Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Trial
— SPARVASCOfficial title:
Effects of Simultaneous ETA & AT1 Receptor Antagonism on Endothelial Function & Vascular Stiffness in ANCA-associated Vasculitis (SPARsentan in VASCulitis - SPARVASC)
ANCA-associated vasculitis is an autoimmune disease that causes damage to blood vessels. This leads to organ damage with the number of organs affected and the severity of damage varying significantly between patients. Vasculitis patients also have a very high risk of heart attacks and strokes, called cardiovascular disease. A chemical called 'endothelin', produced by the blood vessels, causes vessels to stiffen and raises blood pressure and this associates with cardiovascular risk. The investigators have previously shown that by blocking the effects of endothelin you reduce vessel stiffness, lower blood pressure and improve vessel function. However, these studies only blocked endothelin for a few hours. Now, the investigators would like to see if it is possible to maintain these benefits by blocking endothelin for longer. Sparsentan is a tablet that blocks endothelin and lowers blood pressure. The investigators plan to give sparsentan to patients with vasculitis for 6 weeks. To determine if any beneficial effects of sparsentan are due to blood pressure lowering the investigators will give another group of vasculitis patients a tablet called irbesartan which lowers blood pressure but does not block endothelin. The investigators will compare the results between the two groups.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 40 |
Est. completion date | September 1, 2027 |
Est. primary completion date | December 1, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - 18 years or older - A diagnosis of ANCA-associated vasculitis that has been in remission for =6 months. The diagnosis of AAV will have been made in accordance with the 2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides criteria. Remission will be defined as a Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS) of 0 for at least 2 months prior to the screening visit whilst taking prednisolone at daily dose =7.5mg, in conjunction with the treating clinician's assessment of clinically silent disease. - eGFR =25ml/min/1.73m2 at screening. - Women of childbearing potential, beginning at menarche, must agree to the use of one highly reliable method of contraception (ie, a failure rate of <1% per year) for at least 30 days prior to the first dose of the study medication (ie, for hormonal contraception) or according to manufacturer's recommendation (ie, for an intrauterine device) until 30 days after the last dose of the study medication, and must have a negative pregnancy test at screening. Women of childbearing potential are defined as those who are fertile, following menarche and until becoming postmenopausal, unless permanently sterile; permanent sterilization methods include hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy, and bilateral oophorectomy. A postmenopausal state is defined as amenorrhea for more than 24 consecutive months without an alternative medical cause; women on hormone replacement therapy must have a documented plasma follicle-stimulating hormone level >40 mIU/mL. Exclusion Criteria: - Age <18 years - Active vasculitis - Liver disease - Untreated hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure >160 bpm and diastolic blood pressure >100 bpm) - eGFR <25ml/min/1.73m2 - Any organ transplant recipients - Haemodialysis/peritoneal dialysis patients - A requirement for any medications contraindicated whilst taking sparsentan - Congestive heart failure - Patients not medically fit to attend for study visits - Patients without mental capacity or willingness to provide informed consent - History of multiple and/or severe (clinical judgement as determined by the investigator) allergic reactions to drugs, including the study drug or food. - Patients who are pregnant or breast feeding, or those who plan to become pregnant during the study - Participation in another clinical trial for 28 days before or 90 days after the study period. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United Kingdom | Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent | Edinburgh |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Edinburgh | Travere Therapeutics, Inc. |
United Kingdom,
Farrah TE, Melville V, Czopek A, Fok H, Bruce L, Mills NL, Bailey MA, Webb DJ, Dear JW, Dhaun N. Arterial stiffness, endothelial dysfunction and impaired fibrinolysis are pathogenic mechanisms contributing to cardiovascular risk in ANCA-associated vasculitis. Kidney Int. 2022 Nov;102(5):1115-1126. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2022.07.026. Epub 2022 Aug 20. — View Citation
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) | Change from baseline OCT measures to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | Comparing baseline to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Other | Fluorescence-activated cell sorting | Change from Baseline peripheral blood cells (balance of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cells) analyzed using flow cytometry to after 6 weeks of treatment. | Comparing baseline to after 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Other | Endothelin-1 clearance | Change from Baseline peripheral blood monocytes ability to clear endothelin-1 using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to after 6 weeks of treatment. | Comparing baseline to after 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Primary | Forearm blood flow | Change from baseline to week 6 in acetylcholine-mediated forearm blood flow vasodilatation | Comparing baseline to after 6 weeks of intervention. | |
Secondary | Fibrinolytic capacity | Plasma concentration of tissue plasminogen activator in response to bradykinin will be assessed before and after 6 weeks of intervention. Both tPA activity (in IU/ml) and tPA antigen (in ng/mL) will be assessed. | Comparing baseline to after 6 weeks of intervention. | |
Secondary | Blood pressure | Change from baseline 24h blood pressure and office blood pressure to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. We will assess systolic and diastolic blood pressure values as well as mean arterial pressure in mmHg. | Comparing baseline to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Secondary | Arterial stiffness | Change from baseline arterial stiffness to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. We will use a high fidelity micromanometer connected to a Sphygmocor device to measure pulse wave velocity in metres/second and augmentation index corrected for a heart rate of 75bpm measured in percentage. | Comparing baseline to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Secondary | Systemic haemodynamics | Change from baseline measures of systemic haemodynamics to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. We will use a BioZ diagnostics machine produced by CardioDynamics. This machine uses electrodes placed on the thorax and neck to automatically measure the following parameters of the heart beat cycle.
Heart rate in beats/minute Stroke volume in mL/beat Stroke index in mL/beat/metre squared Cardiac output in L/min Cardiac Index in L/min/metre squared Systemic vascular resistance in dyne sec cm-5 Systemic vascular resistance index in dyne sec cm-5 metre squared Systolic time ratio index in sec-1 Thoracic fluid content in kiloohm-1 |
Comparing baseline to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | |
Secondary | Proteinuria | Change from baseline measures of proteinuria to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. | Comparing baseline to after 3 and 6 weeks of treatment. |
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