Does atorvastatin have an acute and prolonged inhibitory effect on ischemia-reperfusion injury in humans in-vivo?
- Conditions
- ischemia reperfusion-injurymyocardial infarction10011082
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON32029
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 18
- Male
- Age 18-50 years
- Informed consent
- History of any cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension (in supine position: systole > 140 mmHg, diastole > 90 mmHg)
- Diabetes mellitus (fasting glucose > 7.0 mmol/L or random glucose > 11.0 mmol/L)
- Hyperlipidaemia (fasting total cholesterol > 5.0 mmol/l or random total cholesterol >6.5mmol/l)
-Alanine-Amino-Transferase (ALAT) >90 U/L (more than twice the upper level of the normal range)
-Creatinine Kinase (CK) >440 U/L (more than twice the upper level of the normal range)
-Glomerular filtration rate <60ml/min/1.72m2 (assessed using MDRD calculation using gender, age and serum creatinine level)
-Overt clinical signs of hypothyreoidy
-Concomitant chronic use of medication
-Administration of radioactivity for research purposes during the last 5 years
-Participation to any drug-investigation during the previous 60 days as checked with VIP check according to CRCN standard procedures
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Annexin A 5 targeting in the non-dominant thenar muscle after ischemic<br /><br>exercise, as a indicator for ischemia reperfusion injury.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>workload during ischemic exercise, effect of 3-day treatment with atorvastatin<br /><br>80mg daily on serum lipid levels</p><br>