Carvedilol Post-intervention Long-term Administration in Large-scale Trial (CAPITAL-RCT)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01155635 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : July 2, 2010
Last Update Posted : June 27, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Myocardial Infarction | Drug: Carvedilol Drug: No Carvedilol | Phase 4 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 801 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Carvedilol Post-intervention Long-term Administration in Large-scale Randomized Controlled Trial |
Study Start Date : | July 2010 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | June 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | March 2017 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: Beta-blocker
Use of Carvedilol with any dose
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Drug: Carvedilol
Use of Carvedilol with any dose |
Active Comparator: Non Beta-blocker
No use of Carvedilol
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Drug: No Carvedilol
No use of Carvedilol |
- All cause mortality [ Time Frame: 6-year ]Death from any reason
- Composite of death, myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, heart failure hospitalization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Cardiac death [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Sudden cardiac death [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Cardiovascular death [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Myocardial infarction [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Acute coronary syndrome [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Heart failure hospitalization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Stent thrombosis [ Time Frame: 6-year ]Stent thrombosis defined by Academic Research Consortium
- Target-vessel revascularization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Clinically-driven target-lesion revascularization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Any coronary revascularization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Any clinically-driven coronary revascularization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Coronary artery bypass grafting [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Stroke [ Time Frame: 6-year ]Any ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes excluding transient ischemic attacks
- Worsening of angina due to coronary spasm [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Bleeding complications [ Time Frame: 6-year ]Bleeding complications defined by GUSTO and TIMI definitions
- Composite of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, acute coronary syndrome, heart failure hospitalization, any coronary revascularization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, heart failure hospitalization [ Time Frame: 6-year ]
- Composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke [ Time Frame: 6-year ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Older Adult |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with STEMI after primary PCI
- Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction more than or equal to 40%
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction less than 40%
- Patients with contraindication for beta-blocker
- Patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Patients with end-stage malignancy

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01155635
Japan | |
Division of Cardiology, Kyoto University Hospital | |
Kyoto, Japan, 606-8507 |
Principal Investigator: | Takeshi Kimura, MD | Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine |
Responsible Party: | Takeshi Morimoto, Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01155635 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
C-417 |
First Posted: | July 2, 2010 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 27, 2017 |
Last Verified: | June 2017 |
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