Medtronic has announced the first patient enrolment in the ADVANCE trial, a head-to-head randomised controlled trial of two leading aortic stent graft systems, the Medtronic Endurant II/IIs stent graft system and Gore Excluder AAA device family systems. The ADVANCE trial is a global, post-market, prospective, interventional, multicentre, randomised study that will enrol a minimum of 550 patients at up to 50 centres globally. Patients will be randomised to receive endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) with either the Endurant family or Excluder family grafts and will be followed at one month, one year, and annually through five years.
The first patient in the ADVANCE trial was enrolled by the team led by Ray Workman at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center (Winston-Salem, USA).
“Through the ADVANCE trial, we are working to deepen our evidence of sac regression as a key indicator of long-term EVAR patient outcomes,” said Hence Verhagen, professor of Vascular Surgery at Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and co-principal investigator of the trial. “Our hope is that the findings will allow physicians to make evidence-based clinical decisions to improve long-term patient outcomes.”
The ADVANCE trial aims to further the understanding of sac regression by robust evaluation of CT imaging utilising an independent core lab through five years. The trial will provide a comparison of aneurysm sac regression outcomes between the Medtronic Endurant II/IIs stent grafts and the GORE Excluder AAA device family stent grafts with additional evidence to analyse risk factors related to aneurysms that fail to regress. The trial will also compare other key clinical outcomes between the two stent grafts, including endoleaks, migration, secondary interventions, mortality, and renal complications.
“We are pleased to announce the first patient enrolled in the ADVANCE trial,” said Marc Schermerhorn, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, USA) and co-principal investigator of the trial. “This milestone underscores the commitment to rigorous study of the long-term data around the durability of the Endurant system for patients in need of EVAR. The results of the trial aim to demonstrate contemporary outcomes and our overarching goal to deliver superior aortic patient care through robust and rigorous clinical data.”
The ADVANCE trial draws on clinical data showing that one-year sac regression is an early indicator of improved long-term survival. The outcomes were consistent with the eight-year results from the ENGAGE OUS Registry, published in January 2022, which demonstrated the long-term clinical safety and effectiveness of the Endurant Stent Graft System. The ENGAGE OUS Registry followed subjects through 10 years.
The Endurant II/IIs bifurcated stent graft is indicated for the endovascular treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic or aorto-iliac aneurysms. Endovascular stent grafting may be an option for patients who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm as determined by a vascular specialist.
