Cardiac Progenitor Cell Infusion to Treat Univentricular Heart Disease (PERSEUS)

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of intracoronary infusion of cardiac progenitor cells in patients with univentricular heart disease. Patients with preoperative high-risk group or whose cardiac function did not recover postoperatively eventually have no choice other than heart transplantation.

Timeline

Start

2013-04

Primary completion

2016-03

Completion

2016-09

Publications

• Background Oh H, Bradfute SB, Gallardo TD, Nakamura T, Gaussin V, Mishina Y, Pocius J, Michael LH, Behringer RR, Garry DJ, Entman ML, Schneider MD. Cardiac progenitor cells from adult myocardium: homing, differentiation, and fusion after infarction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Oct 14;100(21):12313-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2132126100. Epub 2003 Oct 6.
• Background Tateishi K, Ashihara E, Honsho S, Takehara N, Nomura T, Takahashi T, Ueyama T, Yamagishi M, Yaku H, Matsubara H, Oh H. Human cardiac stem cells exhibit mesenchymal features and are maintained through Akt/GSK-3beta signaling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Jan 19;352(3):635-41. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.11.096. Epub 2006 Nov 27.
• Background Tateishi K, Ashihara E, Takehara N, Nomura T, Honsho S, Nakagami T, Morikawa S, Takahashi T, Ueyama T, Matsubara H, Oh H. Clonally amplified cardiac stem cells are regulated by Sca-1 signaling for efficient cardiovascular regeneration. J Cell Sci. 2007 May 15;120(Pt 10):1791-800. doi: 10.1242/jcs.006122.
• Background Tateishi K, Takehara N, Matsubara H, Oh H. Stemming heart failure with cardiac- or reprogrammed-stem cells. J Cell Mol Med. 2008 Dec;12(6A):2217-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00487.x. Epub 2008 Aug 27.
• Background Takehara N, Tsutsumi Y, Tateishi K, Ogata T, Tanaka H, Ueyama T, Takahashi T, Takamatsu T, Fukushima M, Komeda M, Yamagishi M, Yaku H, Tabata Y, Matsubara H, Oh H. Controlled delivery of basic fibroblast growth factor promotes human cardiosphere-derived cell engraftment to enhance cardiac repair for chronic myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Dec 2;52(23):1858-1865. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.06.052.
• Results Ishigami S, Ohtsuki S, Eitoku T, Ousaka D, Kondo M, Kurita Y, Hirai K, Fukushima Y, Baba K, Goto T, Horio N, Kobayashi J, Kuroko Y, Kotani Y, Arai S, Iwasaki T, Sato S, Kasahara S, Sano S, Oh H. Intracoronary Cardiac Progenitor Cells in Single Ventricle Physiology: The PERSEUS (Cardiac Progenitor Cell Infusion to Treat Univentricular Heart Disease) Randomized Phase 2 Trial. Circ Res. 2017 Mar 31;120(7):1162-1173. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.310253. Epub 2017 Jan 4.
• Hirai K, Sawada R, Hayashi T, Araki T, Nakagawa N, Kondo M, Yasuda K, Hirata T, Sato T, Nakatsuka Y, Yoshida M, Kasahara S, Baba K, Oh H; TICAP/PERSEUS Study Group. Eight-Year Outcomes of Cardiosphere-Derived Cells in Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Nov 19;13(22):e038137. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.038137. Epub 2024 Nov 11.
• Sano T, Ousaka D, Goto T, Ishigami S, Hirai K, Kasahara S, Ohtsuki S, Sano S, Oh H. Impact of Cardiac Progenitor Cells on Heart Failure and Survival in Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease. Circ Res. 2018 Mar 30;122(7):994-1005. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.312311. Epub 2018 Jan 24.

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