Endocrine Cardiomyopathy in Cushing Syndrome: Response to Cyclic GMP PDE5 inhibitOrs

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

18 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-31

Study Completion Date

2021-06-30

Brief Summary

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Pathophysiology of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) cardiomyopathy is yet unclear and a specific treatment have not been indicated. It was already demonstrated the positive impact of phosphodiesterase type 5A (PDE5A) inhibition in several models of cardiomyopathy and in a model of endocrine cardiomyopathy due to type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this patients with diabetic cardiomyopathy it was demonstrated an improvement in cardiac kinetic, geometry and performance parameters and reduction of the ambulatory measurement of waist circumference.

This represents the first study that evaluate heart remodeling and performance changes and metabolic/immunological/molecular parameters after 5-months of Tadalafil 20 mg in Cushing's Syndrome cardiomyopathy. The proposed research will test whether phosphodiesterase 5A inhibition could become a new target for anti-remodeling drugs and to discover molecular pathways affected by this class of drugs and a network of circulating markers (miRNA) for the early diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome cardiomyopathy.

The investigators hypothesize that:

* the signal molecules cGMP and cAMP could underlie the hypertrophic/profibrotic triggers related to this model of endocrine cardiomyopathy and that chronic inhibition of PDE5, activating cGMP signaling pathways, could improve cardiac remodeling due to CS;
* PDE5 inhibition could have a role in lipolytic regulation;
* neuroendocrine (e.g. natriuretic peptides) and metabolic markers and chemokines (e.g. MCP-1, TGF-ß) might relate with left ventricular remodeling in CS;
* there are neuroendocrine (e.g. natriuretic peptides), metabolic markers and chemokines (e.g. MCP-1, TGF-ß) related to cardiac disease in CS;
* miRNA expression \[miR-208a, 499, 1, 133, 126, 29, 233, 222, 4454\] might relate with left ventricular remodeling in CS;

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Detailed Description

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Mechanisms of action and evolutionary progression of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) cardiomyopathy are not yet been well elucidated and a specific treatment has not been identified. Our study aims to characterize the CS cardiomyopathy in terms of measuring the cardiac kinetic and performance parameters (tagged Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging), fibrosis (T1-mapping technique). Our study will evaluate if PDE5A inhibition could become a new target for antiremodeling drugs in CS treated patients that developed cardiac hypertrophy and/or diastolic dysfunction independently of CS care accorded by current guidelines. The investigators also will explore the potential mechanisms of action of PDE5Ai: if exerted on cardiac tissue directly and contemporary also on other secondary pathways (analyzing vascular, endothelial, or metabolic markers).

A multidisciplinary approach will allow identifying a cluster of cardiovascular (NT-ProBNP, TGFb, MCP1) and metabolic indices, oxidative stress markers (iNOS, COX2, ROS, RANTES) and miRNAs, whose variations will analyze together with the CS cardiomyopathy parameters measured at CMR and 2D-echocardiography.

The Primary Objective is to evaluate the effects of PDE5Ai on Left Ventricular (LV) remodeling (kinetic and geometry parameters) at cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) with tagging technique and contrast-enhanced and/or at 2D echocardiography with Tissue Doppler Imaging and speckle tracking in patients with CS cardiomyopathy

Secondary Objectives :

* to measure the effect of PDE5Ai on LV fibrosis at T1-mapping CMR at baseline and after PDE5Ai administration.
* to measure the effect of PDE5Ai on cardiac performance at cine CMR and at 2D echocardiography with Tissue Doppler Imaging and speckle tracking at baseline and after PDE5Ai administration.
* to measure the effect PDE5Ai of circulating cardiac-inflammatory-metabolic-endothelial molecular markers
* to measure the effect on bone and body composition

Patients will be screened at time 0. Follow up visits will take place every 4 weeks during treatment for 5 months and 1 month after the end of treatment.

Diagnostic procedures will include:

* physical examination with measurement of anthropometric parameters (weight, waist circumference, hip circumference) and vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate);
* blood sampling for assessing glucose and lipid metabolism, liver, renal, hematopoietic and coagulative function, thyroid and androgen hormones, ACTH and UFC, inflammatory parameters (cytokines, monocyte subpopulations) and microRNA;
* SF36, FSFI (in women), IEFF e IPSS (in men) questionnaires;
* cardiac exam, electrocardiogram and echocardiogram;
* MOC with DEXA;
* magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with contrast-enhanced cardiac: T1-mapping for assessing cardiac fibrosis; tagging for evaluating kinetic parameters (torsion);

This is a pilot study proof-of-concept, then 10 patients are sufficient to detect the effect of PDE5Ai on cardiac remodeling in CS cardiomyopathy. Estimating a 80% drop-out of the study due to the complexity of CS and the related neuro-psychiatric involvement, 18 CS patients will be enrolled.

All variables will be tested for normality. Statistical analyzes will be performed using SPSS 18.0. The comparison before and after treatment will be made by non parametric Wilcoxon test. The investigators will calculate the confidence interval for the prevalence of the effect measured by χ2 test or Fisher exact test. The correlation was perfomed by Rho di Spearman.

Conditions

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Cushing's Syndrome Cardiomyopathy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Tadalafil

Tadalafil 20 mg to be taken orally once daily, for 3 months

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Tadalafil

Intervention Type DRUG

Tadalafil 20 mg to be taken orally once daily, for 3 months

Interventions

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Tadalafil

Tadalafil 20 mg to be taken orally once daily, for 3 months

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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Cialis

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age\>18 yrs;
* patients (men and women) with previous diagnosis of Cushing Syndrome (CS), surgically and/or clinically treated according to current guidelines, with stable parameters of CS disease in the last 3 months, and with concomitant cardiac hypertrophy and/or diastolic dysfunction developed independently of CS care and detected by 2D echocardiography;
* urinary free cortisol (UFC) levels in the normal range for sex and age;
* normal blood pressure or controlled hypertension

Exclusion Criteria

* use of thiazolidinediones, or spironolactone; nitrates, doxazosin, terazosin e prazosin;
* current use of PDE5 inhibitors or previous (wash out of two months at least);
* congenital or valvular cardiomyopathy;
* recent ischemic heart disease or revascularization after a myocardial infarction (MI);
* contraindications to tadalafil use (hypersensitivity to tadalafil, nitrates use, severe cardiovascular disorders such as unstable angina or severe heart failure, severe hepatic impairment, blood pressure \<90/50 mmHg, recent history of stroke or myocardial infarction and known hereditary degenerative retinal disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa);
* contraindications to CMR.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No