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Last refreshed on: 8 January 2018
Main ID:  NCT00384657
Date of registration: 05/10/2006
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Anemia Working Group Romania
Public title: Intravenous Iron in Patients With Severe Chronic Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease
Scientific title: The Effects of Intravenous Iron Therapy for Anemia Correction in Patients With Severe Chronic Heart Failure and Concomitant Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease
Date of first enrolment: January 2008
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Withdrawn
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00384657
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Romania
Contacts
Name:     Tiberiu Nanea, Professor
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Affiliation:  "Caritas" Teaching Hospital, Bucharest
Name:     Gabriel Mircescu, Professor
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Affiliation:  Dr Carol Davila Teaching Hospital of Nephrology
Name:     Liliana Garneata, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Dr Carol Davila Teaching Hospital of Nephrology Bucharest
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- persistent severe CHF: functional class NYHA III (marked limitation of physical
activity - comfortable at rest, but less than ordinary activity results in shortness
of breath and/or fatigue16); left ventricular ejection fraction (echocardiography)
less than 40%; functional and systolic dysfunction criteria must be stable at two
different examinations one month apart;

- stable stage 3 chronic kidney disease: estimated GFR between 30-59mL/min/1.73m2 (mean
value of three measurements within the last 8 weeks, separated from each other by at
least one week); stable renal function (at least three different measurements within
the past 8 weeks, separated from each other by at least one week; the difference
between the highest and the lowest value should be less than 5mL/min/1.73m2)

- mild to moderate anemia: hemoglobin levels < 12g/dL (mean value of three measurements
within the last 8 weeks, separated from each other by at least one week) and stable
(at least three measurements within the last 8 weeks; the difference between the
highest and the lowest value should be less than 1.5g/dL);

- iron deficiency: absolute (serum ferritin < 100ng/mL) or functional (serum ferritin
100-300ng/mL and transferrin saturation < 20%)

Exclusion Criteria:

- evidence of active gastrointestinal or genital tract bleeding

- folate or vitamin B12 deficiency

- hypothyroidism

- hemolytic anemia

- any primary kidney diseases (glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, cystic
diseases)

- systemic diseases with renal involvement (lupus erythematosus, vasculitis,
amyloidosis)

- renal artery stenosis (>70% lumen reduction)

- diabetic nephropathy

- severe malnutrition (SGA score C or lower)

- active liver diseases

- infectious conditions

- malignancies

- C-reactive protein > 12 mg/L

- severe anemia (< 8.5g/dL)

- blood transfusions in the preceding two months

- iron therapy in the preceding three months

- concomitant erythropoietin therapy

- severe arterial hypertension (systolic BP >190 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP >115 mm Hg)

- recent history (less than 3 months) of acute coronary syndrome

- recent (less than 1 month) PCI

- recent (less than 1 month) CABG surgery

- active myocarditis

- active endocarditis

- more than mild valvar stenosis

- more than moderate valvar (mitral or aortic) regurgitation

- uncontrolled haemodynamically relevant atrial fibrillation/flutter

- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

- acute and/or chronic pericarditis

- cor pulmonale

- participation in another study



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Heart Failure
Anemia
Intervention(s)
Drug: iron sucrose
Primary Outcome(s)
percentage of patients with increased ejection fraction [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
radial myocardial velocities [Time Frame: 12 months]
hospital admissions [Time Frame: 12 months]
death of the patient (all causes deaths, cardiac deaths) [Time Frame: 12 months]
left ventricular mass index [Time Frame: 12 months]
serum ferritin level [Time Frame: 12 months]
right ventricular function [Time Frame: 12 months]
slope of GFR change [Time Frame: 12 months]
major cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, acute pulmonary edema, stroke) [Time Frame: 12 months]
the need for blood transfusions during the study period [Time Frame: 12 months]
"death" of the kidney (initiation of renal replacement therapy) [Time Frame: 12 months]
global diastolic function [Time Frame: 12 months]
transferrin saturation [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary ID(s)
AWG_06_01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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