Balloon-Expandable Versus Self-expanding Transcatheter Heart Valve for Treatment of Symptomatic Native Aortic Valve Stenosis (BEST)

NCT ID: NCT05454150

Last Updated: 2025-12-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1960 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-04-19

Study Completion Date

2035-12-29

Brief Summary

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Over the last years, several randomized studies comparing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) have established TAVI as a treatment option in symptomatic patients with aortic stenosis (AS) (1,2,3). Most transcatheter heart valves (THV) available are designed on either a balloon-expandable (BE) or a self-expanding (SE) concept.

Despite major differences, both designs are recommended to be used indifferently in most of the clinical situations and a significant number of centers only implant one of this two THV design. It remains unclear however, whether these 2 very different THV concepts are achieving similar or different clinical outcomes and could be considered a single "Class" of device. While there is an urgent clinical need to clarify this issue in an exponentially growing therapeutic field, to date no large randomized study powered to compare the 2 THV designs on individual endpoints has been conducted or initiated. Recently, two large-scale French registry-based propensity matched analyses, including more than 30,000 patients, have reported a higher 90 days and 1-year mortality with the use of SE as compared to BE-valve (4,5). However, as the propensity-score matching-approach cannot rule out residual confounders, and as some of the most recent THV iterations were not part of the investigation, there is an urgent need to conduct a randomized trial sufficiently powered to compare head-to-head the latest generation of SE and BE-valve on all-cause mortality. In addition, two small randomized studies have recently showed the inferiority of a new SE-valve compared to BE-valve and SE-THV (SCOPE1 trial, J Lanz. Lancet. 2019 Nov 2;394(10209):1619-1628. and SCOPE 2 trial, Circulation in press), thus further questioning wether THV should be considered as a single \"Class\" regardless the THV design.

The objective of the present randomized clinical investigation will be to evaluate the impact of THV design (SE vs BE) on the risk of all-cause mortality at 90 days and 1 year.

The present clinical investigation will the first randomized clinical investigation to compare head to head the benefit of BE-valve over SE-valve on total mortality and /or disabling stroke at 90 days and 1-year using a superiority design. Previous head-to-head studies included only a small number of patients, non-inferiority designs and combined endpoints. This clinical investigation will be the first to generate sufficient evidences to change clinical practice and international guidelines to clarify whether one THV design is superior (or not) to the other one (BE vs SE-valve). The result of the clinical investigation is key for clinicians indicating the treatment and for the patients receiving the treatment

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Aortic Valve Stenosis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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TAVI with balloon-expandable valve (Sapien 3/Ultra, Edwards Lifesciences©)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

balloon-expandable valve

Intervention Type DEVICE

Sapien 3/Ultra, Edwards Lifesciences©

TAVI with self-expanding valve (Evolut R/Pro, Medtronic©)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

self-expanding valve

Intervention Type DEVICE

Evolut R/Pro, Medtronic©

Interventions

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balloon-expandable valve

Sapien 3/Ultra, Edwards Lifesciences©

Intervention Type DEVICE

self-expanding valve

Evolut R/Pro, Medtronic©

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Symptomatic severe aortic stenosis defined according to the current echocardiography criteria of the European Society of Cardiology guidelines2.
* Heart team of the investigating center agrees that the patient is eligible to TAVI with BE-valve SAPIEN 3 (Edwards Lifesciences©) (or further iterations of the same family) OR TAVI with the SE-valve Evolut-R/pro (Medtronic©) (or futher iterations of the same family).
* Heart team of the investigating center agrees that TAVI is feasible via percutaneous transfemoral approach.
* Written informed consent to the BEST study
* Written informed consent to the FRANCE-TAVI registy
* All valve anatomy are authorized (bicuspid or tricuspid aortic valve)

Exclusion Criteria

* Age \< 18 years old
* Patient with legal protection
* Non-affiliation to a social security scheme
* Pregnancy
* Subject participating in another research protocol on TAVI procedure
* Patients presenting with an anatomy that is regarded unsuitable for the implantation of one of the two valve types
* TAVI through nontransfemoral approach or surgical cutdown
* Valve-in-valve procedure (TAVI in TAVI or TAVI in surgical aortic bioprosthesis)
* Implantation of Accurate Neo or Accurate Neo2 valve (Boston scientific)
* Severe aortic regurgitation (\>3+)
* Refusal to participate to FRANCE-TAVI registry
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ministry of Health, France

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, University Laval

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Lille

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Eric Van Belle, MD,PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Lille

Locations

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CH Annecy Genevois

Annecy, , France

Site Status

CHU de Besançon

Besançon, , France

Site Status

CHU de Caen

Caen, , France

Site Status

Hôpital Privé Saint-Martin

Caen, , France

Site Status

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, , France

Site Status

AP-HP Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor

Créteil, , France

Site Status

CHU de Grenoble

Grenoble, , France

Site Status

Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud

Massy, , France

Site Status

CHU de Montpellier

Montpellier, , France

Site Status

CHU de Nîmes

Nîmes, , France

Site Status

AP-HP Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière

Paris, , France

Site Status

Institut Mutualiste Montsouris

Paris, , France

Site Status

CHU de Bordeaux Hôpital Pellegrin

Pessac, , France

Site Status

CHU Reims - Hôpitam Robert Debré

Reims, , France

Site Status

CHU de Saint-Etienne

Saint-Etienne, , France

Site Status

CHU de Nantes - Hôpital Laennec

Saint-Herblain, , France

Site Status

Centre Médico Chirurgical Arnault Tzanck

Saint-Laurent-du-Var, , France

Site Status

CHU de Strasbourg

Strasbourg, , France

Site Status

CHU de Toulouse

Toulouse, , France

Site Status

CHU de Tours

Tours, , France

Site Status

Médipôle Lyon Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

Other Identifiers

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2021_0513

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

2021-A02554-37

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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