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Effects of serelaxin in patients admitted for acute heart failure: a meta-analysis

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Teerlink, John R., Davison, Beth A., Cotter, Gad, Maggioni, Aldo P., Sato, Naoki, Chioncel, Ovidiu, Ertl, Georg, Felker, G. Michael +10 more·2020·European Journal of Heart Failure

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Aims: The effectiveness and safety of 48 h intravenous 30 μg/kg/day serelaxin infusion in acute heart failure (AHF) has been studied in six randomized, controlled clinical trials. Methods and results: We conducted a fixed-effect meta-analysis including all studies of intravenous serelaxin initiated within the first 16 h of admission for AHF. Endpoints considered were the primary and secondary endpoints examined in the serelaxin phase III studies. In six randomized controlled trials, 6105 total patients were randomized to receive intravenous serelaxin 30 μg/kg/day and 5254 patients to control. Worsening heart failure to day 5 occurred in 6.0% and 8.1% of patients randomized to serelaxin and control, respectively (hazard ratio 0.77, 95% confidence interval 0.67–0.89; P = 0.0002). Serelaxin had no statistically significant effect on length of stay, or cardiovascular death, or heart or renal failure rehospitalization. Serelaxin administration resulted in statistically significant improvement in markers of renal function and reductions in both N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and troponin. No significant adverse outcomes were noted with serelaxin. Through the last follow-up, which occurred at an average of 4.5 months (1–6 months), serelaxin administration was associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality, with an estimated hazard ratio of 0.87 (95% confidence interval 0.77–0.98; P = 0.0261). Conclusions: Administration of intravenous serelaxin to patients admitted for AHF was associated with a highly significant reduction in the risk of 5-day worsening heart failure and in changes in renal function markers, but not length of stay, or cardiovascular death, or heart or renal failure rehospitalization. Serelaxin administration was safe and associated with a significant reduction in all-cause mortality.

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Teerlink, J. R., Davison, B. A., Cotter, G., Maggioni, A. P., Sato, N., Chioncel, O., Ertl, G., Felker, G. M., Filippatos, G., Greenberg, B. H., Pang, P. S., Ponikowski, P., Edwards, C., Senger, S., Teichman, S. L., Nielsen, O. W., Voors, A. A., & Metra, M.
Affiliations
  • San Francisco VA Medical Center (US)
  • Momentum Research (US)
  • Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (IT)
  • Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital (JP)
  • Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO)
  • University of Würzburg (DE)
  • Duke University (US)
  • University General Hospital Attikon (GR)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Indiana University School of Medicine (US)
  • Wroclaw Medical University (PL)
  • Formerly Corthera , San Carlos, CA ,
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
  • University of Brescia (IT)
Corresponding author
Cotter, Gad
Venue
European Journal of Heart Failure
Published
2019-12-30
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
315-329
ISSN
  • 1388-9842 (ISSN-L)
  • 1879-0844
OpenAlex
W2998077612
Cited by
41
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8
FWCI
0.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • European Journal of Heart Failure (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia) (submittedVersion)
  • Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca - Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
Keywords
serelaxin, acute heart failure, intravenous infusion, worsening heart failure, all-cause mortality, renal function, natriuretic peptides, troponin, hospital readmission, drug safety
MeSH terms
Acute Disease, Double-Blind Method, Heart Failure, Humans, Recombinant Proteins, Relaxin, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome

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