REVEAL: Reduction of Infarct Expansion and Ventricular Remodeling With Erythropoietin After Large Myocardial Infarction

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether erythropoietin can help limit the damage to the heart in patients with acute heart attacks.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• Treatments: Epoetin Alfa

Criteria

• INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Age greater than 21 years

Acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

Referral for primary or rescue angioplasty

Revascularization procedure within 8 hours from the onset of ischemic symptoms

TIMI (Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction) flow grade 0 or 1 in the culprit coronary artery at the beginning of coronary angiography

Successful revascularization of infarct-related artery

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Clinical indication for erythropoietin

STEMI (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) due to occlusion of a branch vessel

Any history of prior MI, PCI (Percutaneous coronary intervention), CABG (Coronary artery bypass graft), cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, or CHF (congestive heart failure)

Hypersensitivity to human albumin, mammalian cell-derived products, or erythropoietin

Hematocrit greater than 42% in men or greater than 40% in women at the time of study drug administration

Uncontrolled hypertension at the time of study drug administration

Cardiogenic shock

Need for coronary surgical revascularization as determined at the time of the index coronary catheterization

History of hypercoagulable disorder, thromboembolic event, or venous thrombosis

History of stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack)

History of seizures

Contraindication to MRI

Pregnancy or nursing mother