Clinical trialNCT05537753RecruitingInterventional

Encore PFO Closure Device - The PerFOrm Trial

SponsorEncore Medical Inc.Enrollment500Cryptogenic StrokePatent Foramen Ovale

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Summary

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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.

Christopher D Nielsen, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Principal Investigator
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Sites

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

United States

Arkansas Cardiology
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Ernesto Ruiz-Rodriguez, MDThomas Evans Watts, MD
Recruiting
Southern Ca Permanente Medical Group - Kaiser San Diego and Scripps Memorial Hospital
La Jolla, California, United States
Jeffrey Cavendish, MD
Recruiting
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States
Bibhu Mohanty, MD
Recruiting
Mercy One Iowa Heart Center
West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Mark Tannenbaum, MD
Recruiting
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Eric Hockstad, MDGeorges Hajj, MD
Recruiting
Jackson Heart Clinic
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
William Crowder, MD
Recruiting
Chi Health
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Himanshu Agarwal, MD
Recruiting
Medical University of South Carolina Gazes Research Institute
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Christopher D Nielsen, MD
Recruiting

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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: 12 Jul 2023
Primary completion: 30 Apr 2026
Completion: 31 Oct 2030
Last update posted: 19 Sept 2024
Registered enrollment: 500
Registry id: NCT05537753

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 12 Jul 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.