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Trial reportRespiratory medicine2022

Oral treprostinil improves pulmonary vascular compliance in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Akram Khan, R James White, Gisela Meyer, Tomas R Pulido Zamudio, Carlos Jerjes-Sanchez, Dana Johnson, Rob Grover, Meredith Broderick, Aliou Ousmanou, Louis Holdstock and 1 more

Open access · hybridFull text readClinical Trial, Phase IIIControlled Clinical Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Respiratory medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Can Pulmonary Arterial Compliance Be a Prognostic Marker for Pulmonary Hypertension?American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023
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  6. Review
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  10. Hemodynamic indices in pulmonary hypertension: a narrative review.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Akram KhanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA. Electronic address: khana@ohsu.edu.
R James WhiteDivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and the Mary M. Parkes Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Gisela MeyerComplexo Hospitalar Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Tomas R Pulido ZamudioCardiopulmonary Department, Ignacio Chávez National Heart Institute, Mexico City, Mexico.
Carlos Jerjes-SanchezTecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Unidad De Investigación Clinica en Medicina, Monterrey, Mexico.
Dana JohnsonUnited Therapeutics, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Rob GroverUnited Therapeutics, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Meredith BroderickUnited Therapeutics, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Aliou OusmanouUnited Therapeutics, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Louis HoldstockUnited Therapeutics, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Evangelos MichelakisDepartment of Medicine, Alberta Cardiovascular and Stroke Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Triangle · USInstituto Nacional de Cardiología · MXOregon Health & Science University · USSanta Casa Hospital · BRUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Monterrey · MXUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute - The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)UL1TR002369 · NCATS · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI Cynthia D Morris, Christopher G. Slatore · 2017 to 2026
$78.4M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral treprostinil has been shown to improve exercise capacity and delay disease progression in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but its effects on hemodynamics are not well-characterized. The FREEDOM-EV trial was a Phase III, international, placebo-controlled, double-blind, event-driven study in 690 participants with PAH who were taking a single oral PAH therapy. FREEDOM-EV demonstrated a significantly reduced risk for clinical worsening with oral treprostinil taken three times daily and did not uncover new safety signals in PAH patients. Sixty-one participants in the FREEDOM-EV trial volunteered for a hemodynamics sub-study. Pulmonary artery compliance (PAC), a ratio of stroke volume to pulmonary pulse pressure, significantly increased from Baseline to Week 24 in the oral treprostinil group compared with the placebo group (geometric mean 26.4% active vs. -6.0% placebo; ANCOVA p=0.007). There was a significant increase in cardiac output in the oral treprostinil group compared to the placebo group (geometric mean 11.3% active vs. -6.4% placebo; ANCOVA p=0.005) and a corresponding significant reduction in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) (geometric mean -21.5 active vs. -1.8% placebo; ANCOVA p=0.02) from Baseline to Week 24. These data suggest that increased compliance contributes to the physiological mechanism by which oral treprostinil improves exercise capacity and delays clinical worsening for patients with PAH.

Indexed as

Pulmonary Arterial HypertensionAntihypertensive AgentsEpoprostenolHumansTreatment OutcomeVascular ResistanceAntihypertensive AgentsEpoprostenoltreprostinilCardiac outputFREEDOM-EVHemodynamicsPVRRight-heart catherization

Identifiers

PMID35134631
PMCPMC10024312
OpenAlexW4206118763

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