A Study to Evaluate the Safety of Apixaban in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Japanese Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2010-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the bleeding safety (the composite endpoint of major and clinically relevant non-major bleeding) of 2 doses of apixaban (2.5 mg BID and 5.0 mg BID) or placebo in combination with standard therapy (aspirin and /or additional antiplatelet therapy) over a 24 week treatment period in selected subjects with recent (≤7 days) acute coronary syndrome.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Pfizer
• Collaborator: Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Treatments: Apixaban

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Recent (≤ 7 days) ACS

• Clinically stable, and receiving standard treatment (patients must be treated with aspirin ≤ 100 mg/day, with or without clopidogrel 75 mg/day or ticlopidine 200 mg/day) based on the physician's judgment)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Scheduled/planned cardiac catheterization, PCI, CABG or other invasive procedure planned in the 24 weeks (within treatment period) following randomization

• Persistent severe hypertension, defined as systolic blood pressure of ≥180 mm Hg or diastolic pressure of ≥110 mm Hg

• Active bleeding or at high risk for bleeding (e.g., cirrhosis of the liver, any history of intracranial hemorrhage).