ArrhythmiaPhase 2NCT00000504
Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS)
A Phase 2 study testing encainide, moricizine and flecainide in people with Arrhythmia and Cardiovascular Diseases, run by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
Trial summary
To compare the effectiveness of various drugs and drug combinations in suppressing complex ventricular arrhythmias, and to evaluate their safety. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 75 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Arrhythmia, Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases
- What is being tested?
- encainide, moricizine and flecainide
- How many people
- Not given
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- Sep 1982to Sep 1985
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 75 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Men and women. Patients had acute myocardial infarction and ventricular arrhythmias.
About this study
To compare the effectiveness of various drugs and drug combinations in suppressing complex ventricular arrhythmias, and to evaluate their safety.
Read the detailed description
BACKGROUND:
Epidemiologic studies had indicated that complex ventricular premature beats made an independent contribution to risk of sudden death in survivors of a myocardial infarction (MI), and did not appear to be merely a reflection of their association with relatively severe myocardial damage. The potential for reduction in mortality by identification and administration of drugs capable of safely suppressing ventricular arrhythmias was tremendous. In 1982, there was incomplete knowledge regarding which types of ventricular arrhythmias responded to various kinds of drugs. A pilot study of antiarrhythmic agents helped clarify this issue.
Numerous antiarrhythmic agents with differing pharmacologic properties and side effects had been shown to suppress ventricular arrhythmias. It had also been postulated that antiarrhythmics might raise an individual's threshold for experiencing ventricular fibrillation. There had been several published reports of large (at least l00 patients), long-term clinical trials of antiarrhythmic agents in post-MI patients. None of these had yielded statistically significant results using mortality as the response variable. This might have been due to incorrect drug selection, inadequate sample size, inappropriate choice of patients, or the lack of impact of arrhythmia treatment on mortality.
Due to incomplete knowledge as to which drug(s) and combinations of drugs were most effective, it was considered to be premature to undertake a full scale trial in 1981-1982. However, the public health problem was of sufficient magnitude to warrant a pilot study to learn more about the efficacy and safety of various antiarrhythmic drugs singly or in combination.
The protocol planning phase began in October l982. Patient recruitment started in July l983 and ended in the summer of 1985. Each patient was followed for one year.
DESIGN NARRATIVE:
Randomized, double-blind, fixed sample. A total of 502 patients were randomly assigned to 5 treatment groups consisting of encainide, ethmozine, flecainide, imipramine, and placebo.
- Being tested
- encainide, moricizine, flecainide, imipramine
- Medical subject headings
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
encainideDrug
moricizineDrug
flecainideDrug
imipramineDrug
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted28 Oct 1999 (estimated)
- Study startSep 1982
- Study completionSep 1985
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (12)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for ArrhythmiaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)The sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Masking
- Double blind
Sponsor and investigators
- Sponsor type
- US National Institutes of Health
- Investigators
- Toshio Akiyama, University of RochesterAllan Barker, Salt Lake Clinic Research FoundationJ. Bigger, Columbia UniversityRobert Capone, Rhode Island HospitalLawrence Griffith, Johns Hopkins UniversityCraig Pratt, Baylor College of MedicineDavid Richardson, Medical College of VirginiaWilliam Rogers, University of Alabama at Birmingham
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00000504
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 23
- Status last verified
- Apr 2012
- First submitted
- 27 Oct 1999
- Last updated
- 27 Apr 2012
- Results posted
- No
Publications
The Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study. The CAPS investigators. Am J Cardiol. 1986 Jan 1;57(1):91-5. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(86)90958-6.
PubMed 2417474Recruitment and baseline description of patients in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS) investigators. Am J Cardiol. 1988 Apr 1;61(10):704-13. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)91052-1.
PubMed 2451414Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS) Investigators. Effects of encainide, flecainide, imipramine and moricizine on ventricular arrhythmias during the year after acute myocardial infarction: the CAPS. Am J Cardiol. 1988 Mar 1;61(8):501-9. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)90754-0.
PubMed 2894169Greene HL, Richardson DW, Barker AH, Roden DM, Capone RJ, Echt DS, Friedman LM, Gillespie MJ, Hallstrom AP, Verter J. Classification of deaths after myocardial infarction as arrhythmic or nonarrhythmic (the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study). Am J Cardiol. 1989 Jan 1;63(1):1-6. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(89)91065-5.
PubMed 2462341Greene HL, Richardson DW, Hallstrom AP, McBride R, Capone RJ, Barker AH, Roden DM, Echt DS. Congestive heart failure after acute myocardial infarction in patients receiving antiarrhythmic agents for ventricular premature complexes (Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study). Am J Cardiol. 1989 Feb 15;63(7):393-8. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(89)90306-8.
PubMed 2464919Anderson JL, Hallstrom AP, Griffith LS, Ledingham RB, Reiffel JA, Yusuf S, Barker AH, Fowles RE, Young JB. Relation of baseline characteristics to suppression of ventricular arrhythmias during placebo and active antiarrhythmic therapy in patients after myocardial infarction. Circulation. 1989 Mar;79(3):610-9. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.79.3.610.
PubMed 2465099Ahern DK, Gorkin L, Anderson JL, Tierney C, Hallstrom A, Ewart C, Capone RJ, Schron E, Kornfeld D, Herd JA, et al. Biobehavioral variables and mortality or cardiac arrest in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). Am J Cardiol. 1990 Jul 1;66(1):59-62. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(90)90736-k.
PubMed 2193497Follick MJ, Ahern DK, Gorkin L, Niaura RS, Herd JA, Ewart C, Schron EB, Kornfeld DS, Capone RJ. Relation of psychosocial and stress reactivity variables to ventricular arrhythmias in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). Am J Cardiol. 1990 Jul 1;66(1):63-7. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(90)90737-l.
PubMed 1694388Pratt CM, Hallstrom A, Theroux P, Romhilt D, Coromilas J, Myles J. Avoiding interpretive pitfalls when assessing arrhythmia suppression after myocardial infarction: insights from the long-term observations of the placebo-treated patients in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). J Am Coll Cardiol. 1991 Jan;17(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(91)90697-8.
PubMed 1702795Hallstrom AP, Bigger JT Jr, Roden D, Friedman L, Akiyama T, Richardson DW, Rogers WJ, Waldo AL, Pratt CM, Capone RJ, et al. Prognostic significance of ventricular premature depolarizations measured 1 year after myocardial infarction in patients with early postinfarction asymptomatic ventricular arrhythmia. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1992 Aug;20(2):259-64. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90089-6.
PubMed 1378858Wyse DG, Morganroth J, Ledingham R, Denes P, Hallstrom A, Mitchell LB, Epstein AE, Woosley RL, Capone R. New insights into the definition and meaning of proarrhythmia during initiation of antiarrhythmic drug therapy from the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial and its pilot study. The CAST and CAPS Investigators. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1994 Apr;23(5):1130-40. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)90601-7.
PubMed 8144779Haakenson C, Akiyama T, Hallstrom A, Sather MR. Masking drug treatments in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). FASHP for the CAPS Investigators. Control Clin Trials. 1996 Aug;17(4):294-303. doi: 10.1016/0197-2456(95)00195-6.
PubMed 8889344
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 27 Apr 2012. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS)
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00000504
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 23
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Lead sponsor
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)US National Institutes of Health
- Study start
- Sep 1982
- Study completion
- Sep 1985 (actual)
- First posted
- 28 Oct 1999 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
To compare the effectiveness of various drugs and drug combinations in suppressing complex ventricular arrhythmias, and to evaluate their safety.
Detailed description
BACKGROUND:
Epidemiologic studies had indicated that complex ventricular premature beats made an independent contribution to risk of sudden death in survivors of a myocardial infarction (MI), and did not appear to be merely a reflection of their association with relatively severe myocardial damage. The potential for reduction in mortality by identification and administration of drugs capable of safely suppressing ventricular arrhythmias was tremendous. In 1982, there was incomplete knowledge regarding which types of ventricular arrhythmias responded to various kinds of drugs. A pilot study of antiarrhythmic agents helped clarify this issue.
Numerous antiarrhythmic agents with differing pharmacologic properties and side effects had been shown to suppress ventricular arrhythmias. It had also been postulated that antiarrhythmics might raise an individual's threshold for experiencing ventricular fibrillation. There had been several published reports of large (at least l00 patients), long-term clinical trials of antiarrhythmic agents in post-MI patients. None of these had yielded statistically significant results using mortality as the response variable. This might have been due to incorrect drug selection, inadequate sample size, inappropriate choice of patients, or the lack of impact of arrhythmia treatment on mortality.
Due to incomplete knowledge as to which drug(s) and combinations of drugs were most effective, it was considered to be premature to undertake a full scale trial in 1981-1982. However, the public health problem was of sufficient magnitude to warrant a pilot study to learn more about the efficacy and safety of various antiarrhythmic drugs singly or in combination.
The protocol planning phase began in October l982. Patient recruitment started in July l983 and ended in the summer of 1985. Each patient was followed for one year.
DESIGN NARRATIVE:
Randomized, double-blind, fixed sample. A total of 502 patients were randomly assigned to 5 treatment groups consisting of encainide, ethmozine, flecainide, imipramine, and placebo.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Masking
- Double blind
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 75 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| encainide | Drug | – |
| moricizine | Drug | – |
| flecainide | Drug | – |
| imipramine | Drug | – |
Primary outcome
Not reported in the source record.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 27 Apr 2012.
- Background: PubMed 2417474The Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study. The CAPS investigators. Am J Cardiol. 1986 Jan 1;57(1):91-5. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(86)90958-6.
- Background: PubMed 2451414Recruitment and baseline description of patients in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS) investigators. Am J Cardiol. 1988 Apr 1;61(10):704-13. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)91052-1.
- Background: PubMed 2894169Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS) Investigators. Effects of encainide, flecainide, imipramine and moricizine on ventricular arrhythmias during the year after acute myocardial infarction: the CAPS. Am J Cardiol. 1988 Mar 1;61(8):501-9. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)90754-0.
- Background: PubMed 2462341Greene HL, Richardson DW, Barker AH, Roden DM, Capone RJ, Echt DS, Friedman LM, Gillespie MJ, Hallstrom AP, Verter J. Classification of deaths after myocardial infarction as arrhythmic or nonarrhythmic (the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study). Am J Cardiol. 1989 Jan 1;63(1):1-6. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(89)91065-5.
- Background: PubMed 2464919Greene HL, Richardson DW, Hallstrom AP, McBride R, Capone RJ, Barker AH, Roden DM, Echt DS. Congestive heart failure after acute myocardial infarction in patients receiving antiarrhythmic agents for ventricular premature complexes (Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study). Am J Cardiol. 1989 Feb 15;63(7):393-8. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(89)90306-8.
- Background: PubMed 2465099Anderson JL, Hallstrom AP, Griffith LS, Ledingham RB, Reiffel JA, Yusuf S, Barker AH, Fowles RE, Young JB. Relation of baseline characteristics to suppression of ventricular arrhythmias during placebo and active antiarrhythmic therapy in patients after myocardial infarction. Circulation. 1989 Mar;79(3):610-9. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.79.3.610.
- Background: PubMed 2193497Ahern DK, Gorkin L, Anderson JL, Tierney C, Hallstrom A, Ewart C, Capone RJ, Schron E, Kornfeld D, Herd JA, et al. Biobehavioral variables and mortality or cardiac arrest in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). Am J Cardiol. 1990 Jul 1;66(1):59-62. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(90)90736-k.
- Background: PubMed 1694388Follick MJ, Ahern DK, Gorkin L, Niaura RS, Herd JA, Ewart C, Schron EB, Kornfeld DS, Capone RJ. Relation of psychosocial and stress reactivity variables to ventricular arrhythmias in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). Am J Cardiol. 1990 Jul 1;66(1):63-7. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(90)90737-l.
- Background: PubMed 1702795Pratt CM, Hallstrom A, Theroux P, Romhilt D, Coromilas J, Myles J. Avoiding interpretive pitfalls when assessing arrhythmia suppression after myocardial infarction: insights from the long-term observations of the placebo-treated patients in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). J Am Coll Cardiol. 1991 Jan;17(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(91)90697-8.
- Background: PubMed 1378858Hallstrom AP, Bigger JT Jr, Roden D, Friedman L, Akiyama T, Richardson DW, Rogers WJ, Waldo AL, Pratt CM, Capone RJ, et al. Prognostic significance of ventricular premature depolarizations measured 1 year after myocardial infarction in patients with early postinfarction asymptomatic ventricular arrhythmia. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1992 Aug;20(2):259-64. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90089-6.
- Background: PubMed 8144779Wyse DG, Morganroth J, Ledingham R, Denes P, Hallstrom A, Mitchell LB, Epstein AE, Woosley RL, Capone R. New insights into the definition and meaning of proarrhythmia during initiation of antiarrhythmic drug therapy from the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial and its pilot study. The CAST and CAPS Investigators. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1994 Apr;23(5):1130-40. doi: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)90601-7.
- Background: PubMed 8889344Haakenson C, Akiyama T, Hallstrom A, Sather MR. Masking drug treatments in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS). FASHP for the CAPS Investigators. Control Clin Trials. 1996 Aug;17(4):294-303. doi: 10.1016/0197-2456(95)00195-6.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing encainide, moricizine and flecainide in people with Arrhythmia and Cardiovascular Diseases, run by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Apr 2012. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
What does this phase mean?
Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00000504, which also lists 12 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Apr 2012.