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Last refreshed on: 26 April 2021
Main ID:  NCT00742014
Date of registration: 25/08/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Public title: The Assessment of Right Ventricular Contractility in Response to Sildenafil
Scientific title: The Assessment of Right Ventricular Contractility in Response to Sildenafil in Pediatric Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Date of first enrolment: August 2008
Target sample size: 10
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00742014
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     Andrew Redington, MD
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Affiliation:  The Hospital for Sick Children
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Significant pulmonary arterial hypertension (mean pulmonary artery pressure > 25 mm
Hg)

- Patients aged 4-18 years

- Routine cardiac catheterization clinically indicated for deciding therapeutic
treatment

- Informed assent/consent from patient/parent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Suprasystemic pulmonary artery pressures

- Evidence of right heart failure

- History of ventricular arrhythmia

- Known vascular access arrhythmia

- Contraindication to Sildenafil

- Concurrent inotropic / PDE administration

- Other medical, psychological or social circumstances which complicate a regular
participation in the study, and/or increase the risk for the patients themselves

- No consent/assent

- Pregnancy or unwillingness to comply with contraceptive advice



Age minimum: 1 Year
Age maximum: 18 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Hypertension
Intervention(s)
Drug: Sildenafil
Primary Outcome(s)
Increase (% change) in endsystolic elastance of the right ventricle from baseline (in comparison to change in endsystolic elastance after inhaled NO) [Time Frame: 30 mins after Sildenafil adminsitration]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
1000012265
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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