Rivaroxaban in Left Ventricular Thrombus

Efficacy of Rivaroxaban in Patients With Left Ventricular Thrombus After Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Open Label Randomized Control Trial

The left ventricular (LV) thrombus is an important complication of myocardial infarction (MI) and vitamin K antagonist (VKA) is the current recommended management therapy for these patients. However, lack of regular international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring, drug, and food interaction may leads to increased risk of over or under anticoagulation consequently compromising the effectiveness of the therapy. Hence, due to benefits like predictable dosing and lack of need for regular monitoring, use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for these patients is increasing among cardiologists. However, clinical data for the justified use of NOACs in LV thrombus (LVT) are lacking and remained a point of debate among the cardiologists. A recently published Randomized Control Trial (RCT) by Abdelnabi M et al. namely the No-LVT trial, had established the safety of Rivaroxaban therapy in patient with post myocardial infarction (MI) LV thrombus along with promising efficacy. However, sample size of the study (n=79; 39 in Rivaroxaban and 40 Warfarin) was not sufficiently high enough to conclude efficacy of Rivaroxaban in these patients. Therefore, this open label RCT is designed with the primary objective to evaluate the efficacy of Rivaroxaban in resolution of post MI LV thrombus as compared to standard warfarin therapy at the interval of 1 month and 3 months to test the hypothesis that Rivaroxaban is safe and non-inferior in preventing thromboembolic and major bleeding events in these patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome; Left Ventricular Thrombus
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Rivaroxaban; Drug: Warfarin

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 261
• Phase: Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Pakistan
  • Sindh
    • Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, 75510
      • National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients of acute coronary syndrome with LV thrombus
• Hemodynamically stable
• Willing to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior history of cardiomyopathy
• Anticoagulant contraindications
• Prior history of stroke with residual neurological deficit
• Valvular atrial fibrilation
• Pregnancy
• Mentally retarded
• Deranged liver function tests (LFTS)
• Creatinine Clearance <50 ml

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment group; Patients in the intervention group will receive Rivaroxaban 20 mg once a day (OD) for three months	Drug: Rivaroxaban; Dose of 20 mg once a day for three months followed by transthoracic echocardiographic assessment for presence/absence of LV thrombus after 4 weeks and 12 weeks
Active Comparator: Control group; Patients in the control group will receive usual warfarin therapy dose adjusted as per the target INR of 2 to 3	Drug: Warfarin; Dose as per the target INR of 2 to 3 with transthoracic echocardiographic assessment for presence/absence of LV thrombus after 4 weeks and 12 weeks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Left ventricular (LV) thrombus	Presence or absence of LV thrombus on transthoracic echocardiographic	After 12 weeks of randomization

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Stroke or systemic embolism	Confirmed on computerized tomography (CT) scan	Within 12 weeks of randomization
Major bleeding	As per the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) criteria	Within 12 weeks of randomization

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pakistan
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jehangir A Shah, FCPS, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Karachi, Pakistan

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Abdelnabi M, Saleh Y, Fareed A, Nossikof A, Wang L, Morsi M, Eshak N, Abdelkarim O, Badran H, Almaghraby A. Comparative Study of Oral Anticoagulation in Left Ventricular Thrombi (No-LVT Trial). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Mar 30;77(12):1590-1592. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.049. No abstract available.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 25, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 31, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 10, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): July 21, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 15, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 13, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Diseases; Embolism and Thrombosis; Myocardial Ischemia; Thrombosis; Acute Coronary Syndrome; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Protease Inhibitors; Enzyme Inhibitors; Anticoagulants; Factor Xa Inhibitors; Antithrombins; Serine Proteinase Inhibitors; Rivaroxaban; Warfarin
• Other Study ID Numbers: ERC-70/2021

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: Yes