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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01548950
Date of registration: 05/03/2012
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
Public title: Drug Therapy and Surgery in Congenital Heart Disease With Pulmonary Hypertension
Scientific title: Combined Clinical and Surgical Approaches to Congenital Heart Disease Associated With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH-CHD)
Date of first enrolment: September 2011
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01548950
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Brazil
Contacts
Name:     Antonio Augusto Lopes, M.D.
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Affiliation:  Instituto do Coração (InCor) - HCFMUSP - São Paulo - Brazil
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Potentially operable patients with congenital cardiac septal defects (bi-ventricular
physiology) and PAH, must have at least three of the following severity criteria: age
> 18 months; absence of congestive heart failure (pulmonary congestion); Down
syndrome; bidirectional shunting across the septal defect; periods of systemic
(peripheral) oxygen saturation < 90%.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with complex cardiac anomalies for whom there are no possibilities of
complete repair. Patients with uni-ventricular physiology.



Age minimum: 2 Months
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Congenital Heart Disease
Intervention(s)
Drug: Sildenafil singly or in association with Bosentan
Primary Outcome(s)
Immediate postoperative right cardiac failure and mortality, and prevalence of residual PAH six months after surgery. [Time Frame: Six months following surgery]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Pulmonary vascular resistance six months after surgical repair of congenital cardiac shunts with PAH [Time Frame: Six months following surgery]
Secondary ID(s)
CAPPesq 0502/11
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Instituto do Coracao
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Ethics review
Results
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