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Predicting Successful Sleep Apnea Treatment With Acetazolamide in Heart Failure Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01377987

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Official title

Physiological Study to Predict Successful Sleep Apnea Treatment With Acetazolamide in Heart Failure Patients

Brief summary

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The ultimate goal is to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology and resistance to effective treatment of sleep disordered breathing in patients with heart failure, with a focus on selecting patients that will benefit specifically from acetazolamide treatment. The study addresses three primary hypotheses: 1) Acetazolamide treatment will reduce the apnea-hypopnea index and improve markers of heart-failure severity in heart-failure patients with sleep apnea. 2) Acetazolamide will provide the greatest improvement in patients with the most severe ventilatory control instability (strongest chemoreflex response to carbon dioxide; highest loop gain). 3) Acetazolamide will act primarily via stabilizing ventilatory control (reducing loop gain), rather than via improvement to upper airway anatomy, pulmonary congestion, and cardiac function.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01377987
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
David Andrew Wellman
Other
Enrollment
29 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Drug

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 89 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Jul 31, 2011
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2016
Completion
Nov 30, 2016
Last update posted
Jun 12, 2018

2011 – 2016

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02115 —

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