A Phase 2 interventional study of Levosimendan 2.5 milligram/milliliter Injectable Solutiondose Inhaled and Levosimendan 2.5 milligram/milliliter Injectable Solutiondose Intravenous in Left Ventricular Dysfunction, sponsored by Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel. Recruiting at 1 site in Belgium. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-20.
Sponsored by Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel · Phase 2, Interventional, and Basic science
Determination of biological availability, time-to-peak and elimination half-life of inhaled levosimendan by administration of an inhaled- and intravenous dose of levosimendan.
260 studies on the registry are indexed under Ventricular Dysfunction, Left; 57 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 6 is below the median of 100 across 151 interventional studies indexed under Ventricular Dysfunction, Left.
Browse Ventricular Dysfunction, Left studies →Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel is the lead sponsor of 375 studies on the registry; 107 are open to participants now.
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The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
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COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Levosimendan 12µg/kg inhalation over 10 minutes, once
Drug: Levosimendan 2.5 milligram/milliliter Injectable Solutiondose Inhaled
Levosimendan 12µg/kg intravenous over 10 minutes, once
Drug: Levosimendan 2.5 milligram/milliliter Injectable Solutiondose Intravenous
Each patient will receive 12µg/kg of levosimendan by inhalation over 10 min. During 10h following inhaled dose, plasma concentrations will be measured.
Each patient will receive 12µg/kg of levosimendan by intravenous (IV) administration over 10 min and at the same timepoints plasma samples will be measured
Bioavailability of inhaled levosimendan
Assessment of bioavailability of inhaled levosimendan in spontaneous breathing patients,
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Time-to-peak of inhaled levosimendan
Assessment of time-to-peak plasma concentration of inhaled levosimendan in spontaneous breathing patients
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Elimination half-life of inhaled levosimenan
Assessment of elimination half-life of inhaled levosimendan in spontaneous breathing patients
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on MAP
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on invasively-measured hemodynamic parameter mean arterial blood pressure (MAP)
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on TVR
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on invasively-measured hemodynamic parameter total vascular resistance (TVR)
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on CO
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on invasively-measured hemodynamic parameter Cardiac Output (CO)
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on LVOT VTI
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on echocardiography-derived parameter left -ventricular-outflow-tract (LVOT) velocity-time-integral (VTI) as marker for cardiac output
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on FAC of the right vetricle
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on echocardiography-derived parameter Fractional-Area-Change (FAC) of the right ventricle as marker of right ventricular function
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on S'
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on echocardiography-derived parameter S' wave velocity as marker of right ventricular function
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
Effect of inhaled levosimendan on SPAP
Assessment of effect of inhaled levosimendan on echocardiography-derived parameter (SPAP) systolic pulmonary artery pressure
Time frame: Baseline, plasma samples at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1hour 30 minutes, 2 hours , 3 hours , 6 hours, 10 hours after end of infusion/inhalation
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Started Feb 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Nov 2024, 9 months after the start.
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