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A review of multiple clinical trials presented at the ACC 2007 meeting summarized updates on various interventions for heart failure and stable coronary disease.
This review provides a summary of key clinical trials presented at the ACC 2007 meeting, highlighting important preliminary data in heart failure and coronary disease management.
Does not alter current practice; leaves open need for updated trials since 2007 ACC data.
This article provides information and a commentary on trials relevant to the pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of heart failure, presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in March 2007. Unpublished reports should be considered as preliminary data, as analyses may change in the final publication. The ALPHA study suggested that patients with heart failure (HF) due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy who have a negative T-wave alternans test have a good prognosis and are unlikely to benefit from ICD therapy. EVEREST provides some evidence of short-term symptom benefit of tolvaptan in patients with acute decompensated HF but no clinically important long-term benefit. FUSION II failed to show a benefit of nesiritide in patients with chronic decompensated HF. Reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients improved diastolic dysfunction in VALIDD. Eplerenone did not improve left ventricular remodelling in mild to moderate chronic HF. Selecting HF patients for revascularisation using FDG-PET imaging did not significantly improve outcome. Crataegus extract added to standard HF therapy did not reduce morbidity or mortality in SPICE. The COURAGE study, conducted in patients without HF or major cardiac dysfunction, showed that PCI did not reduce cardiac morbidity or mortality and can be safely deferred in patients with stable coronary disease on optimal medical therapy. The COACH study failed to show that HF nurse-intervention could reduce hospitalisations but did show trends to lower mortality, especially amongst patients with reduced ejection fraction; however, the smaller REMADHE study suggested striking benefits on morbidity and mortality. A large study of BNP provided additional information on its ability to distinguish cardiac and pulmonary breathlessness. The importance of dietary intervention in post-MI patients was highlighted by the findings of THIS-diet study.
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Cleland et al. (2007) conducted a review in Heart failure and coronary disease. A review of multiple clinical trials presented at the ACC 2007 meeting summarized updates on various interventions for heart failure and stable coronary disease.
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