Status:

COMPLETED

Ambrisentan in Patients With Porto-pulmonary Hypertension A Multicenter Open Label Trial

Lead Sponsor:

Tufts Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

Gilead Sciences

Conditions:

Portopulmonary Hypertension

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

This is an Open Label, Multicenter, pilot clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of an oral selective Endothelin Receptor Antagonist (ambrisentan) in patients with portopulmonary hypertensio...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Subjects need to fulfill all of the following 4 criteria:
  • Evidence of portal hypertension (by hemodynamic measurement, or by Doppler flow of portal circulation, or by clinical evidence of portal hypertension such as esophageal or gastric varices, as evidenced by prior upper endoscopy).
  • Evidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension by right heart catheterization (all three criteria need to be present) Right heart catheterization may have been performed up to 30 days prior to screening
  • Mean PAP (pulmonary artery pressure) \>25 mm Hg, and
  • PVR (pulmonary vascular resistance) \>240 dynes/s/cm5, and
  • TPG (transpulmonary gradient = meanPAP -PAWP) \>12 mm Hg
  • Baseline AST, ALT \< 5 times the upper limit of normal, total Bili \< 3.0 mg/dl, and mild liver impairment with Child -Pugh class A or B
  • Ages 18 years and above

Exclusion

  • Presence of any other etiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension (HIV, connective tissue disease, sickle cell, left heart failure, chronic thromboembolic PH, etc)
  • Treatment with prostacyclins, other ERAs, or PDE5 inhibitors within 30 days of enrollment.
  • Moribund state or anticipated death within 1 month.
  • AST or ALT ≥ 5 times upper limit of normal
  • Total bilirubin ≥ 3.0 mg/dl
  • Significant lung disease (obstructive lung disease with FEV1 \< 1L, or FEV1/FVC \<50%; or restrictive lung disease with Total Lung Capacity \< 60% predicted). PFTs may have been performed up to 6 months prior to enrollment.
  • Pregnancy
  • Age \<18 years
  • Child -Pugh class C

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2010

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 1 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01224210

Start Date

March 1 2010

End Date

March 1 2020

Last Update

January 12 2021

Active Locations (6)

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UCSD Medical Center

La Jolla, California, United States, 92093

2

Mayo Clinic Florida

Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224

3

Tufts Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111

4

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599