Clinical Trial: Therapeutic Effect of Sildenafil in Patients With Coronary Vasospasm
Study Status: Withdrawn
Recruit Status: Withdrawn
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Application of Sildenafil in Patients With Documented Coronary Vasospasm to Explore the Pathophysiology of Coronary Vasospasm and the Therapeu
Brief Summary:
This will be a prospective, phase IIIb, double-blind and randomized trial testing the effect of single dose sildenafil application in patients with coronary vasospasm compared to placebo application.
The target variable to be tested is the degree of coronary vasoconstriction in response to intracoronary ACh application (in addition to clinical chest pain) which will be imaged by coronary angiography and measured using quantitative coronary angiography software.
Main objective: Has sildenafil the potency to inhibit the induction of coronary vasospasm by intracoronary ACh-application in patients with proven coronary artery spasm?
Secondary objective: Which degree of coronary vasospasm inhibition can be achieved with sildenafil?
Detailed Summary:
Coronary artery spasm is an abrupt severe vasoconstrictor response which may occur spontaneously in normal and diseased coronary arteries. It may result in myocardial ischemia and may be provoked by various stimuli such as acetylcholine (ACh). Coronary vasospasm is involved in the pathogenesis of Prinzmetal's angina, acute myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrythmias and chest pain symptoms associated with viral myocarditis.
The precise cellular and molecular mechanisms of coronary vasospasm have not yet been elucidated. The most often suggested but competing explanations for this disease are coronary endothelial dysfunction secondary to impaired nitric oxide production versus coronary smooth muscle cell hyperreactivity with or without additional endothelial dysfunction. As the precise cellular mechanism is currently unknown a large group of people can currently not be treated appropriately despite the use of nitrates and calcium antagonists.
Sildenafil is a phosphodiesterase(PDE)-5 inhibitor approved for the treatment of both erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension. PDE-5 has been shown to be also present and play an important vasomotor role in the coronary vessel wall. Application of the inhibitor sildenafil has been shown to increase the resting coronary artery diameter. Furthermore, atherosclerotic coronary artery segments which vasoconstrict following intracoronary ACh-application vasodilate following the application of sildenafil when ACh-testing is repeated. Other studies are also suggesting an improved endothelial function after sildenafil application for both the coronary and the peripheral vasculature.
Taken together, sildenafil is expected to have a positive effect on coronary vasomotility. Whether sildenafil can totally pre
Sponsor: Udo Sechtem
Current Primary Outcome: Incidence of coronary vasospasm in spite of medical treatment [ Time Frame: After inclusion of last patient ]
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Information By: Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für Medizinische Forschung mbH
Dates:
Date Received: March 29, 2007
Date Started: March 1, 2007
Date Completion:
Last Updated: April 10, 2017
Last Verified: April 2017
