Individualized Early Risk Assessment for Heart Diseases (IndivuHeart)
2019年4月26日 更新者：Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Heart failure (HF) is the common end-stage of different medical conditions.
It is the only growing cardiovascular disease and its prognosis remains worse than that of many malignancies.
The lack of evidence-based treatment for patients with diastolic HF (HFpEF) exemplifies that the current "one for all" therapy has to be advanced by an individualized approach.
Inherited cardiomyopathies can serve as paradigmatic examples of different HF pathogenesis.
Both gain- and loss-of-function mutations of the same gene cause disease, calling for disease-specific agonism or antagonism of this gene´s function.
However, mutations alone do not predict the severity of cardiomyopathies nor therapy, because their impact on cardiac myocyte function is modified by numerous factors, including the genetic context.
Today, patient-specific cardiac myocytes can be evaluated by the induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology.
Yet, unfolding the true potential of this technology requires robust, quantitative, high content assays.
The researchers' recently developed method to generate 3D-engineered heart tissue (EHT) from hiPSC provides an automated, high content analysis of heart muscle function and the response to stressors in the dish.
The aim of this project is to make the technology a clinically applicable test.
Major steps are (i) in depths clinical phenotyping and genotyping of patients with cardiomyopathies or HFpEF, (ii) follow-up of the clinical course, (iii) generation of hiPSC lines (40 patients, 40 healthy controls), and (iv) quantitative assessment of hiPSC-EHT function under basal conditions and in response to pro-arrhythmic or cardio-active drugs and chronic afterload enhancement.
The product of this study is an SOP-based assay with standard values for hiPSC-EHT function/stress responses from healthy volunteers and patients with different heart diseases.
The project could change clinical practice and be a step towards individualized risk prediction and therapy of HF.
研究概览
详细说明
At present, heart function in patients can only be analysed by imaging methods or hemodynamic measurements. This has dramatically changed by the discovery that hiPSC can be generated from somatic cells (e.g. fibroblasts) by transduction of pluripotency genes. The investigators and others have shown that pluripotent stem cells can be efficiently differentiated into beating cardiac myocytes. This allows for the first time to study the function of cardiac myocytes from an individual patient. However, at present, only alterations were reproduced in hiPSC cells that were known previously and important limitations have to be resolved:
- Immaturity of hiPSC-derived cardiac myocytes
- Variability of hiPSC-generation, cardiac myocyte differentiation and experimental analyses
- No readout of contractile force, the parameter mostly affected in heart failure
- No modeling of hemodynamic stress in vitro
- No statistically valid correlation of hiPSC-cardiac myocyte function with clinical/genetic data
- Uncertainty as to standard values and adequate controls
- Unclear predictive value
The research challenge for the coming years is to resolve these shortcomings. IndivuHeart formulates a number of hypotheses and goals that are based on the researchers' longstanding expertise in tissue engineering and recent, still unpublished data on the pathophysiology of HCM and its modeling in EHT. The study will
- reveal standard values for hiPSC-EHT function in a statistically valid manner, both under basal and stress conditions,
- define a "cardiomyopathy phenotype" in vitro,
- allow new mechanistic insight into the pathogenesis of human HCM and DCM,
- uncover HCM-like abnormalities in HFpEF,
- allow individualized drug testing (acute and chronic).
研究类型
观察性的
注册 (预期的)
80
联系人和位置
本节提供了进行研究的人员的详细联系信息，以及有关进行该研究的地点的信息。
学习地点
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Hamburg、德国、20246
- Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology
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参与标准
研究人员寻找符合特定描述的人，称为资格标准。这些标准的一些例子是一个人的一般健康状况或先前的治疗。
资格标准
适合学习的年龄
18年 至 60年 (成人)
接受健康志愿者
是的
有资格学习的性别
全部
取样方法
非概率样本
研究人群
Recruitment of patients will be done by the Cardiomyopathy Outpatient Clinic which is led by Dr. M. Patten and Dr. J. Münch at the Department of Cardiology, University Heart Centre, UKE (Prof.
Blankenberg).
描述
Inclusion Criteria:
- HCM: ProBNP ≥ 300 ng/l; IVSd ≥ 20 mm; E/E´ ≥ 8, LVOT > 30 mmHg
- DCM: presence of signs and/or symptoms of HF (NYHA II-IV); ProBNP ≥ 300 ng/l; LV EF ≤ 40% for > 3 month
Exclusion Criteria:
- Uncontrolled hypertension,
- coronary artery disease,
- persistent atrial fibrillation,
- enlisted for myectomy
学习计划
本节提供研究计划的详细信息，包括研究的设计方式和研究的衡量标准。
研究是如何设计的？
设计细节
队列和干预
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干预/治疗 |
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Control group
40 healthy volunteers will serve as control group.
Skin biopsy, genotyping and disease phenotyping
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Major steps of the project are (i) in depths clinical phenotyping and follow-up of the clinical course of probands (ii) genotyping of candidate genes involved in heart disease development and (iii) in vitro functional tests of engineered heart tissue (EHT), miniature beating heart muscles.
These EHTs are generated from hiPSC (human induced pluripotent stem cells) lines derived from skin biopsies of each participant.
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DCM patients
20 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
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Major steps of the project are (i) in depths clinical phenotyping and follow-up of the clinical course of probands (ii) genotyping of candidate genes involved in heart disease development and (iii) in vitro functional tests of engineered heart tissue (EHT), miniature beating heart muscles.
These EHTs are generated from hiPSC (human induced pluripotent stem cells) lines derived from skin biopsies of each participant.
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HCM patients
20 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Major steps of the project are (i) in depths clinical phenotyping and follow-up of the clinical course of probands (ii) genotyping of candidate genes involved in heart disease development and (iii) in vitro functional tests of engineered heart tissue (EHT), miniature beating heart muscles.
These EHTs are generated from hiPSC (human induced pluripotent stem cells) lines derived from skin biopsies of each participant.
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研究衡量的是什么？
主要结果指标
结果测量 |
措施说明 |
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generation of hiPSC-EHT and in vitro phenotyping
大体时间：up to 60 month
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After generation of proband-specific 3D-engineered heart tissue (EHT) from hiPSC we will make a quantitative assessment of hiPSC-EHT function under basal conditions and in response to pro-arrhythmic or cardio-active drugs and chronic afterload enhancement.
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up to 60 month
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次要结果测量
结果测量 |
措施说明 |
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clinical phenotyping and disease progression
大体时间：up to 60 month
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All 40 patients will be subjected to (i) high-end echocardiography including tissue Doppler and speckle tracking technology, (ii) MRI, (iii) spiroergometry and (iv) 24 h-holter ECG monitoring.
Key parameters are guideline-recommended indices of systolic (e.g.
fractional shortening, ejection fraction) and diastolic heart function (e.g.
left atrial size, E/A, E'/A' and E/E´ratios), outflow tract gradient and cardiac remodeling (gadolinium late enhancement).
The latter will be only done in HCM/DCM for ethical reasons.
Technical analyses will be made at study entry and after 4 years, clinical examinations once a year (Cardiomyopathy Outpatient Clinic).
Patients and their treating physicians will be prompted to report any clinical event during the course of the study.
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up to 60 month
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genotyping
大体时间：up to 60 month
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The genetic part of this project does not focus on the detection of new HCM/DCM disease genes, but on comprehensively determining the molecular basis of cardiomyopathy in the included patients. DNA samples will first be subjected to sequencing of a panel of about 120 cardiomyopathy-related candidate genes, which detects approximately 75% of all disease-causing mutations. The rest will be analysed by whole genome sequencing. The resulting sequence data will be processed using CASAVA, followed by subsequent analyses using the GATK software package provided through the Broad Institute (Boston, USA) and the commercial software CLC-BIO. |
up to 60 month
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合作者和调查者
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调查人员
- 首席研究员：Thomas Eschenhagen, Prof.Dr.med.、Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
出版物和有用的链接
负责输入研究信息的人员自愿提供这些出版物。这些可能与研究有关。
一般刊物
- Takahashi K, Tanabe K, Ohnuki M, Narita M, Ichisaka T, Tomoda K, Yamanaka S. Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors. Cell. 2007 Nov 30;131(5):861-72. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.11.019.
- Hansen A, Eder A, Bonstrup M, Flato M, Mewe M, Schaaf S, Aksehirlioglu B, Schwoerer AP, Uebeler J, Eschenhagen T. Development of a drug screening platform based on engineered heart tissue. Circ Res. 2010 Jul 9;107(1):35-44. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.211458. Epub 2010 May 6. Erratum In: Circ Res. 2011 Nov 11;109(11):e54. Schworer, Alexander [corrected to Schwoerer, Alexander P].
- Eschenhagen T, Fink C, Remmers U, Scholz H, Wattchow J, Weil J, Zimmermann W, Dohmen HH, Schafer H, Bishopric N, Wakatsuki T, Elson EL. Three-dimensional reconstitution of embryonic cardiomyocytes in a collagen matrix: a new heart muscle model system. FASEB J. 1997 Jul;11(8):683-94. doi: 10.1096/fasebj.11.8.9240969.
- Madsen A, Hoppner G, Krause J, Hirt MN, Laufer SD, Schweizer M, Tan WLW, Mosqueira D, Anene-Nzelu CG, Lim I, Foo RSY, Hansen A, Eschenhagen T, Stenzig J. An Important Role for DNMT3A-Mediated DNA Methylation in Cardiomyocyte Metabolism and Contractility. Circulation. 2020 Oct 20;142(16):1562-1578. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044444. Epub 2020 Sep 4. Erratum In: Circulation. 2021 Apr 13;143(15):e830.
研究记录日期
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研究主要日期
学习开始
2014年6月1日
初级完成 (预期的)
2019年6月1日
研究完成 (预期的)
2019年6月1日
研究注册日期
首次提交
2015年3月16日
首先提交符合 QC 标准的
2015年4月10日
首次发布 (估计)
2015年4月15日
研究记录更新
最后更新发布 (实际的)
2019年4月29日
上次提交的符合 QC 标准的更新
2019年4月26日
最后验证
2019年4月1日
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其他研究编号
- 0174/134/2-1
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