# Study on Early Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Placement in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

> **NCT04369573** · PHASE4 · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Niguarda Hospital** · enrollment: 100 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Cardiogenic Shock

## Interventions

- **COMBINATION_PRODUCT:** Early intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) implantation
- **OTHER:** Standard of care as vasoactive agent

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04369573
- **Lead sponsor:** Niguarda Hospital
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE4
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2020-05-04
- **Primary completion:** 2024-10-14
- **Final completion:** 2024-10-14
- **Target enrollment:** 100 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Because the Data Safety Monitoring Board after the interim analisys concluded that the experimental treatment is not proviiding any minimal full benefit compared to the contrtol. They then reccomended to stop the trial due to futility
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-23


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04369573

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04369573, "Study on Early Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Placement in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04369573. Licensed CC0.

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