The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of intracoronary human umbilical Wharton's jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cell (WJ-MSC) transfer in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction.
It has been demonstrated that MSCs have the potential to differentiate into cardiomyocytes both in vitro and in vivo. Several clinical trials have been performed using autologous bone marrow-derived MSCs, but the results of these trials have been unsatisfactory because of a low number of MSCs in older patients and in those with coronary heart disease. WJ-MSCs from the human umbilical cord matrix which are of epiblastic origin and contain both human embryonic stem cell (hESC) and human mesenchymal stem cell markers appear to have a number of important advantages: they do not raise ethical issues, are widely multipotent, are not tumorigenic, and are not immunogenetic. Because of a short population doubling time they can be rapidly scaled up in large numbers. We performed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial, randomly assigning 160 patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction to receive an intracoronary infusion of WJ-MSCs or placebo medium into the infarct artery 4-7 days after successful reperfusion therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
160
intracoronary infusion of WJ-MSCs or placebo medium into the infarct artery 4-7 days after successful reperfusion therapy.
Fu Cheng Lu 6
Beijing, China
Quantify myocardium metabolic and perfusion measured by F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18-FDG) postremission tomography (PET) and 99 mTctetrofosmine single-photon (SPET), as well as global left ventricular ejection fraction measured by echocardiography.
The primary endpoints were differences between the two treatments and from baseline to 4 months in quantitative myocardial metabolic and perfusion images, as measured by 18F-FDG positron emission tomography and 99 mTctetrofosmine single-photon imaging. Left ventricular ejection fraction is measured by 16-segment 2-D echocardiography.
Time frame: 4 months- 1 year
Secondary endpoints: safety will be determined by the assessment of major adverse coronary events (MACE).
Safety will be determined by the assessment of major adverse coronary events (MACE) defined as cardiac death, peri-procedural myocardial infarction, or any repeat coronary intervention at 4 months-1year. Furthermore, safety is also determined by the occurrence of stent thrombosis, arrhythmias events. immune system disorders. The trial will be monitored by a Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and the trial will be discontinued in case of safety concerns.
Time frame: 4 months-1year
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