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A PROSPECTIVE EUROPEAN VALIDATION COHORT FOR STEREOTACTIC THERAPY OF RE-ENTRANT TACHYCARDIA

Descrizione del progetto

Trattamento non invasivo della tachicardia ventricolare

La tachicardia ventricolare è una condizione cardiaca pericolosa per la vita che può essere trattata con ablazione con catetere e farmaci. Tuttavia, questo trattamento non impedisce la ricomparsa della condizione, e le difficoltà tecniche o il rifiuto del paziente limitano la sua efficacia. Mentre la radioablazione stereotassica dell’aritmia (STAR) è un’opzione alternativa di trattamento non invasivo, mancano studi che convalidino questo metodo. Il progetto STOPSTORM, finanziato dall’UE, convaliderà clinicamente il trattamento STAR, integrando tutti i dati in uno studio di coorte di convalida e sistematizzando il pretrattamento e il follow-up per raccogliere i set di dati e la potenza statistica necessari per uno STAR sicuro ed efficace. Il progetto chiarirà anche i protocolli, definirà e modellerà la migliore regione bersaglio e la dose, e determinerà i gruppi di pazienti e le cardiopatie che rispondono al trattamento STAR.

Obiettivo

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an unpredictable and potentially deadly condition and should be promptly treated with catheter ablation and medication, before irreversible and potentially fatal organ damage follows. Unfortunately, this combination of treatments does not prevent VT reoccurrence in 30-50% of VT patients and while they can undergo multiple invasive ablations, technical difficulties or refusal of the patient can lead to a lack of effective treatment options.

A promising novel, non-invasive treatment option for VT is stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR). Besides being non-invasive, STAR can also be used to reach locations that are inaccessible for catheter ablation, which may potentially improve effectiveness of overall VT treatment.

Small scale first in men/early phase trials have been performed for STAR, providing proof-of-concept for clinical safety and efficacy. However, patients with recurrent VT are not a homogenous group and each center deals with different inclusion criteria, imaging and/or target definition. Many questions remain and the available studies lack the power to clinically validate the approach and prepare for late stage phase III trials.

The STOPSTORM consortium sets out to consolidate all current and future European efforts to clinically validate STAR treatment by merging all data in a validation cohort study, standardising pre-treatment and follow-up, in order to collect the data sets and statistical power needed to unanimously establish clinical safety, efficacy and benefit for STAR.

The STOPSTORM consortium also sets out to refine protocols and guidelines, determine volumes of interest, define and model the optimal target region and target dose, also in relation to surrounding healthy tissues (i.e. organs at risk) and determine which patient population and underlying cardiopathies respond best to STAR. By doing so the STOPSTORM consortium paves the way to consensus and future late stage clinical trials for STAR.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-SC1-2020-Two-Stage-RTD

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 236 666,25
Indirizzo
HEIDELBERGLAAN 100
3584 CX Utrecht
Paesi Bassi

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Regione
West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 236 666,25

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