Hypoventilation and High Altitude Chronic Polycythemia: Acetazolamide as a Possible Treatment
试验速览
- 阶段
- 4 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 55
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Hemoglobin concentration
研究概览
简要总结
The prevalence of High Altitude Polycythemia (or Chronic Mountain Sickness) is between 8 and 15% in the high altitude regions of South America. There is no pharmacological treatment available. After a first preliminary study in 2003 demonstrating the beneficial effects of acetazolamide in reducing hematocrit in these patients, after 3 weeks of treatment, we want to confirm this effect and implement a treatment protocol of 3 month-duration.
详细描述
Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is characterized by an excessive number of red cells in the blood of persons living permanently above the altitude of 2,500m. The symptoms of this very incapacitating disease are : headaches, chronic asthenia, digestive troubles, sleep disturbances. The hemoglobin concentration is higher than 21 g/dl of blood. In addition, patients show a pulmonary hypertension of variable degree, as well as a systemic hypertension.
This disease affects essentially males, but women are also concerned after menopause. The evolution of the disease is always very dramatic, towards a cardiac failure and cerebral vascular stroke. The prevalence is between 8% and 15% on the Andean Altiplano . No pharmacological treatment is available.
A preliminary study was performed (Richalet et al. AJRCCM, 2005) that demonstrated the efficiency of acetazolamide (a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor) in reducing the hematocrit and the erythropoetin concentration,and increasing nocturnal oxygen saturation in patients suffering from CMS, after 3 weeks of treatment.
We plan to perform a double-blinded placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficiency of a 3-month treatment with daily 250 mg acetazolamide to reduce the hematocrit and hemoglobin concentrations and ameliorate the clinical symptoms of 55 patients suffering from CMS and living at high altitude (Cerro de Pasco, Peru).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •patients with Chronic mountain sickness and Hb > 21g/dl
排除标准
- •patients smokers
- •patients with respiratory or cardiovascular or renal disease
研究组 & 干预措施
acetazolamide
acetazolamide 250mg /day oral administration, for 6 months
干预措施: acetazolamide (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Hemoglobin concentration
时间窗: monthly
Hematocrit
时间窗: monthly
次要结局
- Systolic pulmonary arterial pressure(before and after 3 months of treatment)
- Pulmonary vascular resistance(before and after 3 months of treatment)
- Arterial oxygen saturation at rest(monthly)
- Clinical score of Chronic Mountain Sickness(monthly)
- Quality of lofe score(monthly)