Flu Vaccination in Congestive Heart Failure - Full Text View

Sponsored by:	La Fundacion Favaloro para la Investigacion y la Docencia Medica
Information provided by:	La Fundacion Favaloro para la Investigacion y la Docencia Medica
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00664339

Purpose

We evaluated the preventive impact of vaccination on subsequent death events in 117 severe congestive heart patients requiring ventilator support without endotracheal intubations and aggressive medical therapy. They were randomly allocated in a single-blind manner as a unique intramuscular influenza vaccination or as controls.

The first primary outcome evaluated at 6 months follow-up - cardiovascular death - occurred in 3% of the patients in the vaccine group Vs 17% in controls (p=0.022). The composite end point occurred in 33% of the patients in the vaccine group Vs 74% in control group, p = <0.001.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Heart Failure	Biological: Flu Vaccine Other: Conventional medical therapy for heart failure	Phase IV

MedlinePlus related topics: Flu Heart Failure

Drug Information available for: Fluvirin Influenza Vaccines

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind (Subject), Uncontrolled, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Influenza Vaccine Pilot Study in Severe Congestive Heart Failure Patients. The Flu Vaccination Heart Failure (FLUVACS II) Study

Further study details as provided by La Fundacion Favaloro para la Investigacion y la Docencia Medica:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Total Death [ Time Frame: 6 mounths ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Rehospitalization for any cause or infarction [ Time Frame: 6 mounths ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment:	117
Study Start Date:	May 2007
Study Completion Date:	March 2008
Primary Completion Date:	March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Vaccine: Active Comparator Flu Vaccine	Biological: Flu Vaccine Single dose of Flu vaccine by year (1)
Control Conventional treatment therapy for heart failure	Other: Conventional medical therapy for heart failure According with the international guidelines

Detailed Description:

Background: Recent reports detected that one of the barriers that vaccination against influenza infection is that, physicians do not strongly recommend its applications to cardiovascular patients at risk. We evaluated the preventive impact of vaccination against death in severe congestive heart failure hospitalized patients. Methods and Results: A total of 117 severe congestive heart failure patients (New York Heart Association class III and IV) admitted in the first 12 hours who required ventilator support without endotracheal intubations and high doses of loop-diuretics, were included in a prospective, multicenter log, during the winter season. Congestive heart patients received intravenous vasodilators and loop-diuretics plus standard therapies, and then were randomly allocated in a single-blind manner as a unique intramuscular influenza vaccination or as controls. Death, and combined end points (death, and re-hospitalization for any reason) were assessed at 6 months follow-up. The first primary outcome - cardiovascular death - occurred in 3% of the patients in the vaccine group Vs 17% in controls (odds ratio with vaccine as compared with controls: 0.16; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.33 to 0.79; p=0.022). The composite end point occurred in 33% of the patients in the vaccine group Vs 74% in controls, p = <0.001. The need of adding inotropic drugs occurred in 8% of patients receiving vaccination, and in 12.5% in the control group.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	21 Years to 90 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Male or female patient's > 21 years of age with a severe congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association class III or IV) requiring an immediate administration of intravenous vasodilators drugs, oxygen therapy, and no less than 160 mg of intravenous furosemide were eligible for inclusion.
Definite evidence of underlying heart failure was also required as shown by at least two of the following:
- a) Orthopnea on admission
- b) X-ray showing evidences of elevated wedge pressure indicating congestive heart failure
- c) recent prior hospitalization (within the 30 days prior to the index hospitalization) because a congestive heart failure episode
- d) echocardiography data showing a poor left ventricular ejection fraction (0.40 or lower measuring with the biplane Simpson's method
- e) non-invasive ventilation to the maintenance of SaO2 above 90%
- f) wet rales in at least the lower half of the lungs fields
Patients with a final diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure as a consequence of necrotic or chronic ischemic heart disease, or infective origin such as chronic Chagas Disease, chronic valvular heart disease (surgically repaired or not), and idiopathic origin were also included for the present study

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients with a concomitant infective disease were excluded from the study
Patients with evidence of evolving with multi organic failure (hepatic or renal dysfunction requiring dialysis), terminal disease, or any impeding cause of follow-up, including contraindications of vaccination, were excluded from the study
Those with congestive heart failure following unstable coronary artery disease, or prior by-pass surgery, or angioplasty or congestive heart failure complicating myocardial infarction requiring urgent intervention were excluded also
Those individuals who required mechanical ventilation on admission
Patients with prior vaccinations were also excluded
Pregnancy condition was an exclusion criterion
Those patients who were unable or refused to give a written inform consent was also excluded of the present study

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00664339

Sponsors and Collaborators

La Fundacion Favaloro para la Investigacion y la Docencia Medica

Investigators

Study Chair:

ENRIQUE P GURFINKEL, MD PhD

FUNDACION FAVALORO PARA LA DOCENCIA Y LA INVESTIGACION MEDICA

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Fundacion Favaloro para la Docencia y la Investigacion Medica ( ENRIQUE P. GURFINKEL, MD PhD )
Study ID Numbers:	DDI (976) 407
Study First Received:	April 17, 2008
Last Updated:	April 17, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00664339 History of Changes
Health Authority:	Argentina: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica

Keywords provided by La Fundacion Favaloro para la Investigacion y la Docencia Medica:

Heart failure,
infection,
immune system,
atherosclerosis

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Atherosclerosis
Heart Failure
Heart Diseases
Influenza, Human

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Heart Failure
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 07, 2009