Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI): a single-blind randomised controlled trial

Publication date: Available online 6 September 2019Source: The LancetAuthor(s): Derek J Hausenloy, Rajesh K Kharbanda, Ulla Kristine Møller, Manish Ramlall, Jens Aarøe, Robert Butler, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Tim Clayton, Ali Dana, Matthew Dodd, Thomas Engstrom, Richard Evans, Jens Flensted Lassen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, José Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Diana A Gorog, Jakob Hjort, Richard F Houghton, Borja Ibanez, Rosemary KnightSummaryBackgroundRemote ischaemic conditioning with transient ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm has been shown to reduce myocardial infarct size in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We investigated whether remote ischaemic conditioning could reduce the incidence of cardiac death and hospitalisation for heart failure at 12 months.MethodsWe did an international investigator-initiated, prospective, single-blind, randomised controlled trial (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI) at 33 centres across the UK, Denmark, Spain, and Serbia. Patients (age>18 years) with suspected STEMI and who were eligible for PPCI were randomly allocated (1:1, stratified by centre with a permuted block method) to receive standard treatment (including a sham simulated remote ischaemic conditioning intervention at UK sites only) or remote ischaemic conditioning treatment (intermittent ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm through four cycles of 5-min inflation and 5-min deflation of an automated...
Source: The Lancet - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research