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Vasopressin and Inhaled Prostacyclin in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension

NCT01370096 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2018-12-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To diagnose pulmonary hypertension, children have a cardiac catheterization to check the blood pressure in their lungs. Children with pulmonary hypertension have high blood pressure in their lungs. The right ventricle of the heart has to do more work to pump against this higher pressure. The investigators do not know the best medicine(s) to help children with pulmonary hypertension when their right ventricles fail. The purpose of the study is to look at the effects of two different medicines on the blood pressure in the lungs of a child with pulmonary hypertension. The investigators hope to then be able to choose the best medicine for children with pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure.

The first medicine is called vasopressin. It is a hormone that your body makes on its own. The investigators will be giving it through an intravenous infusion. The investigators think that vasopressin works differently in different parts of your body. The investigators are looking to see the different effects that vasopressin has in the lungs compared to the rest of the body.

The second medicine is called prostacyclin and is something that your body also makes by itself. Prostacyclin, given via an intravenous infusion, is a treatment for pulmonary hypertension as it decreases pressure in the blood vessels. In the catheterization laboratory, patients breathe in this medicine to measure specific changes in the blood pressure in their lungs.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Hypertension

Interventions

DRUG

Vasopressin infusion

An intravenous infusion of vasopressin will be started at an initial rate of 0.0002U/Kg/min via the side arm of the central venous sheath. The infusion will be titrated up by 0.0001U/kg/min every minute until there has been a 20% increase in invasive mean arterial blood pressure (maximum infusion 0.002U/kg/min) and then the infusion may be titrated to maintain this blood pressure.

DRUG

Vasopressin infusion and epoprostenol inhalation

An intravenous infusion of vasopressin will be started at an initial rate of 0.0002U/Kg/min via the side arm of the central venous sheath. The infusion will be titrated up by 0.0001U/kg/min every minute until there has been a 20% increase in invasive mean arterial blood pressure (maximum infusion 0.002U/kg/min) and then the infusion may be titrated to maintain this blood pressure. If the target 20% increase in SBP is not achieved with vasopressin titration, the infusion will remain at 0.002U/kg/min. After a period of ten minutes of drug exposure to allow for patient equilibration, subjects will receive nebulized prostacyclin at a dose of 50ng/kg/min for 15 minutes via Aeroneb into the endotracheal tube.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-29
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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