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BioCardia Announces Positive DSMB Review and Recommendation to Continue Phase III Pivotal CardiAMP Cell Therapy Heart Failure Study as Designed
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioCardia®, Inc. [Nasdaq: BCDA], a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment
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[{"type":"text","content":"SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioCardia®, Inc. [Nasdaq: BCDA], a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, today announces that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has completed its prespecified data review for the ongoing Phase III pivotal CardiAMP™ Cell Therapy Heart Failure Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02438306), just one week after receiving Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA. The DSMB based its review on all available data for the 108 patients enrolled with an additional six crossover patient procedures in the trial to date. The DSMB performed a risk-benefit assessment, indicated no significant safety concerns, and recommended that the study continue as designed. “It is promising that the most recent risk/benefit analysis of this substantial data pool conducted by the DSMB indicates that the CardiAMP Cell Therapy Heart Failure Trial continues to have the potential to meet its primary endpoint. In fact, we believe that the trial now has the largest enrollment of any trial of intramyocardial bone marrow mononuclear cells performed in ischemic heart failure to date,” said BioCardia CEO Peter Altman, Ph.D. “We are also encouraged regarding the recent feedback we have received from FDA and CMS as well as our clinical sites related to our efforts to expedite enrollment in the near future and complete the trial.” The ongoing multi-center, double-blinded, randomized (3:2), controlled pivotal CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial is expected to enroll 260 patients at up to 40 centers nationwide. The trial’s primary endpoint is an outcomes composite score based on a three-tiered Finkelstein-Schoenfeld (FS) hierarchical analysis, an established outcomes design that has been used in other leading heart failure programs. The FS procedure is a ranked analysis that compares occurrence of cardiovascular and other health-related events, along with functional capacity measures, through one year in patients receiving the study treatment to patients in the control arm who don’t receive the study treatment. Data submitted to the DSMB provided the group with visibility into the risks and benefits of the trial at its primary endpoint. The DSMB consists of two world renowned cardiologists with experience in heart failure and int...