The PEERLESS Study
Overview
Overview
This study is a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial of the FlowTriever System compared to Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (CDT) for acute intermediate-high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), and includes a non-randomized cohort of up to 150 subjects with an absolute contraindication to thrombolytics.
Key Inclusion Criteria
Key Inclusion Criteria
For a patient to be eligible for participation in this study, all of the following criteria must apply.
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Echo, computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA), or pulmonary angiographic evidence of any proximal filling defect in at least one main or lobar pulmonary artery
- Classification of intermediate-high-risk PE by ESC Guidelines 2019, including ALL of the following: clinical signs and symptoms consistent with acute PE, or PESI class III-V, or sPESI ≥1; AND hemodynamically stable; AND RV dysfunction on echocardiography or CT; AND elevated cardiac troponin levels
- Intervention planned to begin within 72 hours of the later of either: confirmed PE diagnosis; OR if transferring from another hospital, arrival at the treating hospital
- Symptom onset within 14 days of confirmed PE diagnosis
Key Exclusion Criteria
Key Exclusion Criteria
A patient will not be eligible for participation in this study if any of the following criteria apply.
- Unable to anticoagulate with heparin, enoxaparin or other parenteral antithrombin
- Index presentation with hemodynamic instability that are part of the high-risk PE definition in the ESC Guidelines 2019, including ANY of the following: cardiac arrest; OR systolic BP < 90 mmHg or vasopressors required to achieve a BP ≥90 mmHg despite adequate filling status, AND end-organ hypoperfusion; OR systolic BP < 90 mmHg or systolic BP drop ≥40 mmHg, lasting longer than 15 min and not caused by new-onset arrhythmia, hypovolemia, or sepsis
- Known sensitivity to radiographic contrast agents that, in the Investigator's opinion, cannot be adequately pre-treated
- Imaging evidence or other evidence that suggests, in the opinion of the Investigator, the patient is not appropriate for catheter-based intervention (e.g. inability to navigate to target location, clot limited to segmental/subsegmental distribution, predominately chronic clot)
- Patient has right heart clot in transit identified at baseline screening
- Life expectancy < 30 days (e.g. stage 4 cancer or severe COVID-19 infection), as determined by the Investigator
- Current participation in another drug or device study that, in the Investigator's opinion, would interfere with participation in this study
- Current or history of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) or chronic thromboembolic disease (CTED) diagnosis, per ESC 2019 guidelines
- Invasive systolic PA pressure ≥70 mmHg prior to study device entering the body
- Administration of bolus or drip/infusion thrombolytic therapy or mechanical thrombectomy for the index PE event within 48 hours prior to enrollment
- Ventricular arrhythmias refractory to treatment at the time of enrollment
- Known to have heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
- Subject has any condition for which, in the opinion of the Investigator, participation would not be in the best interest of the subject (e.g., compromise the well-being or that could prevent, limit, or confound the protocol-specified assessments)
- Subject has previously completed or withdrawn from this study
- Patient unwilling or unable to conduct the follow up visits per protocol.
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For more information about this study, please contact Clinical Research at
864-560-6812