Study for Symptomatic Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Gender PreferenceNone
Age Group18 - 99 years
Research Start DateApril 1, 2006
Research End DateSeptember 1, 2014
Principal InvestigatorSif Hansdottir, MD
Description

COMPASS 2: Effects of Combination of Bosentan and Sildenafil Versus Sildenafil Monotherapy on Morbidity and Mortality in Symptomatic Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - A Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Parallel Group, Prospective, Event Driven Phase IV Study

This study will investigate the effects of the combination of bosentan and sildenafil. Patients with symptomatic PAH treated with a stable dose of sildenafil equal to or greater tha 20 mg t.i.d. for at least 12 weeks will be randomized to placebo or bosentan 125 mg b.i.d. All randomized patients will be treated with study drug until the predefined target number of morbidity/mortality events is reached.

 

Please refer to www.clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT00303459 for more information

Contact Info

Pulmonary Hypertension Program

Page Scovel, RN

phone:  319-356-1028

Fax:  319-356-7087

email:  page-scovel@uiowa.edu

Keywordsspan itemProp='description'>Heart ; High blood pressure in lungs ; PAH ; PH ; Pulmonary arterial hypertension ; Pulmonary diseases ; Pulmonary hypertension ;