Pathogenesis of Acute Stress Induced (Tako-tsubo) Cardiomyopathy: Energy Shut-Down or Intense Inflammation?

NCT ID: NCT02897739

Last Updated: 2019-05-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 77 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2019-03-31

Brief Summary

Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy (TTC), also known as "Broken Heart Syndrome", is a disorder of the heart that occurs most commonly in women (although it occasionally occurs in men) and is usually related to a stressful event. Symptoms are often similar to a heart attack, and include chest pain and shortness of breath. Although Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy is not a new medical condition, it has not been widely recognised until the last decade. Currently the investigators don't have an exact understanding of how or why the heart is affected in this way, and so the investigators are conducting a study to help understand what causes Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy.

Detailed Description

The investigators aim to study the reciprocal modulation of fatty acids and glucose metabolism in the Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy physiology, in both humans and an animal model, and to investigate which metabolic pathway is preferentially adopted by acute Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy myocytes during this severe functional shut down with largely preserved variability. The human model will be used to determine the preferential stimulated uptake of glucose/fatty acids under optimal metabolic conditions for each (hyperinsulineamic euglycemic clamp for 18F-Fludeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and fasting for 14Fluorine-18Fluoro-6-Thia-Heptadecanoic Acid (18F-FTHA cardiac Positron Emission Tomography)). In the rat model the investigators will examine both the metabolic tracer uptake (using micro Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography) as well as the downstream modulation of the two metabolic pathways (transcriptional regulators, mitochondrial respiration, expression of the uncoupling proteins, levels of Adenosine Triphosphate generation and reactive oxygen species production).

The investigators aim to test the hypothesis that inflammation plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of this condition by further exploring: 1) In the rat model define time course, extent and subtypes of cellular infiltrate, 2) In the rat model of Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy, demonstrate the presence of inflammatory macrophages using in-vivo Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide-cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and whether this relates to numbers and types of macrophages present as determined by immunohistochemical analysis, 3) In clinical patients, define the time course of specific peripheral blood monocyte subsets and the serum levels of inflammatory cytokines versus matched controls and 4) In clinical patients, establish the compartmentalisation of tissue macrophages in the left ventricle its time course resolution using Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance.

The investigators will assess the psycho-emotional factors involved in Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy given that in the majority of cases intense emotional trauma is immediately preceding onset.

Conditions

Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

TTC Patients

Patients diagnosed with Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy.

Magnetic resonance imaging

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Cardiac MRI and short MRI following USPIO infusion

Acute Inflammatory Activation study

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

Blood sampling for exploration of type and level of inflammatory response

PET CT

Intervention Type: RADIATION

PET study for metabolic pathway study

Psychological assessment

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Assessment by a psychologist

Health Volunteers

Participants who have normal hearts.

Magnetic resonance imaging

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Cardiac MRI and short MRI following USPIO infusion

Acute Inflammatory Activation study

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

Blood sampling for exploration of type and level of inflammatory response

PET CT

Intervention Type: RADIATION

PET study for metabolic pathway study

Psychological assessment

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Assessment by a psychologist

Interventions

Magnetic resonance imaging

Cardiac MRI and short MRI following USPIO infusion

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Acute Inflammatory Activation study

Blood sampling for exploration of type and level of inflammatory response

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

PET CT

PET study for metabolic pathway study

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Psychological assessment

Assessment by a psychologist

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients diagnosed with TTC in the past 12 days, able to give consent and who have not lost capacity of consent between the time of diagnosis (usually made at coronary catheterisation, for which they are consented clinically) and time of being approached for inclusion in the study.
• Age and gender matched healthy controls willing to participate and able to give consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Unwillingness to participate
• Patients with contraindications to MR scanning
• Pregnant or breast-feeding women

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

NHS Grampian

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Aberdeen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Dana Dawson, MD, MRCP

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Aberdeen

Locations

Cardiac Research Office

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

Countries

United Kingdom

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Other Identifiers

14/NS/1068

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Identifier Source: org_study_id