VitaSmart HOPE System: Bridge to HOPE Registry

May 19, 2026 updated by: Bridge to Life Ltd.

A Post-market, Multi-center Clinical Registry to Evaluate the Safety, Effectiveness, and Real-World Utilization of the VitaSmart Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) System (Bridge to HOPE Registry)

This is a post-market, multicenter, single-arm, observational registry evaluating real-world use of the VitaSmart HOPE System under standard of care conditions. Clinical data from up to 5000 transplant recipients will be included in the registry at up to 20 U.S. transplant centers. This registry will include clinical data collected retrospectively from medical records of recipients already transplanted before the initiation of the registry and any new recipients of livers that meet donor selection criteria. This registry introduces no contact with the transplant recipient and registry participants will follow standard of care. Data will be collected through up to 5 years of standard of care clinical follow-up.

This registry represents minimal risk to the transplant recipients being studied. The participants included in this registry will have undergone transplant surgery with a deceased donor liver graft that was perfused using the VitaSmart HOPE System, a medical device that is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for commercial use in the U.S. All perfusions of deceased donor liver grafts will be performed in accordance with standard medical practice.

The objectives of this registry is to Evaluate the safety and efficacy of HOPE prior to liver transplantation in real-world clinical settings.

Study Overview

Status

Enrolling by invitation

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

5000

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Ohio
      • Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
        • Cleveland Clinic

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients (recipients) undergoing liver transplantation with a deceased donor liver graft that was perfused using the VitaSmart HOPE System.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Liver graft accepted for transplant and perfused using the VitaSmart HOPE System

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Liver from a living donor
  2. Split liver transplant

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Patients undergoing liver transplantation with a donor graft that was perfused using VitaSmart
Recipients who received a deceased donor liver graft that was perfused using VitaSmart hypothermic oxygenated perfusion therapy.
Device: hypothermic oxygenated perfusion therapy of a donor liver under standard of care conditions
Observational, real-world use of the VitaSmart HOPE System with a donor liver graft under standard of care conditions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of Recipients alive with functioning graft at 1-year post-transplant
Time Frame: 1-year post-transplant
Number of Recipients alive with functioning graft at 1-year post-transplant (absence of graft failure or death for liver related reasons)
1-year post-transplant

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Bridge to Life Ltd.

Investigators

  • Study Chair: David Foley, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Study Chair: Andrea Schlegel, MD, MBA, The Cleveland Clinic

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

September 1, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2033

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 5, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 5, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

May 11, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 22, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 19, 2026

Last Verified

May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HOPE-2026-01

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

Yes

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