusion criteria to be eligible for enrollment into the study: 1. Patient is ≥ 18 years of age 2. Patients who are male or non-pregnant female (females of child bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test prior to enrollment into the study) 3. Patient or Legally Authorized Representative has signed an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved Informed Consent Form 4. Patient has a juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm that meets at least one of the following: 1. An aneurysm with a maximum diameter of ≥ 5.5 cm for male (≥ 5.0 cm for female) or 2 times the normal diameter just proximal to the aneurysm using orthogonal (i.e., perpendicular to the centerline) measurements 2. Aneurysm with a history of growth \> 0.5 cm in 6 months 3. Saccular aneurysm deemed at significant risk for rupture 4. Symptomatic aneurysm 5. Ruptured aneurysm 5. Patient has patent iliac or femoral arteries, with or without the use of conduit, that will allow endovascular access with the physician modified endovascular graft. 6. Patient has a suitable non-aneurysmal proximal aortic neck of ≥ 2 mm inferior to the most distal renal artery ostium. 7. Patient has a suitable non-aneurysmal distal iliac artery length (seal zone) of ≥ 15mm. The resultant repair should preserve patency in at least one hypogastric artery. 8. Patient has a suitable non-aneurysmal proximal aortic neck diameter between 20 and 32 mm, averaged across the diameters at the Celiac, SMA, at the lowest patent renal artery and at the midpoint of the renal arteries. 9. Patient has suitable non-aneurysmal distal common iliac diameters between 8 and 20 mm. 10. Patient has juxtarenal aortic neck angulation ≤ 60° 11. Target branch vessel diameter ≥ 5 mm. 12. Patient must be willing to comply with all required follow-up exams. Exclusion Criteria: Patients that meet ANY of the following are not eligible for enrollment into the study: 1. Patient has a mycotic aneurysm or has an active systemic or local infection that may increase the risk of endovascular infection 2. Patient has unstable angina (defined as angina with a progressive increase in symptoms, new onset at rest or nocturnal angina, or onset of prolonged angina) 3. Patient has a major surgical or interventional procedure, not related to the endovascular repair, planned within +/- 30 days of the AAA repair. 4. Patient has history of an aortopathic connective tissue disease (e.g. Marfan's or Ehler's-Danlos syndrome). 5. Patient has a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to anticoagulation or contrast media that is not amenable to pre-treatment. 6. Patient has known allergy or intolerance to stainless steel, nitinol or gold (gold-coated tungsten). 7. Patient has a body habitus that would inhibit X-ray visualization of the aorta 8. Patient has a limited life expectancy of less than 1 year 9. Patient is currently participating in another investigational device or drug clinical trial 10. Patient has other medical, social or psychological conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, preclude them from receiving the pretreatment, required treatment, and post-treatment procedures and evaluations. 11. Thrombus or excessive calcification within the neck of the aneurysm 12. Branch vessel stenosis ≥ 80% 13. Patient treatable on label with FDA approved EVAR or FEVAR device and can wait for device availability. 14. Subject is willing and eligible to enroll in a manufacturer-sponsored study at the investigational site, or the subject is willing and eligible to participate in a study with a manufacturer-made device at another institution.
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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
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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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Cleveland Clinic
RECRUITINGCleveland, Ohio, 44195, United States
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