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Pulmonary HypertensionPhase 1NCT00352430

Cardiopulmonary Function Assessment and NO-Based Therapies for Patients With Hemolysis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

A Phase 1 study testing Nitric Oxide/INP Pulse Delivery and Nitric Oxide/INO Pulse Delivery in people with Pulmonary Hypertension, run by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study will evaluate new treatments for people who have pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, caused by sickle cell anemia or thalassemia. Patients ages 18 and older with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease or thalassemia, who have mild to severe pulmonary hypertension, and who are not… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Pulmonary Hypertension
What is being tested?
Nitric Oxide/INP Pulse Delivery and Nitric Oxide/INO Pulse Delivery
How many people
31 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
9 Jul 2006to 10 Mar 2010
Phase
Phase 1
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 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Males or females, 18 years of age or older.
  • Diagnosis of sickle cell disease (electrophoretic documentation of SS, SC, or S thalassemia genotype is required) or thalassemia.
  • For female subjects, on a reliable method of birth control or not physically able to bear children.
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  • For Stage II:
  • Mild to severe pulmonary hypertension with mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25 mm Hg at rest or greater than 30 mm Hg during exercise, measured by pulmonary artery catheterization.
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  • Pulmonary artery wedge pressure or left ventricular end-diastolic pressure less than or equal to 18 mm Hg or gradient between pulmonary artery diastolic pressure and wedge pressure greater than 8 mm Hg or echocardiographic criteria to exclude left ventricular dysfunction.
  • For female subjects, on a reliable method of birth control or not physically able to bear children.
  • For Stage III:
  • Mild to severe pulmonary hypertension with mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25 mm Hg at rest or greater than 30 mm Hg during exercise, measured by pulmonary artery catheterization in patients on chronic sildenafil therapy for at least three months. Patients receiving combination drug therapy with other drugs (e.g., endothelin antagonists, prostacyclins) are allowed to participate in stage III as long as sildenafil is one of the components of the combination regimen.
  • Pulmonary artery wedge pressure or left ventricular end-diastolic pressure less than or equal to 18 mm Hg or gradient between pulmonary artery diastolic pressure and wedge pressure greater than 8 mm Hg or echocardiographic criteria to exclude left ventricular dysfunction.
  • Must be on chronic sildenafil therapy on a stable dose for at least three months.
  • For female subjects, on a reliable method of birth control or not physically able to bear children.

Who cannot join

  • For Stage I
  • Current pregnancy or lactation.
  • Any condition that in the opinion of the study investigators would adversely affect the outcome of the study or the safety of the volunteer.
  • For Stage II and III:
  • Current pregnancy or lactation.
  • Any of the following medical conditions
  • Stroke within the last six weeks.
  • History of sustained priapism requiring medical or surgical treatment, unless currently impotent or on exchange transfusion therapy, within two years.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

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About this study

Official title: Cardiopulmonary Function Assessment and NO Based Therapies for Patients With Hemolysis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

This study will evaluate new treatments for people who have pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, caused by sickle cell anemia or thalassemia.

Patients ages 18 and older with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease or thalassemia, who have mild to severe pulmonary hypertension, and who are not pregnant or breastfeeding may be eligible for this study. There are three stages in the study, with up to 200 participants in the screening. Patients will undergo pulmonary function tests, including those for asthma and measurement of oxygen levels in the arterial blood. They will have a chest X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan of the lungs, ventilation perfusion lung scan to look for blood clots, echocardiogram, test to measure how far patients can walk in 6 minutes, nighttime oxygen measurement done while asleep, blood collection, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the heart, and exercise test. About 3 to 4 days are needed for the tests, all of which can be done while patients are outpatients, except for the sleep study. For the CT scan, patients lie on a table while an X-ray beam takes images of the lungs and heart. The lung scan involves breathing of a small amount of a radioactive aerosol called Tc99m DTPA while pictures are taken of the lungs from various angles. Then an injection of albumin, a protein with a small amount of radioactivity, will be given, and more lung pictures will be taken. For the MRI scan, patients lie on a table that slides into a machine. A medication called gadolinium will be injected, to help improve images made through the scan. After the tests, patients will be admitted to the Clinical Center for 1 day. A small plastic catheter, or tube, will be placed in the vein of an arm. A longer catheter will go into a deeper vein (neck or leg), and a pulmonary artery catheter will be inserted to measure blood pressure in the blood vessels. Doctors will guide the catheter into the lung artery. Patients will be asked to pedal on a stationary bicycle while heart and lung pressure is measured. If pulmonary hypertension is present, patients will proceed to the second stage (up to 50 participants). While the catheter is still in place, patients will wear a face mask and breathe nitric oxide (NO) for 20 minutes. They will take 50 mg of sildenafil by mouth, and pressure in the heart and lungs will be monitored for about 4 hours. They will again receive NO for another 20 minutes. Blood samples will be taken, and the heart rhythm and pressure in the lungs will be monitored. Sildenafil can cause headache, flushing, and indigestion. Side effects of the lung scan involve allergic reactions to DTPA and albumin. Patients with an allergy to eggs should not have that test.

Up to 25 patients can enter the third stage. They will breathe NO by using a tank of gas that delivers it through tubes to the nose, for a period of 6 weeks. They will continue taking sildenafil as previously prescribed and visit the clinic every 2 to 4 weeks for an echocardiogram, blood tests, and 6-minute walk test. After 6 weeks, patients will have catheterization of the heart again to measure pressure in the heart and lungs. Then NO will be stopped, and pressure in the lungs will be checked to see if NO has helped lower the blood pressure-and to make sure that the blood pressure does not increase when medication is stopped. Patients whose symptoms have improved as a result of breathing NO may wish to continue with that therapy.

Read the detailed description

Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disorder and the most common genetic disease affecting African-Americans. Approximately 0.15% of African-Americans are homozygous for sickle cell disease, and 8% have sickle cell trait. Acute pain crisis, acute chest syndrome (ACS), and secondary pulmonary hypertension are common complications of sickle cell anemia. Pulmonary hypertension has now been identified as a major cause of death in adults with sickle cell disease. Similarly, pulmonary hypertension has been identified as a chronic complication of hemolytic disorders such as thalassemia, hereditary spherocytosis and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Sildenafil has been proposed as a possible therapy for both primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension and recent phase I/II studies from the intramural NIH suggest it is well tolerated and efficacious in this population. Furthermore, a number of recent studies have suggested that NO based therapies may have a favorable impact on sickle red cells at the molecular level and could improve the abnormal microvascular perfusion that is characteristic of sickle cell anemia.

This clinical trial is designed with three major objectives: 1) to assess cardiopulmonary function in patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia with and without pulmonary hypertension, 2) to determine the relative acute vasodilatory effects of sildenafil, and inhaled NO in patients with hemolysis-associated pulmonary hypertension and 3) to determine the chronic effects of the addition of inhaled NO on pulmonary hemodynamics and functional capacity in patients with hemolysis-associated pulmonary hypertension chronically treated with sildenafil.

Being tested
Nitric Oxide/INP Pulse Delivery, Nitric Oxide/INO Pulse Delivery
Keywords
Nitric Oxide, PDE Inhibitors, Pulmonary Hypertension, Sickle Cell, Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Anemia
Medical subject headings
Hypertension, Pulmonary, Thalassemia, Anemia, Sickle Cell

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Nitric Oxide/INP Pulse DeliveryDrug

  • Nitric Oxide/INO Pulse DeliveryDrug

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. To assess cardiopulmonary function in patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia with and without pulmonary hypertension.

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. To determine the relative acute vasodilatory effects of sildenafil, and inhaled NO in patients with hemolysis-associated pulmonary hypertension.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Jul 2006 (estimated)
  2. Study start9 Jul 2006
  3. Primary completion10 Mar 2010
  4. Study completion10 Mar 2010

Resources

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 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Enrolment
31 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00352430
Sponsor's protocol ID
060202
Other IDs
06-H-0202
Status last verified
7 Dec 2015
First submitted
13 Jul 2006
Last updated
25 Sep 2019
Results posted
No

Publications

  • Castro O. Systemic fat embolism and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 1996 Dec;10(6):1289-303. doi: 10.1016/s0889-8588(05)70401-9.

    PubMed 8956017
  • Sutton LL, Castro O, Cross DJ, Spencer JE, Lewis JF. Pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Am J Cardiol. 1994 Sep 15;74(6):626-8. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90760-9. No abstract available.

    PubMed 8074054
  • Norris SL, Johnson C, Haywood LJ. Left ventricular filling pressure in sickle cell anemia. J Assoc Acad Minor Phys. 1992;3(1):20-3.

    PubMed 1576456
  • Nguyen KL, Tian X, Alam S, Mehari A, Leung SW, Seamon C, Allen D, Minniti CP, Sachdev V, Arai AE, Kato GJ. Elevated transpulmonary gradient and cardiac magnetic resonance-derived right ventricular remodeling predict poor outcomes in sickle cell disease. Haematologica. 2016 Feb;101(2):e40-3. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2015.125229. Epub 2015 Nov 20. No abstract available.

    PubMed 26589907
  • Wang X, Mendelsohn L, Rogers H, Leitman S, Raghavachari N, Yang Y, Yau YY, Tallack M, Perkins A, Taylor JG 6th, Noguchi CT, Kato GJ. Heme-bound iron activates placenta growth factor in erythroid cells via erythroid Kruppel-like factor. Blood. 2014 Aug 7;124(6):946-54. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-11-539718. Epub 2014 Jun 10.

    PubMed 24916507
  • Villagra J, Shiva S, Hunter LA, Machado RF, Gladwin MT, Kato GJ. Platelet activation in patients with sickle disease, hemolysis-associated pulmonary hypertension, and nitric oxide scavenging by cell-free hemoglobin. Blood. 2007 Sep 15;110(6):2166-72. doi: 10.1182/blood-2006-12-061697. Epub 2007 May 29.

    PubMed 17536019

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing Nitric Oxide/INP Pulse Delivery and Nitric Oxide/INO Pulse Delivery in people with Pulmonary Hypertension, run by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 13 inclusion and 8 exclusion criteria. 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 25 Sep 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

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 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

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.

What does the primary outcome measure?

To assess cardiopulmonary function in patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia with and without pulmonary hypertension.. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00352430, which also lists 6 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 25 Sep 2019.

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