P&G azimilide arrythmia trial recruiting 5,900 patients with low LVEF, low heart rate variability.
Executive Summary
P&G AZIMILIDE ARRHYTHMIA TRIAL ENROLLING 5,900 PATIENTS at 600 sites worldwide, John Camm, MD, St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), said at a Procter & Gamble-sponsored symposium on antiarrhythmic drugs Aug. 26 at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Stockholm. The "ALIVE" trial (Azimilide Post-Infarct Survival Evaluation) will study the effect of oral 75 mg and 100 mg azimilide dihydrochloride vs. placebo on recent post-myocardial infarction patients with a left ventricular ejection fractions ranging between 15%-35% and low heart rate variability, Camm stated.