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Clinical trialNCT01932294CompletedObservational

Medical Arm of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support

SponsorNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Enrollment171Heart FailureSystolic Heart Failure
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Medamacs is a prospective, observational study of ambulatory patients with advanced heart failure. The study enrolls patients who have not yet received a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) but who receive their care at a hospital with a Joint Commission certified mechanical circulatory support program. Medamacs is funded through the Interagency for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) NHLBI Contract.
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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

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Sites

11 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Birmingham, Alabama, United States

  • Cedars Sinai Medical Center

    Beverly Hills, California, United States

  • University of Colorado

    Aurora, Colorado, United States

  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

    Iowa City, Iowa, United States

  • Brigham and Women'S Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

  • Duke University

    Durham, North Carolina, United States

  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  • University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, Texas, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Apr 2013
Primary completion
20 Jan 2017
Completion
20 Jan 2017
Last update posted
6 Dec 2018
Registered enrollment
171
Registry id
NCT01932294
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.