Cilostazol for HFpEF

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Clinical Trial

Official title:

Cilostazol for HFpEF (Heart Failure With a Preserved Ejection Fraction)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05126836
• Other study ID #: CV-2020-29436
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: September 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: University of Minnesota
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Determine if cilostazol improves symptoms and NTproBNP levels (heart failure blood marker) in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) - a prevalent syndrome without targeted evidence-based treatment. This will be assessed in a prospective 1-month single blinded study with 2 cross-overs n-of-1 study design with placebo and cilostazol

Description:

Heart failure (HF) is the #1 reason for hospital admissions. About half of the patients with HF have a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). There is no targeted evidence-based treatment for HFpEF. We recently reported that elevating the heart rate with pacemakers conveys clinical benefits e.g. reduction in heart failure symptoms, lowering filling pressures and an increase in walk distance. Cilostazol is a PDE3 inhibitor that increases the heart rate by about 5-8 beats per minute and has other potentially beneficial HFpEF effects such as peripheral vasodilation, lusitropic effects and dromotropic effects. By activating proteinkinase A, cilostazol may also phosphorylate titin, which may reduce myocardial stiffness. n-of-1 study design using the standard dose cilostazol formulation of 100mg twice a day approved for peripheral vascular disease. The investigators and patients are blinded. The patients serve as their own controls with two crossovers (Week 1: cilostazol or placebo - Week 2: placebo or cilostazol - Week 3: cilostazol or placebo - Week 4: placebo or cilostazol).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 25
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• >18 yrs
• LVEF = 50% (on last assessment, <2 years)
• Diagnosis of HFpEF or Shortness of breath with NYHA Class = 2 and one of the

following:

1. pulmonary edema on chest imaging or documented on exam or on loop diuretics

2. NTproBNP >400 ng/ml in the last 24 months

3. HFpEF>50% hospitalization in the last 3 years

4. Qualitative echo: > mild diastolic dysfunction on echo report and > mild left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial dilation or quantitative echo: left ventricular hypertrophy [men =115 g/m², women =95 g/m² or relative wall thickness >0.42 or any LV wall thickness >1.2cm and has LA dilation (>28ml/m2)

Exclusion Criteria:

• <18yo
• resting heart rate >100/min
• patients with LVEF <50%
• advanced end-stage heart failure,
• symptomatic COPD on home O2,
• uncontrolled severe HTN (SBP >160/100 mmHg)
• patients with life expectancy <6 months,
• end-stage liver cirrhosis,
• more than moderate valve disease,
• infiltrative myocardial disease
• constrictive pericarditis or myocarditis,
• patients unable to participate in follow up,
• pregnant patients or patients without reliable contraceptive agent for the duration of study participation),
• left ventricular outflow tract obstruction,
• bleeding dyscrasias, blood dyscrasias,
• Patients on oral ketoconazole, itraconazole, fluconazole, miconazole, fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, nefazodone, sertraline, erythromycin, clarithromycin or azithromycin

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure
• Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Intervention

Drug:
• Cilostazol 100Mg Tab
Cilostazol Twice a Day
• Placebo
Placebo

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	M Health Fairview	Minneapolis	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Minnesota

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	KCCQ-12	The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire contains 12 items that measure the effect of heart failure on health and quality of life. Total scores are scaled from 0 to 100 and frequently summarized in 25-point ranges, where scores represent health status as follows: 0 to 24: very poor to poor; 25 to 49: poor to fair; 50 to 74: fair to good; and 75 to 100: good to excellent	4 weeks
Secondary	NTproBNP	Blood marker of heart failure severity [pg/mL], average of 2 time points 1st and 3rd week	1st and 3rd week