In STEMI patients undergoing pPCI, exenatide increased myocardial salvage index versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn patients with STEMI undergoing pPCI, exenatide increased the heart muscle salvage index compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- IncreaseMyocardial salvage index
- Study
n = 105
- Comparator
- Placebo (saline)
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Heart function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intravenous · 15 min before intervention and maintained for 6 h after the procedureAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Salvage index
- 0.71 index
- exenatide
- Salvage index
- 0.62 index
- placebo
Source sentences
In 105 patients evaluated with CMR, a significantly larger salvage index was found in the exenatide group than in the placebo group (0.71 ± 0.13 vs. 0.62 ± 0.16; P= 0.003).
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The primary endpoint was salvage index calculated from myocardial area at risk (AAR), measured in the acute phase, and final infarct size measured 90 ± 21 days after pPCI by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).
A total of 172 patients with STEMI and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction flow 0/1 were randomly assigned to exenatide or placebo (saline) intravenously.
Study treatment was commenced 15 min before intervention and maintained for 6 h after the procedure.