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Last refreshed on: 25 January 2021
Main ID:  NCT02169752
Date of registration: 06/05/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: National Jewish Health
Public title: Ambrisentan for the Improvement in Right Ventricular Strain in Scleroderma Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension AMERICA-PAH
Scientific title: Ambrisentan for the Improvement in Right Ventricular Strain in Scleroderma Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Date of first enrolment: September 2012
Target sample size: 7
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02169752
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Brett Fenster, MD
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Affiliation:  National Jewish Health
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age >18 years, < 80 years

- Systemic sclerosis with any of the following features:

1. Duration of Raynaud's phenomena >8 years

2. Anticentromere antibody positivity

3. isolated nucleolar-pattern ANA positivity

4. Extensive telangiectasias

5. DLCO < 60% in the absence of extensive ILD

6. FVC%/DLCO% >1.6

7. Unexplained dyspnea

- Right heart catheterization-proven pre PAH (mean PAP 20-25 mmHg and pulmonary
capillary wedge pressure <15 mmHg)

- Systolic blood pressure >100 mmHg

- Reliable contraception for women of childbearing age

- Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- < 18 years or > 80 years

- Left ventricular ejection fraction < 55%

- Systolic or diastolic left ventricular congestive heart failure

- Liver disease (abnormal AST/ALT, chronic hepatitis, or cirrhosis)

- Extensive ILD or FVC< 60%

- Pregnant

- Breast-feeding women

- Cyclosporine use



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pre-Pulmonary Atrial Hypertension
Intervention(s)
Drug: Ambrisentan
Primary Outcome(s)
Improvement in right ventricular (RV) myocardio strain > 2% [Time Frame: 1, 3 and 6 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
HS-2716
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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