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A PROSPECTIVE EUROPEAN VALIDATION COHORT FOR STEREOTACTIC THERAPY OF RE-ENTRANT TACHYCARDIA (acronimo STOPSTORM)

Tipologia
Progetti europei
Programma di ricerca
H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020
Ente finanziatore
Comunità Europea
Budget
100.370
Periodo
01/05/2021 - 30/04/2027
Responsabile
Gaetano Maria De Ferrari

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Descrizione del progetto

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an unpredictable and potentially deadly condition and should be promptly treated with catheter ablation and medication, before irreversible and potentially fatal organ damage follows. Unfortunately, this combination of treatments does not prevent VT reoccurrence in 30-50% of VT patients and while they can undergo multiple invasive ablations, technical difficulties or refusal of the patient can lead to a lack of effective treatment options.
A promising novel, non-invasive treatment option for VT is stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR). Besides
being non-invasive, STAR can also be used to reach locations that are inaccessible for catheter ablation, which may potentially improve effectiveness of overall VT treatment.
Small scale first in men/early phase trials have been performed for STAR, providing proof-of-concept for clinical
safety and efficacy. However, patients with recurrent VT are not a homogenous group and each center deals with
different inclusion criteria, imaging and/or target definition. Many questions remain and the available studies lack the power to clinically validate the approach and prepare for late stage phase III trials.
The STOPSTORM consortium sets out to consolidate all current and future European efforts to clinically validate
STAR treatment by merging all data in a validation cohort study, standardising pre-treatment and follow-up, in order to collect the data sets and statistical power needed to unanimously establish clinical safety, efficacy and benefit for STAR.
The STOPSTORM consortium also sets out to refine protocols and guidelines, determine volumes of interest, define and model the optimal target region and target dose, also in relation to surrounding healthy tissues (i.e. organs atrisk) and determine which patient population and underlying cardiopathies respond best to STAR. By doing so the STOPSTORM consortium paves the way to consensus and future late stage clinical trials for STAR.

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