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NCT05855746

PHASE3

Colchicine Versus Placebo in Acute Myocarditis Patients

Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

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Summary

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart, mostly caused by viruses. Patients with acute myocarditis are exposed to several complications: recurrence, ventricular arrhythmias (from 5 to 30%), heart failure (5-10%), death or heart transplantation (\< 4%). To date, there is no specific treatment for myocarditis. Patient management only focuses upon empirical optimal care of arrhythmia and heart failure. There is a strong rationale for using colchicine in acute myocarditis: * the IL1 (Interleukin1) pathway plays a detrimental role in acute myocarditis. NLRP3 (NOD-like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 3) inflammasome assembly, and subsequent IL-1beta production, are profoundly inhibited by colchicine. * colchicine has been shown to improve cardiac outcomes in inflammatory cardiac disorders, including pericarditis, coronary artery disease, and post pericardiotomy syndrome. * In murine model of CVB3-induced myocarditis (coxsackievirus B3), colchicine improved myocarditis through reduction of NLRP3 activity. * Small case series with improvement of left ejection fraction in myocarditis following low-dose colchicine in addition to conventional heart failure therapy have been reported. With its pleiotropic anti-inflammatory effect in the pro-inflammatory cascade, reducing the myocardial damage and cell death induced during myocarditis, colchicine has the potential to reduce the risk of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias. Finally, colchicine is a drug widely available, at low cost, and has a long and well-known safety record.

Official title: Colchicine Versus Placebo in Acute Myocarditis Patients to Reduce Late Gadolinium Enhancement Mass on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and the Risk of Clinical Outcomes: The ARGO Trial

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - 65 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

300

Start Date

2024-07-16

Completion Date

2028-07-16

Last Updated

2026-02-25

Healthy Volunteers

Conditions

Acute Myocarditis

Interventions

DRUG

Colchicine Pill

Participant receive, in addition to standard of care therapy, six months of colchicine (at a dose of 0.5 mg twice daily, morning and evening) beginning maximum 72 hours post-randomization. The standard of care is defined according to the European consensus paper as follow: All participants without contraindication receive a betablockers, and heart failure ESC (European Society of Cardiology) guidelines directed medical therapies if LVEF \< 50% (Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction), including ACE (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme) inhibitors, diuretics if indicated. The choice of the dosage and the drug is left at the investigator decision. During the six months of the treatment administration, in case of severe adverse reaction (such as nausea and/or diarrhea during five days), a dose reduction could be considered by the investigator: half of the study protocol dose could be accepted (0.5 mg per day in the morning). In case of remaining adverse reactions, the study drug should be stopped.

DRUG

Placebo

Participant receive, in addition to standard of care therapy, six months of placebo (at a dose of 0.5 mg twice daily, morning and evening) beginning maximum 72 hours post-randomization. The standard of care is defined according to the European consensus paper as follow: All participants without contraindication receive a betablockers, and heart failure ESC (European Society of Cardiology) guidelines directed medical therapies if LVEF \< 50% (Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction), including ACE (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme) inhibitors, diuretics if indicated. The choice of the dosage and the drug is left at the investigator decision.

Inclusion Criteria: * Symptom onset of 28 days or less, * Myocarditis initially presenting with chest pain and/or Heart failure symptoms and/or palpitations * Troponins superior to 99 percentile of reference value, at any time between admission and inclusion * Myocarditis diagnostic confirmation (by Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR), according to the Lake Louise criteria (2009 or later), * No evidence for ischemic heart disease on coronary angiography or coronary computed tomography angiography for patients with age superior to 40-year-old with one or more cardiovascular risk factor (hypertension, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, personal or family history of coronary artery disease), * Woman of child-bearing age with an effective contraception method according to the investigator for the duration of treatment and one month after, * Man accepting effective contraception for the duration of treatment and one month after, * Participant with affiliation to the French Health Care System "sécurité sociale", * Written informed consent of the patient obtained. Exclusion Criteria: * Cardiogenic shock requiring inotropes or vasopressors (patients with inotropes discontinued for more than 24 hours can be enrolled) * Giant cell myocarditis or eosinophilic myocarditis * Acute coronary syndrome or known coronary stenosis superior to 50% * Toxic cardiomyopathy * Active chronic inflammatory disease, chronic active infection, evolving cancer * A recent severe sepsis (7 days) * Hypersensitivity to Investgational Medical Product's active substances (colchicine) or to any of the excipients (including lactose, sucrose, microcrystalline cellulose, colloidal silica, magnesium stearate, colourants : E127, Dual Red 40 ) * Any known contra-indication to CMR or associated contract products (claustrophobia; intra-ocular metal foreign bodies, clips such as cerebral, carotid, or aortic aneurysm, cochlear implants, any implant held in by magnet, history of hypersensitivity to gadoteric acid or to gadolinium contrast agents or to meglumine). Patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or pacemaker (PM) are also excluded due to the risk of imaging artifacts, which may compromise the reliable quantification of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). * Chronic treatment with corticosteroids or Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) or high-dose aspirin or immunosuppressant. * Sarcoidosis * Severe liver (Child Pugh C) or known renal dysfunction (known Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) less or equal to 30 ml/min according Cockroft), * Cytopenia : hemoglobin less than 100 grams/L, white blood cell count less than 3.0 G/L, platelet count less than 100 G/L between admission and inclusion (within 7 days) * Major digestive disorders (chronic diarrhea, inflammatory disease of the digestive tract as uncontrolled ulcerative colitis or active Crohn disease) * Immunosuppression, spinal cord aplasia * Hemopathy * Hypereosinophilia more than 0.5 G/L between admission and inclusion * Pregnant or nursing women, where pregnancy is defined as the state of a female after conception and until the termination of gestation, confirmed by a positive local laboratory test, * Administration of any investigational drug or participation in another interventional trial, within 30 days before randomization, * Participant under treatment having an interaction with colchicine \[macrolides (telithromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, dirithromycin, erythromycin, josamycin, midecamycin, roxithromycin), pristinamycin,, cyclosporine, verapamil, all protease inhibitors, telaprevir, CYP3A4 powerful inhibitors, azole antifungals, vitamin K antagonists\] * Participant under legal protection: under guardianship (trusteeship or curatorship)

Locations (2)

Unité de Soins Intensifs Cardiologiques - Hôpital Cardiovasculaire Louis Pradel

Bron, France

Institut de Cardiologie - APHP Pitié Salpêtrière

Paris, France