Peripartum CardiomyopathyPhase 2PPCMNCT00998556
Effect of Bromocriptine on Left Ventricular Function in Women With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
A Phase 2 study testing Bromocriptine in people with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, run by Hannover Medical School at 1 site in Germany.
Trial summary
This is a randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bromocriptine for improvement of left ventricular function of women with Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). A Multi center trial in Germany. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older, women only
- Conditions the study is for
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- What is being tested?
- Bromocriptine
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 64 participants
- Where
- 1 siteGermany
- Study dates
- Jun 2010to Aug 2016
- 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 years and older
- Women only
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Female subjects in the first 5 months postpartum with new onset of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (LV ejection fraction ≤35% as assessed by echocardiography) using the internationally accepted criteria for PPCM 1: absence of an identifiable cause of heart failure, absence of recognizable heart disease prior to the last month of pregnancy and LV systolic dysfunction demonstrated by classical echocardiographic criteria.
- Age equal or greater 18
- Written informed consent of the patient
Who cannot join
- Preexisting cardiac disease (except PPCM which had complete resolution in a previous pregnancy)
- Any preexisting serious conditions
- Previous cardiac surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention
- History of alcohol and/or any other drug abuse
- Contraindication to the planned therapy (e. g. hypersensitivity to trial medication or one of its components)
- Concomitant therapy other than specified in the trial protocol such as products for treatment of fungal infections, psychotropic drugs, medication with the active substances diclofenace, verapamil or doxycycline.
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- Women with child bearing potency without effective contraception (i. e. implants, injectables, combined oral contraceptives, some IUDs or vasectomized partner) during the conduct of the trial. Patients using hormonal methods of contraception must be informed about possible influences of the study drug on contraception, in addition heart failure drugs may interfere with contraception. Patients will be counselled about the safest method to be used for contraception.
- Expected low compliance (e.g. by travel distance to trial site)
- Concomitant participation in other clinical trials
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Effect of Bromocriptine on LV Function in Women With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Bromocriptine for Improvement of Left Ventricular Function of Women With PPCM
This is a randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bromocriptine for improvement of left ventricular function of women with Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). A Multi center trial in Germany.
Read the detailed description
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a serious life threatening heart disease of unknown etiology in previously healthy women. Only a minority of patients recovers completely while the majority of PPCM patients develop persistent ventricular dysfunction and may experience severe heart failure leading to cardiac transplantation. Thus, these young patients are very sick at a time when the newborn would need a healthy mother. Many of PPCM patients need lifelong treatment causing a large financial and social burden. Indeed, a better understanding of the disease and more efficient therapeutic options are urgently needed. To date, no specific therapy is available so that patients are treated by medical pharmacotherapy for heart failure.
Diagnosis of PPCM is usually made at advanced stages of the disease in severely symptomatic women but prognosis of affected women is poor with reported mortality rates of 15% and recovery in only 23% to 54% of PPCM patients despite optimal medical treatment. Therefore strategies are urgently needed to identify patients at risk and novel therapeutic approaches are required to improve poor prognosis of affected women.
The trial would establish a new specific therapeutic regimen for PPCM and the investigators can expect that such a novel approach would be rapidly adopted in the clinical management of this disease. Since the trial design follows state-of the-art guidelines, the investigators assume that bromocriptine would shortly be adopted into clinical guidelines of the German Cardiac Society, European Cardiac Society, and the American Heart Association.
- Conditions
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Being tested
- Bromocriptine
- Keywords
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy, Bromocriptine
- Medical subject headings
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
BromocriptineDrug
Patients randomized to the study medication have to take bromocriptine orally for the first 14 days at a dose of 5 mg/day (= 2 tablets, 1 in morning, 1 in the evening). From day 15 to day 56 they will take a dose of 2.5 mg (= 1 tablet) orally in the evening. The duration of the intervention is 8 weeks. The study medication is taken on top of standard therapy for heart failure.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Bromocriptine | Experimental | Patients randomized to the study medication have to take bromocriptine orally for the first 14 days at a dose of 5 mg/day (= 2 tablets, 1 in morning, 1 in the evening). From day 15 to day 56 they will take a dose of 2.5 mg (= 1 tablet) orally in the evening. The duration of the intervention is 8 weeks, thereafter the patients continue to be observed in the follow-up part of the study up to month 6. The study medication is taken on top of standard therapy for heart failure. Part of this therapy are ACE inhibitors. ACE inhibitors are potentially harmful for the baby when getting into the breast milk, as bromocriptine stops milk production, no additional drug is needed. Receives: Drug: Bromocriptine |
| Control Group | No intervention | The control group will receive standard therapy for heart failure. Part of this therapy are ACE inhibitors. Since ACE inhibitors are potentially harmful for the baby when getting into the breast milk, it is necessary to stop lactation in the control group as well.To stop lactation, application of bromocriptine (2.5mg/day) for up to one week. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to six months follow-up
Change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to six months follow-up as assessed by cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) \& Echocardiography
Measured: 6 months
Secondary outcomes (1)
Combined endpoint of hospitalization for heart failure, eligibility for cardiac transplantation, cardiac transplantation, and mortality during 6 months follow-up
Combined endpoint of hospitalization for heart failure, eligibility for cardiac transplantation, cardiac transplantation, and mortality during 6 months follow-up; individual components of the combined endpoint; adverse events
Measured: 6 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted20 Oct 2009 (estimated)
- Study startJun 2010
- Primary completionMar 2016
- Study completionAug 2016
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (3)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Peripartum CardiomyopathyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- 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
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 64 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Hannover Medical School
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, PhD, Hannover Medical School
- Investigators
- Johann Bauersachs, Prof. Dr., Principal investigator, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GermanyDenise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Prof. Dr., Study chair, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00998556
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- PPCM
- Acronym
- PPCM
- Status last verified
- Sep 2020
- First submitted
- 19 Oct 2009
- Last updated
- 7 Sep 2020
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Feyen E, Ricke-Hoch M, Van Fraeyenhove J, Vermeulen Z, Scherr M, Dugaucquier L, Viereck J, Bruyns T, Thum T, Segers VFM, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, De Keulenaer GW. ERBB4 and Multiple MicroRNAs That Target ERBB4 Participate in Pregnancy-Related Cardiomyopathy. Circ Heart Fail. 2021 Jul;14(7):e006898. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.120.006898. Epub 2021 Jul 12.
PubMed 34247489Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Haghikia A, Berliner D, Vogel-Claussen J, Schwab J, Franke A, Schwarzkopf M, Ehlermann P, Pfister R, Michels G, Westenfeld R, Stangl V, Kindermann I, Kuhl U, Angermann CE, Schlitt A, Fischer D, Podewski E, Bohm M, Sliwa K, Bauersachs J. Bromocriptine for the treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a multicentre randomized study. Eur Heart J. 2017 Sep 14;38(35):2671-2679. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx355.
PubMed 28934837Haghikia A, Podewski E, Berliner D, Sonnenschein K, Fischer D, Angermann CE, Bohm M, Rontgen P, Bauersachs J, Hilfiker-Kleiner D. Rationale and design of a randomized, controlled multicentre clinical trial to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine on left ventricular function in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Clin Res Cardiol. 2015 Nov;104(11):911-7. doi: 10.1007/s00392-015-0869-5. Epub 2015 May 31.
PubMed 26026286
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 7 Sep 2020. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Effect of Bromocriptine on LV Function in Women With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Bromocriptine for Improvement of Left Ventricular Function of Women With PPCM
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00998556
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PPCM / PPCM
- Conditions
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Keywords
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy, Bromocriptine
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 64 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Hannover Medical SchoolUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Study start
- Jun 2010
- Primary completion
- Mar 2016 (actual)
- Study completion
- Aug 2016 (actual)
- First posted
- 20 Oct 2009 (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.
This is a randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bromocriptine for improvement of left ventricular function of women with Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). A Multi center trial in Germany.
Detailed description
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a serious life threatening heart disease of unknown etiology in previously healthy women. Only a minority of patients recovers completely while the majority of PPCM patients develop persistent ventricular dysfunction and may experience severe heart failure leading to cardiac transplantation. Thus, these young patients are very sick at a time when the newborn would need a healthy mother. Many of PPCM patients need lifelong treatment causing a large financial and social burden. Indeed, a better understanding of the disease and more efficient therapeutic options are urgently needed. To date, no specific therapy is available so that patients are treated by medical pharmacotherapy for heart failure.
Diagnosis of PPCM is usually made at advanced stages of the disease in severely symptomatic women but prognosis of affected women is poor with reported mortality rates of 15% and recovery in only 23% to 54% of PPCM patients despite optimal medical treatment. Therefore strategies are urgently needed to identify patients at risk and novel therapeutic approaches are required to improve poor prognosis of affected women.
The trial would establish a new specific therapeutic regimen for PPCM and the investigators can expect that such a novel approach would be rapidly adopted in the clinical management of this disease. Since the trial design follows state-of the-art guidelines, the investigators assume that bromocriptine would shortly be adopted into clinical guidelines of the German Cardiac Society, European Cardiac Society, and the American Heart Association.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Bromocriptine | Experimental | Drug: BromocriptinePatients randomized to the study medication have to take bromocriptine orally for the first 14 days at a dose of 5 mg/day (= 2 tablets, 1 in morning, 1 in the evening). From day 15 to day 56 they will take a dose of 2.5 mg (= 1 tablet) orally in the evening. The duration of the intervention is 8 weeks, thereafter the patients continue to be observed in the follow-up part of the study up to month 6. The study medication is taken on top of standard therapy for heart failure. Part of this therapy are ACE inhibitors. ACE inhibitors are potentially harmful for the baby when getting into the breast milk, as bromocriptine stops milk production, no additional drug is needed. |
| Control Group | No intervention | –The control group will receive standard therapy for heart failure. Part of this therapy are ACE inhibitors. Since ACE inhibitors are potentially harmful for the baby when getting into the breast milk, it is necessary to stop lactation in the control group as well.To stop lactation, application of bromocriptine (2.5mg/day) for up to one week. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Female subjects in the first 5 months postpartum with new onset of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (LV ejection fraction ≤35% as assessed by echocardiography) using the internationally accepted criteria for PPCM 1: absence of an identifiable cause of heart failure, absence of recognizable heart disease prior to the last month of pregnancy and LV systolic dysfunction demonstrated by classical echocardiographic criteria.
- Age equal or greater 18
- Written informed consent of the patient
Key exclusion criteria (9 listed)
- Preexisting cardiac disease (except PPCM which had complete resolution in a previous pregnancy)
- Any preexisting serious conditions
- Previous cardiac surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention
- History of alcohol and/or any other drug abuse
- Contraindication to the planned therapy (e. g. hypersensitivity to trial medication or one of its components)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BromocriptinePatients randomized to the study medication have to take bromocriptine orally for the first 14 days at a dose of 5 mg/day (= 2 tablets, 1 in morning, 1 in the evening). From day 15 to day 56 they will take a dose of 2.5 mg (= 1 tablet) orally in the evening. The duration of the intervention is 8 weeks. The study medication is taken on top of standard therapy for heart failure. | Drug | Bromocriptine |
Primary outcome
Change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to six months follow-up
Time frame: 6 months
Change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to six months follow-up as assessed by cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) \& Echocardiography
1 secondary outcome
Combined endpoint of hospitalization for heart failure, eligibility for cardiac transplantation, cardiac transplantation, and mortality during 6 months follow-up
Time frame: 6 months
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 7 Sep 2020.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 34247489Feyen E, Ricke-Hoch M, Van Fraeyenhove J, Vermeulen Z, Scherr M, Dugaucquier L, Viereck J, Bruyns T, Thum T, Segers VFM, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, De Keulenaer GW. ERBB4 and Multiple MicroRNAs That Target ERBB4 Participate in Pregnancy-Related Cardiomyopathy. Circ Heart Fail. 2021 Jul;14(7):e006898. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.120.006898. Epub 2021 Jul 12.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 28934837Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Haghikia A, Berliner D, Vogel-Claussen J, Schwab J, Franke A, Schwarzkopf M, Ehlermann P, Pfister R, Michels G, Westenfeld R, Stangl V, Kindermann I, Kuhl U, Angermann CE, Schlitt A, Fischer D, Podewski E, Bohm M, Sliwa K, Bauersachs J. Bromocriptine for the treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a multicentre randomized study. Eur Heart J. 2017 Sep 14;38(35):2671-2679. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx355.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 26026286Haghikia A, Podewski E, Berliner D, Sonnenschein K, Fischer D, Angermann CE, Bohm M, Rontgen P, Bauersachs J, Hilfiker-Kleiner D. Rationale and design of a randomized, controlled multicentre clinical trial to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine on left ventricular function in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Clin Res Cardiol. 2015 Nov;104(11):911-7. doi: 10.1007/s00392-015-0869-5. Epub 2015 May 31.
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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.
Johann Bauersachs, Prof. Dr. principal investigator
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Prof. Dr. study chair
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing Bromocriptine in people with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, run by Hannover Medical School at 1 site in Germany.
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 3 inclusion and 9 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 7 Sep 2020. 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 Germany. 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 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.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from baseline to six months follow-up (time frame: 6 months). 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 NCT00998556, which also lists 3 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 7 Sep 2020.