EPOMI Study: ErythroPOietin in Myocardial Infarction

Summary

EPOMI is a randomized, open-label, parallel phase II clinical study that will evaluate the effects of a single erythropoietin administration on infarct size and cardiac remodeling in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to receive conventional therapy and single infusion of 1000U/kg of epoetin beta or conventional therapy alone. Infarct size and cardiac remodeling parameters will be assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 3-7 days of the randomization and repeated 3 months later.

Timeline

Start

2008-04

Primary completion

2010-12

Completion

2010-12

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Single high-dose EPO administered immediately after successful reperfusion in patients with STEMI did not reduce infarct size at 3-month follow-up. PMID 22305837 ↗

paper After 3 months, median infarct size (interquartile range) was 17.5 g (7.6-26.1 g) in the EPO group and 16.0 g (9.4-28.2 g) in the control group (P = .64); PMID 22305837 ↗

Publications

• Prunier F, Biere L, Gilard M, Boschat J, Mouquet F, Bauchart JJ, Charbonnier B, Genee O, Guerin P, Warin-Fresse K, Durand E, Lafont A, Christiaens L, Abi-Khalil W, Delepine S, Benard T, Furber A. Single high-dose erythropoietin administration immediately after reperfusion in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results of the erythropoietin in myocardial infarction trial. Am Heart J. 2012 Feb;163(2):200-7.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2011.11.005.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	EPO	Unknown	1000 iu/kg	Intravenous

Indications