Perhexiline Therapy in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Syndrome

Summary

Up to half of all patients with clinical features of heart failure are found to have normal heart pumping function. Recently the investigators have shown that a drug called perhexiline markedly improved exercise capacity and symptoms in patients with heart failure associated with impaired cardiac pump function. In this proposal the investigators will assess whether perhexiline has beneficial effects in patients with heart failure and a normal heart pumping function.

Timeline

Start

2009-03

Primary completion

2014-02

Completion

2014-02

Publications

• Singh S, Beadle R, Cameron D, Rudd A, Bruce M, Jagpal B, Schwarz K, Brindley G, Mckiddie F, Lang C, Dawson D, Frenneaux M. Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of perhexiline in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction syndrome. Future Cardiol. 2014 Nov;10(6):693-8. doi: 10.2217/fca.14.62.

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