The extent of prolongation of ventricular repolarization can be accurately assessed in studies where heart rate changes impede QTc assessment.W.W. There was no evidence of proarrhythmia with any treatment during the study although dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine significantly prolonged QTc. Using an original and robust method of QTc assessment, independent from heart rate changes and from the method of QT correction, we were able to accurately assess the extent of mean maximum QTc prolongation with the four ACTs tested. We assessed QTc prolongation with four ACTs, using high quality ECG recording and measurement techniques, during the first episode of malaria in 2,091 African patients enrolled in the WANECAM study which also monitored clinical safety.
This occurs each time the ventricles are electrically depolarized. The QT interval is a measurement of the heart’s electrical cycle in the lower chambers, starting at the Q wave and ending at the T wave (measured in an ECG). But that was far from what the doctor’s internet research revealed. In other words, Let’s keep this QUIET. Jerry is the head of their research efforts and has in.
Prevention measures such as the use of mosquito nets and increased access to effective treatments contributed to this success 1. Mortality rates have followed a similar pattern. Although the incidence of malaria cases has fallen globally since 2010, the rate of decline has stopped and even reversed in some regions since 2014. The number of fatal cases showed an even more spectacular decline from an estimated 839,000 in 2000 to 445,000 in 2016 1.
Following efficacious treatment of typically anxious patients, who are often young children, heart rate decreases as a result of fever and anxiety regression. Malaria represents a particularly difficult case with respect to correcting the QT interval for changes in heart rate and highly variable QTc prolongation values have been reported in studies of antimalarial drugs 11, 12, 13, 14. However, this parameter is very sensitive to changes in heart rate and hence different correction methods, such as Bazett’s and Fridericia’s corrections, have been proposed to normalize QT to a heart rate of 60 beats per minute 10. Prolongation of the QT interval is therefore used as a surrogate marker for possible effects of drugs on ventricular rhythm. QT/QTc prolongation is associated with rare cases of Torsades de Pointes, a cardiac arrhythmia which is often self-terminating but can lead to ventricular fibrillation and sudden death.
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The observed QT interval prolongation is caused by PQP rather than DHA since administration of 4-aminoquinolines like piperaquine has long been known to be associated with QT interval prolongation 17 and this was recently confirmed for piperaquine 18.The risk of proarrhythmia of ASAQ has been poorly studied. Recently, a clinical trial carried out in Cambodia with DHA-PQP was halted over a concern of QTc prolongation 16. Irrespective of the QT interval correction method used, the study results indicate that, in those patients, treatment with DHA-PQP and ASAQ causes QTc prolongation whereas a mild to moderate prolongation was observed with AL and no prolongation was observed with PA.It has been shown, both in healthy subjects and patients, that administration of DHA-PQP prolongs the QT interval in healthy adults and malaria patients although the extent of prolongation varied widely from 7 to 45.2 ms 11, 12, 13, 14. Prolongation of the QT interval with AL, however, is smaller than with DHA-PQP and ASAQ.In the present study, the effects of 4 different ACTs on the ECG were compared as part of the WANECAM study which included several thousand patients with uncomplicated malaria. The results show the absence of QTc prolongation with PA and confirm the QTc interval prolongation with DHA-PQP, ASAQ and AL. Results are presented in Table 4 and indicate that this method of assessment of QT changes yields consistent results irrespective of the biases introduced by all QT correction formulae and represents a correction-free and heart rate-free assessment of drug effect on the duration of ventricular repolarization.
Cardiac safety was typically not included in several clinical trials with PA 21. In that study, no correlation between plasma concentrations of desethyl-amodiaquine, the main active metabolite of AQ, and changes in QTc was found.In addition to the present study, several reports have indicated a small QT prolonging effect following administration of AL of about 10 ms in both healthy subjects 12 and malaria patients 19, 20. In a study of uncomplicated malaria where children were treated with ASAQ or AL and QT correction was not optimized, the mean change from baseline on day 3 was −11.5 ms for QTcB + 13.4 ms for QTcF with heart rate dropping from 119 to 80 bpm 19.
This decrease in heart rate was most likely the result of treatment of the disease rather than a direct effect of study treatments on heart rate since such an effect was not observed in healthy subjects 22, 23, 26, 27.Since commonly used correction methods failed to obtain reliable results due to very different heart rates at baseline and on-treatment, a new approach was used to estimate drugs effect on QT interval. The large fall in heart rate observed in malaria patients receiving effective treatment 19, 25, contributes to the absence of adequate QT interval correction formula such as what we found in our study where none of the investigated correction methods properly corrected the QT interval after treatment. A study-specific or pre-dose data-driven correction, which has been proposed for studies involving children 24 and which took into account both sex and age, performed better than Bazett’s and Fridericia’s correction methods but still was not optimal as evidenced by a significant slope of the ΔQTc versus ΔRR relationship. In these studies no effects of PA on the QT interval were apparent and this lack of an effect was confirmed in the present study.Correction of the QT interval using the classical correction methods in this study did not result in satisfactory correction after treatment with Bazett under-correcting and Fridericia over-correcting QT and yielding quite different QTc changes from baseline.
Using this correction-free and heart rate-free approach, marked QTc prolonging effects of DHA-PQP and ASAQ were noted while AL had a smaller effect and PA did not affect the QT interval.
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