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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00593710
Date of registration: 03/01/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of British Columbia
Public title: Losartan Versus Atenolol for the Treatment of Marfan Syndrome
Scientific title: A Randomized Double-blind Study Assessing the Effects of Losartan Versus Atenolol on Pulse Wave Velocity and the Biophysical Properties of the Aorta in Patients With Marfan Syndrome
Date of first enrolment: January 2008
Target sample size: 17
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00593710
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     James E. Potts, MD
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Affiliation:  University of British Columbia
Name:     Cornelius van Breemen, MD
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Affiliation:  University of British Columbia
Name:     George Sandor, MD, FRCPC
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Affiliation:  University of British Columbia
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects must conform to the diagnostic criteria for MFS;

2. Subjects must be between 12 and 25 years;

3. Subjects must have technically suitable echocardiographic windows to obtain the
images needed to calculate the biophysical properties listed as outcome measures;

4. Subjects must provide informed consent and/or assent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with significant aortic or mitral valve regurgitation;

2. Patients with a medical condition that would preclude them from taking either of the
study medications or be taken off either medication for a brief period of time;

3. Female patients who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breast-feeding.



Age minimum: 12 Years
Age maximum: 25 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Marfan Syndrome
Intervention(s)
Drug: Atenolol
Drug: Losartan
Primary Outcome(s)
Pulse Wave Velocity [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Brachial artery reactivity [Time Frame: 12 months]
Biophysical properties of the aorta [Time Frame: 12 months]
Aortic root dimension and area [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary ID(s)
H07-01816
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Ethics review
Results
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