Istaroxime Fast-Tracked for Acute Heart Failure Treatment

Istaroxime Fast-Tracked for Acute Heart Failure Treatment

The Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track to istaroxime (Windtree Therapeutics) the treatment acute failure (HF). Istaroxime is first-in-class, luso-inotropic Istaroxime Fast-Tracked for agent that myocardial contractility through inhibition Na+/K+-ATPase. It also the SERCA2a pump the sarcoplasmic reticulum enhancing reuptake from the cytoplasm in myocardial relaxation.   The 1. 0.

The negative findings of the RELAX-AHF-2 trial, which tested serelaxin, a recombinant form of human relaxin-2, for the treatment of patients with acute heart failure (AHF), are now published. The results were first reported in 2017 at the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure (ESC-HF) meeting, and are published online August 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial led to Novartis opting out of further development of the drug, which might seem to mark the end of any discussion around the drug's usefulness, but, according to acute heart failure treatment John Teerlink, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco, coprincipal investigator with Marco Metra, MD, from Brescia, Italy, there is more to discuss and consider. "We did not confirm the mortality benefit seen in RELAX-AHF in RELAX-AHF-2, but we hope that now, with the publication of the primary manuscript, we will be able to also perform secondary analyses that further elucidate some of the distinctions between serelaxin and other drugs that have failed in acute heart failure, namely ularitide, which have been lumped together with serelaxin as failed agents.

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