Effect of Simvastatin on Cardiac Function

NCT ID: NCT01178710

Last Updated: 2012-07-26

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

151 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-09-30

Study Completion Date

2012-07-31

Brief Summary

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It is well know that statins have been used to low cholesterol to prevent and treat coronary artery disease for many years. It was also reported that statins could protect endothelial function and cardiac function during coronary artery bypass graft. However, some results were controversial. Also, there is no clinical data available on statin cardiac protection during surgery in China where rheumatic heart disease is prevalent. Thus, the investigators are trying to see whether statins can protect heart injury during cardiac surgery in Chinese. Part of patients will receive statin treatment and part of will not before surgery in the study. Both patients' heart function will be measured and compared after surgery to determine whether statins can protect heart injury during heart surgery.

Detailed Description

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Cardiac function is crucial for cardiac surgery. The mortality remains very high in patients with poor cardiac function preoperation, long surgical time, complicate or difficult surgical procedure or uncompleted corrected malformation currently. Thus, it is necessary to search other approaches to improve cardiac function for cardiac surgery patients in order to increase the success, decrease complication and mortality in cardiac surgery.

Although statin has been used to low cholesterol to prevent and treat coronary artery disease for many years, it has been reported that statin could protect endothelial function and cardiac function in coronary artery bypass graft. However, some results were controversy. Also, there is no clinical data available on statin cardiac protection during surgery in China where rheumatic heart disease is prevalence.Thus, it is necessary to perform a double blind, randomised clinical trial in China to determine whether statin can protect heart injury during heart surgery in China and what's its mechanism.

Conditions

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Rheumatic Heart Disease Congenital Heart Disease Aneurysm Heart Valve Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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treatment

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Simvastatin

Intervention Type DRUG

20 mg per day, start at 5 days before surgery and continue for one year. For some congenital heart diseases which other drugs such as digoxin, antistone, furosemide were prescribed less than half year, simvastatin will be prescribed less than half year.

untreated

control

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Simvastatin

20 mg per day, start at 5 days before surgery and continue for one year. For some congenital heart diseases which other drugs such as digoxin, antistone, furosemide were prescribed less than half year, simvastatin will be prescribed less than half year.

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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simcor

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* cyanotic congenital heart disease
* noncyanotic congenital heart disease with pulmonary hypertension
* Heart valve disease,
* other heart and great artery diseases need heart or great artery surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* Coronary artery disease
* under 10-year-old.
* noncyanotic congenital heart disease without pulmonary hypertension
* poor liver function such AST elevated,Hepatitis
* Gestation women and Breast-feeding women
Minimum Eligible Age

10 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sun Yat-sen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jing-song Ou

associate chief

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jing-song Ou, MD,PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Frist Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

Locations

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The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

References

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White CW, Gobel FL, Campeau L, Knatterud GL, Forman SA, Forrester JS, Geller NL, Herd JA, Hickey A, Hoogwerf BJ, Hunninghake DB, Rosenberg Y, Terrin ML; Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Trial Investigators. Effect of an aggressive lipid-lowering strategy on progression of atherosclerosis in the left main coronary artery from patients in the post coronary artery bypass graft trial. Circulation. 2001 Nov 27;104(22):2660-5. doi: 10.1161/hc4701.099730.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 11723015 (View on PubMed)

Ali IS, Buth KJ. Preoperative statin use and outcomes following cardiac surgery. Int J Cardiol. 2005 Aug 3;103(1):12-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.06.006. Epub 2004 Nov 6.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 16061117 (View on PubMed)

Greer JJ, Kakkar AK, Elrod JW, Watson LJ, Jones SP, Lefer DJ. Low-dose simvastatin improves survival and ventricular function via eNOS in congestive heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006 Dec;291(6):H2743-51. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00347.2006. Epub 2006 Jul 14.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 16844920 (View on PubMed)

Almansob MA, Xu B, Zhou L, Hu XX, Chen W, Chang FJ, Ci HB, Yao JP, Xu YQ, Yao FJ, Liu DH, Zhang WB, Tang BY, Wang ZP, Ou JS. Simvastatin reduces myocardial injury undergoing noncoronary artery cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 Sep;32(9):2304-13. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.112.252098. Epub 2012 Jul 12.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 22796581 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

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statinstudy1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id