NCT02755298

Chronic Clinical Effect of Acetazolamide

Chronic Clinical Effect of Acetazolamide in Pulmonary Hypertension

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study seeks primarily to determine the chronic clinical effect of AZA on exercise capacity (6MWD) compared to placebo.

Detailed description

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) of various etiologies causes dyspnea, impairs exercise performance and is associated with reduced quality of life (QoL) and survival. Treatment options include therapy for any underlying causes, pulmonary vasodilator drugs, oxygen and, in selected cases, pulmonary endarterectomy or lung transplantation. Unfortunately, PH specific drugs are expensive, associated with side effects and even combined pharmacological treatment is often not sufficient to achieve clinical benefits. Therefore, novel therapeutic drugs are needed. We have recently demonstrated that sleep related breathing disorders, which are common in PH patients, can be improved by both nocturnal oxygen therapy and acetazolamide (AZA). AZA is a carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor that acts as a respiratory stimulant thereby improving oxygenation and possibly PH. There are even data suggesting that CA-inhibitors have a direct pulmonary vasodilator effect. However, the potential role of AZA in the treatment of PH has not been conclusively studied. Therefore, the purpose of the current project is to investigate, the chronic clinical effects of AZA in PH patients.

Conditions

• Hypertension, Pulmonary

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Acetazolamide
DRUG	Placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-11-01
• Completion: 2020-11-01
• First posted: 2016-04-28
• Last updated: 2020-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland