Heart Pressure Assessment Study With Tolvaptan to Treat Congestive Heart Failure

Summary

This study will look at how a single dose of study medication (tolvaptan) versus an inactive sugar pill (placebo) effect pressures in the heart in patients with congestive heart failure. Higher than normal pressures can be related to symptoms of heart failure (shortness of breath, fatigue, etc.).

Timeline

Start

2004-12

Primary completion

2006-12

Completion

2006-12

Publications

• Hiukka A, Westerbacka J, Leinonen ES, Watanabe H, Wiklund O, Hulten LM, Salonen JT, Tuomainen TP, Yki-Jarvinen H, Keech AC, Taskinen MR. Long-term effects of fenofibrate on carotid intima-media thickness and augmentation index in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Dec 16;52(25):2190-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.09.049.
• Udelson JE, Orlandi C, Ouyang J, Krasa H, Zimmer CA, Frivold G, Haught WH, Meymandi S, Macarie C, Raef D, Wedge P, Konstam MA, Gheorghiade M. Acute hemodynamic effects of tolvaptan, a vasopressin V2 receptor blocker, in patients with symptomatic heart failure and systolic dysfunction: an international, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Nov 4;52(19):1540-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.08.013.

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