Tezosentan in the Treatment of Acute Heart Failure

Summary

The randomized patients with acute heart failure will be stratified based on the presence or absence of a Swan-Ganz catheter and assigned to receive either tezosentan 5 mg/h for the first 30 minutes and 1 mg/h thereafter or matching placebo in a 1:1 manner. The duration of the treatment is 24 hours up to 72 hours. The duration of the follow-up period is 30 days after treatment initiation for death, re-hospitalizations and SAEs followed by a follow-up period of 5 months for vital status.

Timeline

Start

2003-04

Primary completion

2005-01

Completion

2005-01

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Tezosentan did not improve dyspnea more than placebo in either trial PMID 17986694 ↗

Publications

• Cotter G, Davison BA, Milo O, Bourge RC, Cleland JG, Jondeau G, Krum H, O'Connor CM, Metra M, Parker JD, Torre-Amione G, van Veldhuisen DJ, Kobrin I, Rainisio M, Senger S, Edwards C, McMurray JJ, Teerlink JR; VERITAS Investigators. Predictors and Associations With Outcomes of Length of Hospital Stay in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: Results From VERITAS. J Card Fail. 2016 Oct;22(10):815-22. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.12.017. Epub 2015 Dec 22.
• McMurray JJ, Teerlink JR, Cotter G, Bourge RC, Cleland JG, Jondeau G, Krum H, Metra M, O'Connor CM, Parker JD, Torre-Amione G, van Veldhuisen DJ, Lewsey J, Frey A, Rainisio M, Kobrin I; VERITAS Investigators. Effects of tezosentan on symptoms and clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure: the VERITAS randomized controlled trials. JAMA. 2007 Nov 7;298(17):2009-19. doi: 10.1001/jama.298.17.2009.

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