Ammonia N-13 Myocardial Blood Flow Absolute Quantification by PET in Patients With Known or Suspected CAD (Ammonia MAP)

Sponsor
Ionetix Corporation (Industry)
Overall Status
Recruiting
CT.gov ID
NCT04343209
Collaborator
(none)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study is being conducted to provide access to and collect test data for an established nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging test called Positron Emission Tomography (PET), using a specific radioactive drug called Ammonia N-13 (Ammonia), referred to simply as an Ammonia PET scan, which is used to visualize the blood flow through the blood vessels and into the heart muscle in order to identify areas of restricted blood flow within the heart. The scanner used in this study may be a stand-alone PET scanner or a PET/CT scanner, which combines the PET scanner and a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner into a single device. Unless otherwise stated in this consent form, the term PET will be used to refer to both stand-alone PET and PET/CT scanners. While physicians have used the Ammonia PET test for many years to visualize (image) the blood flow into the heart muscle (perfusion), it is now possible to also measure the flow of blood into the heart muscle. Research studies have demonstrated clinical value in reviewing the measured blood flow values in addition to reviewing the perfusion images of blood flow into the heart muscle. Therefore, this study will establish a database of a large number of Ammonia PET measured blood flow values to serve as a future reference.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Diagnostic Test: Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Study
  • Drug: AMMONIA N-13 37.5 mCi in 1 mL INTRAVENOUS INJECTION [Ammonia N 13]

Detailed Description

This is a prospective, multicenter database that will be populated by sites utilizing N-13 Ammonia and sponsored by Ionetix. Each site with access to N-13 produced under an investigational new drug (IND) application will be eligible to participate. Once the site is activated, the site will enroll patients into the database that are scheduled for clinically indicated PET-MPI with N-13 (as determined by their treating physicians). PET-MPI perfusion, MBF, percent ischemia, pharmacologic stress agent, and gated left ventricular ejection fraction/function values will be collected when available, in an anonymous fashion and uploaded into the database. All patient health identifiers (PHI) will be removed prior to upload. No procedures additional to those clinically indicated will be performed for the purposes of this study.

Study Design

Study Type:
Observational
Anticipated Enrollment :
2500 participants
Observational Model:
Case-Only
Time Perspective:
Prospective
Official Title:
Ammonia N-13 Myocardial Blood Flow Absolute Quantification by Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease (Ammonia MAP)
Actual Study Start Date :
Sep 14, 2020
Anticipated Primary Completion Date :
Aug 1, 2023
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Aug 1, 2023

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Individuals with confirmed or suspected cardiovascular disease

Individuals in this group will undergo myocardial perfusion imaging, utilizing Ammonia N-13 PET imaging agent. Each individual will receive two intravenous injections of Ammonia N-13 in accordance with site imaging protocol.

Diagnostic Test: Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Study
Evaluation of myocardial perfusion via PET imaging agent

Drug: AMMONIA N-13 37.5 mCi in 1 mL INTRAVENOUS INJECTION [Ammonia N 13]
Cardiac PET imaging agent

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Establish the N-13 measured MBF (ml/g/min) value range [an estimated average of 2 hours]

    Non-invasive measurements of myocardial blood flow (MBF) in milliliter/minute/gram using PET/CT or PET scanner will be compared to invasive cardiac angiography values (current gold standard). MBF values are obtained using image-derived time activity curves from the left ventricular blood and myocardial tissue regions. These values represent radiotracer exchange between the blood and the tissue over time. The rate of radiotracer uptake into the myocardial tissue provides an estimate of MBF. Processing software will then use the time-activity curves to calculate MBF at rest and at stress.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years and Older
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Inclusion Criteria:

Adults ≥18 able to give informed consent.

Clinical indication for PET-MPI as determined by the subject's treating physician

Exclusion Criteria:

Any clinical contraindication for pharmacologic stress testing per ASNC/SNMMI/ACC myocardial perfusion imaging guidelines when stress perfusion imaging is required clinically.

Inability or unwilling to give informed consent

Pregnant subjects

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 Doral Imaging Institute, LLC dba CIRA Miami Florida United States 33165
2 Adler Institute for Advanced Imaging Jenkintown Pennsylvania United States 19046
3 UPMC Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States 15213
4 Molecular Imaging Technologies El Paso Texas United States 79912

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Ionetix Corporation

Investigators

  • Study Director: Joseph Oliverio, Ionetix Corporation

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Ionetix Corporation
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT04343209
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • Pro00042364
First Posted:
Apr 13, 2020
Last Update Posted:
May 13, 2022
Last Verified:
May 1, 2022

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 13, 2022