Press Release
Research Finds U.S. Cardiogenic Shock Patients Have High Hospital Inpatient Mortality and Long Length of Stay – Adding to Previously Reported Need for New Pharmacologic Innovation
Nov 22, 2021
Cardiogenic shock is a serious condition that occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood and oxygen to the brain, kidneys, and other vital organs. Cardiogenic shock is a medical emergency and needs to be treated immediately.1 There is a lack of satisfactory pharmacological intervention to reverse the conditions as available therapies have unwanted side effects such as risk for arrhythmias, decreasing blood pressure, renal dysfunction and even increases in mortality that limit their usefulness and position them as “rescue medicines” for severe cases.
Additionally,
“We are working to complete our early cardiogenic shock study with istaroxime with the ultimate goal of developing a therapy that can be used earlier to rapidly improve blood pressure and cardiac function without unwanted side effects of many existing, older agents,” said
The istaroxime phase 2 study in early cardiogenic shock is an international, randomized, double blind, placebo- controlled study. It will include approximately 60 SCAI class B early cardiogenic shock patients with severe heart failure and systolic blood pressures (SBP) between 75-90 mmHg – all will receive standard of care with 30 assigned to istaroxime and 30 assigned to placebo. The patients will receive study drug infusion for 24 hours. The primary endpoint is the difference in SBP area under the curve over six hours after initiating the infusion. Secondary endpoints will include characterization of blood pressure changes over 24 hours, the number of patients requiring rescue therapy (vasopressors, inotropes or mechanical devices), assessment of renal function and measures associated with safety and tolerability. Windtree is targeting topline data results from the study in Q1, 2022.
Sources:
1 www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/cardiogenic-shock
2 Windtree market research, hospital claims data,
3 AHRQ Quality Indicators, Inpatient Quality Indicators, v2020,
4 Windtree market research, hospital claims data,
5 AHRQ, Healthcare cost and utilization project,
About Istaroxime
Istaroxime is a first-in-class dual mechanism therapy designed to improve both systolic and diastolic cardiac function. Istaroxime is a positive inotropic agent that increases myocardial contractility through inhibition of Na+/K+- ATPase with a complimentary mechanism that facilitates myocardial relaxation through activation of the SERCA2a calcium pump on the sarcoplasmic reticulum enhancing calcium reuptake from the cytoplasm. Data from multiple phase 2 studies in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) demonstrate that istaroxime infused intravenously significantly improves cardiac function and blood pressure without causing heart rate increases or rhythm disturbances.
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