Half-dose Ticagrelor Overcomes High-dose Clopidogrel in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients With High On-Clopidogrel Platelet Reactivity

Status unconfirmed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Coronary Artery Disease, Clopidogrel, Poor Metabolism of

In brief

With the widespread use of clopidogrel, resistance to clopidogrel has been attracting increasing attention, and emerged as a new challenge adversely affecting patients clinical risk and outcome. Clopidogrel resistance means that blood platelets show little or no response to clopidogrel. It is closely associated with increased risk of serious cardiovascular events, seriously affects the prognosis of patients, and brings difficulties to clinical treatment. Guideline recommendations on the use of dual antiplatelet therapy have been formulated that ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily plus aspirin in preference to clopidogrel 75mg daily plus aspirin for ACS patients. Recent study found that ticagrelor 90mg twice a day orally could significantly reduce the occurrence of clopidogrel resistance and adverse cardiovascular events. The previous studies have reported that half-dose ticagrelor had the similar inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation as the standard-dose ticagrelor, which was significantly stronger than that in the clopidogrel group. But it is still not very clear that the effect of low-dose ticagrelor on platelet function in patients with clopidogrel resistance and coronary heart disease. Therefore, we performed this randomized, single-blind clinical trial to observe the effects of low-dose ticagrelor and double standard-dose clopidogrel on platelet aggregation and prognosis in clopidogrel resistance's patients with coronary heart disease.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03062462

Run by

First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University

People needed

80

Starts

2017-02-10

Expected to finish

2019-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-05-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with oral clopidogrel treatment admitted to hospital within 24 hours or long-term follow-up outpatients with oral clopidogrel treatment;
• The platelet aggregation rate (PAgR) measured with light transmission aggregometry (LTA) is decreased no more than 10% from baseline level, or PAgR is more than 46% and the percentage of inhibition of ADP-induced platelet aggregation measured by thrombelastogram is not more than 30%;

You may not qualify if…

• Planned use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor antagonists, or anticoagulant therapy during the study period;
• Platelet count <100g/L;
• Creatinine clearance rate < 30ml/min;
• Diagnosed as respiratory or circulatory instability (cardiac shock, severe congestive heart failure NYHA II-IV or left ventricular ejection fraction < 40%);
• A history of bleeding tendency;
• Aspirin, ticagrelor or clopidogrel allergies;
• Severe liver injury.

Where it is running

• whole blood lumi-aggregometer type 560 VS — Havertown, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)

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