Withdrawal of Treatment for Heart Failure Patients With Recovery From Tachycardia-induced Cardiomyopathy

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Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

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NCT06128980

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2026. február 23.

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New onset heart failure (HF) is observed in up to 25% of patients with incident atrial fibrillation or flutter (AF). Current guidelines suggest that both conditions (AF \& HF) be addressed with guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) for HF and rate or rhythm control of AF. Hence, patients with both conditions are subjected to extensive polypharmacy with possible prognostic benefits, but also possible side effects, such as decreased renal function, dizziness, tiredness and hypotension, as well as the financial burden on both the individual patients and society, in addition to the stigma of having a HF diagnosis.A teljes eredeti leírásKevesebb

Withdrawal of Pharmacological Treatment for Heart Failure Patients With Recovery From Tachycardia-induced Cardiomyopathy - WEAN-HF

New onset heart failure (HF) is observed in up to 25% of patients with incident atrial fibrillation or flutter (AF). Current guidelines suggest that both conditions (AF \& HF) be addressed with guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) for HF and rate or rhythm control of AF. Hence, patients with both conditions are subjected to extensive polypharmacy with possible prognostic benefits, but also possible side effects, such as decreased renal function, dizziness, tiredness and hypotension, as well as the financial burden on both the individual patients and society, in addition to the stigma of having a HF diagnosis.

Guidelines do not inform how to manage long-term patients with HF, who following control of the incident tachycardia (e.g. AF), show full recovery from their HF condition.

This investigator-initiated, open-label, randomized, non-inferiority trial will test whether incremental weaning of GDMT in patients following full cardiac recovery and AF control is non-inferior compared to continuous GDMT with respect to the primary endpoint of freedom from heart failure deterioration. Furthermore, this study seeks to extensively phenotype these patients (genetic testing, advanced imaging, biomarkers etc.) in order to establish whether certain phenotypes are at lesser or greater risk of deterioration once remission is established. This novel approach of a personalized treatment regimen depending on e.g. genetic profiling could lead to an aggressive treatment in patients at high risk of deterioration and conversely spare patients with a negligible risk, a life-long intensive treatment regimen.

All HF clinics located in Zealand, Denmark, with a catchment area of >2 million citizens, have agreed to participate in the WEAN-HF trial. A total of 348 patients will be randomized. Patients are followed up the 1st year after randomization with clinical examination, biomarkers and echocardiography, and are subsequently followed via Danish nationwide registries for 10 years.

Bevonási feltételek: Patients with new onset heart failure (ambulatory or hospital) with reduced ejection fraction (LVEF≤40% assessed by echocardiography) and NYHA ≥2 and atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter with ventricular rate ≥110 bpm (ECG monitoring, hospital telemetry or Holter monitoring) that following GDMT - while AF is terminated (e.g. ablation or conversion) or controlled (HR<110 on resting ECG) - experience LVEF remission (LVEF ≥50%), normalization of indexed LV volume, and normal ECG (no bundle branch block, ST segment deviations or T-wave inversion) and NT-proBNP <250 pg/ml.

Kizáró feltételek: Former ablation procedures and inability to tolerate antiarrhythmic drugs; Previously genotyped positive for genes known to cause cardiomyopathy; Probable medication-, alcohol- or illicit drug use induced AF and/or HF; Congenital heart disease (congenital defects with no hemodyamic effects are not excluded); Moderate/severe valvular disease; Suspicion of or known cardiac amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, or other storage/inflammatory disease; More than 10% PVCs or documented sustained ventricular arrhythmias; History of persistent or permanent AF with ventricular rates >110 before incident HF despite best standard of care; Acute myocardial infarction at index; Systolic blood pressure >160 mmHg (at multiple measurements) at index or history of uncontrollable hypertension; Aborted sudden cardiac death; eGFR < 30 ml/min/1.73 m2; 18 years or older and able to consent; Pregnancy; Probable hypertrophic, restrictive or non-compaction cardiomyopathy; Myocarditis; Cardiogenic shock at index; Pacing-induced cardiomyopathy; 1.st degree relative with DCM.

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