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With clinical trials, the big story is always in the numbers. So it was with a heart failure trial called COAPT<\/a>. The trial considered 614 patients treated at dozens of medical centers around the country. UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) at the Anschutz Medical Campus was among the top 10 sites.<\/p>\n

All the patients had advanced heart failure. A leaky mitral valve between the heart\u2019s two left chambers was part of the problem. Instead of the left atrium pushing blood down to the left ventricle and the left ventricle pushing blood out to the body, the leaky valve let the ventricle pump some of the blood back up into the left atrium (technically, it\u2019s called mitral regurgitation).<\/p>\n

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Ken Nielsen’\u0092s participation in a clinical trial testing the MitraClip on certain heart failure patients helped him \u0096 and will help others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The patients got the best medical treatment available. Half then also received a medical device called a MitraClip. In late September, the study\u2019s leaders reported the results.<\/p>\n

Two years into treatment, those who got the MitraClip had 43 percent fewer hospitalizations, 28 percent fewer heart attacks, 61 percent fewer heart transplants, and 14 percent fewer strokes, among other metrics. Nearly half of those just on medical management (46.1 percent) had died within two years; among those with the MitraClip, that figure improved to fewer than one in three (29.1 percent).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trial blew all these endpoints out of the water,\u201d said Dr. Andreas Brieke<\/a>, the UCHealth Heart Failure Clinic<\/a> specialist who led the UCHealth branch of the COAPT trial.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Andreas Brieke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brieke compared the MitraClip\u2019s effectiveness in heart failure patients with mitral valve problems to that of the introduction, years ago, of beta blockers<\/a> and biventricular pacemakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix patients needed to be treated to prevent one death. Even statins are not that good,\u201d Brieke said. \u201cThat\u2019s the impact of this trial on this population.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study and its numbers got attention. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> published the report. The New York Times<\/em> wrote it up<\/a>. But numbers can\u2019t tell the whole COAPT story. For that, one must sit down with someone such as Ken Nielsen.<\/p>\n

On trial<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nielsen, 58, of Colorado Springs, was told two decades ago that he was within a year of needing a heart transplant. It turned out to be a hereditary problem: the electrical pulses driving his heartbeat weren\u2019t synchronized, which had led to heart failure. His heart was supplying about one-third of the blood it was supposed to (its ejection fraction <\/a>was about 15 percent; 50 percent to 70 percent is considered normal). His kids, Melissa and Erik, were elementary school and preschool. It was, he said, \u201chard \u2013 physically, mentally. You know, just getting diagnosed with that was a baseball bat to the chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite a circulatory deficit that would leave many bedridden, Nielsen kept at his job as a supervisor at a mechanical subcontractor. Medications helped, as did a biventricular pacemaker. But his ejection fraction never rose above about 30 percent. He had been listed for a heart transplant, but he wasn\u2019t sick enough to qualify. In 2007, he had to stop working.<\/p>\n

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The MitraClip (courtesy Abbott).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nielsen went back to work in 2013. He had been on the job for about a year when, at the end of a week in April 2014 he hadn\u2019t been feeling well, dialed 9-1-1, opened the door for the paramedics and collapsed. He spent eight days in an intensive care unit at UCHealth Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. He was on a ventilator much of the time; his kidneys failed for some of it. It looked like the end, but he pulled through.<\/p>\n

Memorial Hospital cardiologists, recognizing that Nielsen\u2019s mitral valve was a big part of the problem \u2013 about 35 percent of the ventricle\u2019s output was leaking back up into the atrium \u2013 referred him to UCHealth Structural Heart and Valve Clinic<\/a>. Brieke, interventional cardiologist Dr. John Carroll<\/a> and cardiac surgeon Dr. Joseph Cleveland<\/a> had been involved in MitraClip clinical trials for more than a decade. The UCH team had contributed to the study that led to the device\u2019s U.S. Food and Drug Administration initial approval for patients with faulty mitral valves and who were too sick for open-heart mitral-valve replacement, in 2013. The Memorial Hospital cardiology team knew Brieke and colleagues were recruiting patients for COAPT, which was to extend approval to roughly 90 percent of patients whose mitral valve problems come about because of changes to the surrounding heart muscle.\u00a0 Nielsen might be a candidate, they thought. They were right.<\/p>\n

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Dr. John Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Carroll and interventional cardiology colleagues including Dr. Dominik Wiktor have performed about 200 MitraClip procedures in clinical trials and in FDA-approved procedures over the years, by far the most in the region. These procedures are, Carroll says, as difficult as any minimally invasive cardiac surgery he has done. (This from a man who has replaced aortic valves via catheters snaked up through an artery near the groin.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a team effort, he says, from assessing patients in a Tuesday-afternoon multidisciplinary Mitral Valve Clinic on through the procedure itself, which depends heavily on UCHealth experts in echocardiography and X-ray fluoroscopy as Carroll or Wiktor guide a catheter into the heart. Once there, a clip about the size of a dime opens wide and, at the interventional cardiologist\u2019s command, clamps down on the center of the mitral valve\u2019s opposing flaps (as depicted in this video<\/a>). Scar tissue forms around the clip, permanently stabilizing the valve, which lets blood through from the atrium around the clipped point in the center while largely preventing backflow. The procedure takes a couple of hours, Carroll says, and usually involves more than one clip. Patients often go home the next day.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Dominik Wiktor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nielsen got three MitraClips during his September 2015 procedure. His mitral regurgitation dropped from 35 percent to 5 percent or less, and his heart\u2019s ejection fraction is up to 38 percent, within shouting distance of normal. The result has been life-changing in many ways, he says.<\/p>\n

He has more energy. His skin is no longer gray. He can sleep lying down (before, he had to be propped up or his lungs would fill with fluid) and is off oxygen at night. Before, walking upstairs had been exhausting. After, he was able to hike the 1.4-mile, 1,200-vertical-foot trail to Hanging Lake within months of the procedure. He and wife, Tami, a close high school friend with whom he reconnected a month after the procedure, were married a year later. They recently spent a week in Telluride, walking and hiking at 9,500 feet altitude and above, which would have been unthinkable. He\u2019s got a new granddaughter to dote on. Nielsen intends to try skiing this winter for the first time since his heart failure was diagnosed, he says.<\/p>\n

He can do these things, he says, because he never gave up \u2013 and because of the care he got at UCHealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to make a difference in my wife\u2019s and my kids\u2019 lives,\u201d Nielsen said. \u201cI\u2019ve got long-term friends. They always joke that I\u2019m too stubborn to die\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Joseph Cleveland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vice-versa<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He benefitted from the COAPT trial. But the COAPT trial benefitted from him, too, Carroll says. Nielsen\u2019s and other patients\u2019 willingness to participate may help many others: mitral regurgitation affects<\/a> one in 10 adults over 75 and more than 2 million people in the United States.<\/p>\n

Carroll and his UCHealth colleagues continue to explore new avenues for these patients. Among the clinical trials include a system that enables mitral valve replacement without<\/a> open-heart surgery; implantation and testing of a device<\/a> similar to the MitraClip as well as one that takes a different tack<\/a> (mechanically reducing the annulus, or ring size, of the gap the mitral valve fills); and a study<\/a> to confirm the safety and performance of MitraClip devices already approved for use in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

Participating in these studies is a lot of work for the UCHealth team, he says, but it\u2019s worth it. First, such trials can provide novel treatments to UCHealth patients years before those treatments reach the mainstream. And second, gaudy numbers in journal articles can lead to options that change the lives of large numbers of people like Ken Nielsen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to participate in the developing and refining of these treatments to bring them to widespread clinical use,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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