Arm or groin? study seeks safer route for heart valve procedure
NCT ID NCT07399392
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at 600 people getting a new heart valve through a tube in the leg (TAVI). Doctors want to know if using a second tube in the arm (radial artery) instead of the groin (femoral artery) causes fewer bleeding or blood vessel problems. The goal is to find the safest way to do this common heart procedure.
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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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About 600 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- 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: * Patients scheduled for transfemoral TAVI * Heart team agrees on eligibility of TAVI * Written informed consent * Age \> 18 years Exclusion Criteria: * Non accessible radial arteries as judged by the TAVI team * Non accessible femoral arteries as judged by the TAVI team * Foreseeable problems to achieve primary transfemoral access (hostile access) * Hemodynamic instability or cardiogenic shock * Currently participating in an investigational drug or another device study * Lack of capability to give informed consent * Patient refuses TAVI
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Heart Center - Deparment for Cardiology and Angiology
RECRUITINGFreiburg im Breisgau, 79106, Germany
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