New PET scan could spot hidden heart disease
NCT ID NCT07538518
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 04, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether a special PET-CT scan using a drug called evuzamitide can detect signs of cardiac amyloidosis in people whose standard heart scans were unclear but who have high levels of a blood marker called TAD1. About 25 adults with heart failure or a genetic risk for this condition will receive one scan and be followed for about a month. The goal is to improve diagnosis for this serious heart disease.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 25 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Oct 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2028
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
Participants will be drawn from clinical practice registries and epidemiological ATTR-CA screening projects at UT Southwestern, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Boston Medical Center
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- 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: 1. Diagnosed as having heart failure or TTR variant allele carriers without symptoms of heart failure. 2. Non-diagnostic nuclear scintigraphy for ATTR-CA (Perugini Grade 0 or 1). 3. Elevated levels of Transthyretin Amyloid Detector-1 (TAD1). 4. No evidence of monoclonal proteins by assessment of serum kappa and lambda free light chain ratio and immunofixation of serum and urine. 5. Must have given written informed consent (signed and dated) and any authorizations required by local law and be able to comply with all study requirements. 6. Able to understand and sign the informed consent document after the nature of the study has been fully explained. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Primary amyloidosis (AL) or secondary amyloidosis (AA). 2. Ventricular assist device. 3. Disabling dementia or other mental or behavioral disease. 4. Enrollment in a clinical trial not approved for co-enrollment. 5. Continuous intravenous inotropic therapy. 6. Inability or unwillingness to comply with the study requirements. 7. Chronic kidney disease requiring hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. 8. Patients taking heparin, or heparin derivatives (e.g. low molecular weight heparins) for anticoagulation. 9. Other reason that would make the subject inappropriate for entry into this study. 10. Pregnancy or current lactational feeding of infants.
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Conditions
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Bill and Rita Clements Advanced Medical Imaging Center
Dallas, Texas, 75235-8823, United States
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York, 10032, United States
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One Boston Medical Center Place
Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, United States
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