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Study to Image Inflammatory Activity of a Fluorescence Imaging Agent in Excised Human Artery Plaques

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Mass General Brigham

Status and phase

Begins enrollment this month
Early Phase 1

Conditions

Peripheral Arterial Disease
Carotid Artery Diseases

Treatments

Other: Placebo
Drug: Pegulicianine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT06957821
2024P002945
5R01HL165453-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Active inflammation plays a key role in causing Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). Since inflammation is so important in how these diseases start, are diagnosed, and treated, being able to see it clearly in each patient could lead to more personalized and effective care - and may help prevent heart attacks. Right now, there's no imaging technology available to clearly see inflammation inside the coronary arteries.

The investigators hope to learn how an imaging drug; called LUMISIGHT (Pegulicianine) can help detect inflammation in blood vessels compared with saline. If the investigators find out that LUMISIGHT is active in humans, the investigators might be able to use it for detecting plaque risk in the future.

Full description

Objective of this research is to find out if a new imaging drug called LUMISIGHT can show inflammation inside blood vessels for participants with severe coronary and peripheral arterial disease. This will allow us to obtain information about diseases that cause inflammation in the heart and blood vessels.

On the day of the procedure, at least 2 hours before the surgery, consented study participants will be injected with either the LUMISIGHT or saline. Following the injection, study participants will be monitored and observed for 30 minutes for any allergic reactions. Study participants will then undergo the standard of care surgery for their clinical care. During the procedure, surgeon will take out blocked pieces of subjects' blood vessel for clinical care. The investigators will get these discarded pieces and image it with a special imaging system developed by the Tearney Lab. This system uses a thin tube with a light-based camera (called Optical Coherence Tomography-Near Infra Red Fluorescence or OCT-NIRF) to capture detailed images.

Enrollment

25 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Must have an established diagnosis of severe carotid or peripheral arterial disease (ischemic or aneurysmal) requiring surgery and be sufficiently healthy to undergo surgery
  • Must be age of 18 years or older
  • Must be able to give informed consent
  • Women with childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test
  • Estimated glomerular filtration rate ≥ 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 (mild renal impairment

Exclusion criteria

  • History of allergic reaction to oral or intravenous contrast agents
  • History of allergic reaction to polyethylene glycol (PEG)
  • History of allergic or anaphylactic reactions
  • Participants who have taken an investigational drug within 14 days of enrollment.
  • Participants with hemodynamic instability
  • Any history of renal failure (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) <60ml/min/1.73 m2)
  • Pregnant or lactating females
  • Participants with uncontrolled hypertension defined as persistent systolic blood pressure > 180 mm Hg, or diastolic blood pressure > 110 mm Hg; those subjects with known HTN should be under these values while under pharmaceutical therapy
  • Severe concurrent illnesses including, but not limited to ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, COPD or asthma requiring hospitalization within the past 12 months, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

25 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

PEGULICIANINE (LUMISIGHT)
Experimental group
Description:
Twenty (20) participants will receive 1.0 mg/kg of LUMISIGHT
Treatment:
Drug: Pegulicianine
Normal Saline
Placebo Comparator group
Description:
Five(5) participants will receive saline injections and be considered controls
Treatment:
Other: Placebo

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Anita Chung

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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