Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction: a Multicenter Prospective Study

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Conditions studied: Ventricular Septal Defect, Papillary Muscle Rupture, Cardiac Rupture, Pseudoaneurysm

In brief

In 2019, the international study titled "CAUTION Study - 1" (MeChanical complicAtions of acUte myocardial infarcTion: an InternatiOnal multiceNter cohort study), a retrospective multicenter study, was launched and registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT03848429). This study highlighted the outcomes of surgical treatment of post-infarction mechanical complications in patients operated between 2000 and 2019. Several scientific publications have resulted from this registry, which involved 27 international centers and recruited about 800 patients. However, retrospective studies are inherently limited by factors such as selection bias and a high number of missing data, affecting data interpretation and consistency of results. Moreover, most registries report only data about surgical patients or, in rare situations, about patients treated percutaneously. To overcome these limitations, a prospective study has been designed to collect more precise and focused data and achieve results that better reflect the current clinical practice, including all the patients diagnosed with post-infarction mechanical complications, independently from the treatment assigned. "CAUTION Study - 2" is, therefore, a prospective, multicenter cohort study with the primary aim of analyzing the outcomes of surgical, percutaneous and conservative treatment of post-infarction mechanical complications in the contemporary era.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT06676345
Run by
Maastricht University Medical Center
People needed
800
Starts
2025-01-01
Expected to finish
2032-12-31
Last updated by the study team
2025-05-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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