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NCT04769167: CHARMED

Congenital Heart Anomaly Risk in Maternal Enteroviral Infection and Diabetes

Completed NA Last updated 24 December 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Stool and Blood Specimen Collection in Congenital Heart Disease in 114 participants. Completed in 5 December 2023.

Timeline
1 February 2021
Primary endpoint
5 December 2023
5 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsorWashington University School of Medicine
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designfactorial
Maskingsingle
Primary purposescreening
Enrollment114
Start date1 February 2021
Primary completion5 December 2023
Estimated completion5 December 2023
Sites2 locations across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Washington University School of Medicine

Who can join

Adults 18 to 45, female only, with Congenital Heart Disease or Viremia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Beyond EV-B, there are clinical observations to implicate other viruses in birth defects, including CHD. Since the Rubella epidemic of 1960s', however, viruses have received little attention and certainly no comprehensive study, especially using next generation sequencing (NGS), has been undertaken in this context. The current pandemic as well as those caused by Zika, influenza, Ebola and Lassa Fever (among many) have shown pregnant women and their baby are at high risk. Therefore, an open-minded approach is warranted when considering the role of maternal viral infections in CHD. Even less is known about maternal immune response, such as antibody production, to these viruses. The investigator's goal is to answer the above gaps in knowledge. The investigators propose to do that using two different approaches; one retrospective (analysis of samples in two existing, large biorepositories) and the other prospective. The investigator's have created a multi-disciplinary team to bring together the needed expertise from individuals who have overlapping and vested interest in this project. The investigator's specific aim is to examine the diversity of the gut virome in non-pregnant and pregnant women with and without diabetes, with special emphasis on known cardiotropic viruses (those with tropism for cardiac tissues). This study is seen by the investigator's as the first step prior to a larger prospective multi-institutional study to specifically assess the linkage between the maternal virome and CHD pathogenesis.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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