Blood-Cleansing device shows promise for dangerous pregnancy condition
NCT ID NCT02923206
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a medical device that filters a harmful protein called sFlt-1 from the blood of pregnant women with preeclampsia, a serious condition causing high blood pressure. The goal was to see if the treatment is safe and can help control the disease. The trial involved 21 participants and focused on safety for both mother and baby.
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Study facts
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- 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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21 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Sep 2016
- Finished
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Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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 to 45 years
- 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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Reduced criteria! Phase 0 Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥18 and ≤45 years; * Male or female; * Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test result at screening and practice two reliable methods of contraception throughout the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Dysfunction of cerebral nervous system and/or heart disease; * History of preexisting chronic renal disease; * Treatment with ACE inhibitors; * Therapeutic full anticoagulation therapy prior to trial entry; * Liver abnormalities; * Clinically significant pulmonary edema and/or thrombocytopenia and/or anemia; * Active hepatitis B, C, or tuberculosis infection or HIV infection * Hypersensitivity to heparin and/or citrate; * Indications that prohibit transient anticoagulation using heparin and/or ACD-A-solutions; * Known intolerance to extracorporeal procedures in general or towards one of the individual excipients or towards other supporting agents; * Drug or alcohol abuse within the last 2 years; * Lack of compliance of subject; * History or diagnosis of severe periodontitis; Phase A and B Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>18 and ≤45 years ; * Pregnant woman with pre-term preeclampsia * sFlt-1/PlGF ratio ≥85 ; * sFlt-1 level of ≥ 8000pg/mL Exclusion Criteria: Maternal exclusion criteria * History of cardiac impairments including uncontrolled arrhythmia, unstable angina, decompensated congestive heart failure or valve disease; * History of preexisting chronic renal disease (CKD stage \>3a, eGFR ≤45ml/min/1.73m²); * Treatment with ACE inhibitors; * Therapeutic full anticoagulation therapy prior to trial entry; * Signs or history of clinically significant cerebral nervous system dysfunction; * History of clinically significant liver abnormalities; * Clinically significant pulmonary edema and/or thrombocytopenia and/or anemia; * Active hepatitis B, C, tuberculosis infection or HIV-positive status; * Any condition that the investigator deems a risk to the patient or fetus in completing the trial; * Indications that prohibit transient anticoagulation using heparin and/or ACD-A-solutions; * Drug or alcohol abuse within the last 2 years; * Lack of compliance of patient; * Known intolerance to extracorporeal procedures in general or to one of the excipients or other supporting agents; * Hypersensitivity to heparin and/or citrate; * \< 30 0/7 weeks of gestation and abnormal CTG and/or abnormal Ductus venosus Doppler flow, * ≥30 0/7 weeks of gestation and Doppler evidence of umbilical artery Absent or Reversed End-Diastolic Velocity (AREDV); * Various Placental exclusion criteria; * Multiple pregnancy * History or diagnosis of severe periodontitis Fetal exclusion criteria * Any known trisomy; * Amniotic fluid index \<5cm (greatest single pocket \<2cm); * Estimated fetal weight \<3rd percentile for gestational age; * Fetus which are at high risk of heart disease; * Fetus with congenital heart defect; * Fetal signs of bleeding; * Hydrops fetalis; * Pathological fetal Doppler flow of the ductus venosus (absent A-wave in two measurements); * Evidence of severe fetal malformations; * Known infection of fetus; * Known severe anemia.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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Universitätsklinikum Köln
Cologne, 50937, Germany
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Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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