Rhode Island Diastolic Dysfunction - Heart Failure

NCT02353312 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2025-07-03

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Summary

To study the hypothesis that treating patients with underlying diastolic dysfunction with oral Kuvan® (BH4, also known as tetrahydrobiopterin) in addition to current best practices will improve metabolic and echocardiographic diastolic function parameters.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Kuvan

Kuvan® (sapropterin dihydrochloride) will be initiated at 10mg/kg/day with meals for one week. After telephone contact on day 7, assuming no adverse effects are noted, the patient will be instructed to increase their daily dose to 20mg/kg/day with meals for the remainder of the 3 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Wen-Chih Wu, MD, MPH · Providence VA Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-31
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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