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277 Heart Failure Clinical Trial Enrollment at a Rural Satellite Hospital
- Antonio Abbate, Yub Raj Sedhai, Nimesh K. Patel, Virginia Mihalick, Azita Talasaz, Georgia Thomas, Bethany L. Denlinger, Juan I. Damonte, Marco Del Buono, Emily Federmann, Mary Hardin, Ikenna Ibe, Mary Harmon, Benjamin Van Tassell, Antonio Abbate, James C. Roberts
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 6 / Issue s1 / April 2022
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- 19 April 2022, p. 47
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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical condition that notably affects the lives of patients in rural areas. The partnering of a rural satellite hospital with an urban academic medical center may provide geographically underrepresented populations with HF an opportunity to access controlled clinical trials (CCTs). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We report our experience in screening, consenting and enrolling subjects at the VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (VCU-CMH) in rural South Hill, Virginia, that is part of the larger VCU Health network, with the lead institution being VCU Health Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (VCU-MCV), Richmond, VA. Subjects were enrolled in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03797001) and assigned to treatment with an anti-inflammatory drug for HF or placebo. We used the electronic health record and remote guidance and oversight from the VCU-MCV resources using a closed-loop communication network to work with local resources at the facility to perform screening, consenting and enrollment. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: One hundred subjects with recently decompensated HF were screened between January 2019 and August 2021, of these 61 are enrolled to date: 52 (85 %) at VCU-MCV and 9 (15%) at VCU-CMH. Of the subjects enrolled at VCU-CMH, 33% were female, 77% Black, with a mean age of 5210 years. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: The use of a combination of virtual/remote monitoring and guidance of local resources in this trial provides an opportunity for decentralization and access of CCTs for potential novel treatment of HF to underrepresented individuals from rural areas.
Clinical trial enrollment at a rural satellite hospital during COVID-19 pandemic
- Yub Raj Sedhai, Melissa Sears, Alessandra Vecchiè, Aldo Bonaventura, Joan Greer, Kathryn Spence, Hilary Tackett, Juanita Turner, Mary Pak, Nimesh Patel, Mellisa Black, George Wohlford, Rick Earle Clary, Christina Duke, Mary Hardin, Heather Kemp, Anna Priday, Earl Kenneth Sims, Jr, Virginia Mihalick, Ai-Chen Ho, Ikenna Ibe, Mary Harmon, Roshanak Markley, Benjamin Van Tassell, Antonio Abbate
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / 2021
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- 08 April 2021, e136
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Introduction:
Controlled clinical trials (CCTs) have traditionally been limited to urban academic clinical centers. Implementation of CCTs in rural setting is challenged by lack of resources, the inexperience of patient care team members in CCT conductance and workflow interruption, and global inexperience with remote data monitoring.
Methods:We report our experience during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in activating through remote monitoring a multicenter clinical trial (the Study of Efficacy and Safety of Canakinumab Treatment for cytokine release syndrome (CRS) in Participants with COVID-19-induced Pneumonia [CAN-COVID] trial, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04362813) at a rural satellite hospital, the VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (VCU-CMH) in South Hill, VA, that is part of the larger VCU Health network, with the lead institution being VCU Health Medical College of Virginia Hospital (VCU-MCV), Richmond, VA. We used the local resources at the facility and remote guidance and oversight from the VCU-MCV resources using a closed-loop communication network. Investigational pharmacy, pathology, and nursing were essential to operate the work in coordination with the lead institution.
Results:Fifty-one patients with COVID-19 were enrolled from May to August 2020, 35 (69%) at VCU-MCV, and 16 (31%) at VCU-CMH. Among the patients enrolled at VCU-CMH, 37.5% were female, 62.5% Black, and had a median age of 60 (interquartile range 56–68) years.
Conclusion:Local decentralization of this trial in our experience gave rural patients access to a novel treatment and also accelerated enrollment and more diverse participants’ representative of the target population.
3415 Percent Predicted Peak Exercise Oxygen Pulse Is a Marker of Cardiac Reserve Following Thoracic Radiotherapy
- Justin McNair Canada, Elisabeth Weiss, John Grizzard, Ronald Evans, Ryan Garten, Benjamin Van Tassell, Salvatore Carbone, Cory R. Trankle, Hayley Billingsley, Dinesh Kadariya, Antonio Abbate
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 3 / Issue s1 / March 2019
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- 26 March 2019, p. 133
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Cardiac radiation exposure following anti-cancer (CA) thoracic radiotherapy (RT) treatment increases risk of heart failure in a dose-dependent manner with a predominantly restrictive cardiomyopathy phenotype and is characterized by a diffuse fibrosis within the myocardium. The peak oxygen pulse (O2Pulse) determined at cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is the quotient of oxygen consumption (VO2) divided by the heart rate (HR) at peak exercise. Through deduction of the Fick equation (VO2 = cardiac output (CO) x arteriovenous oxygen difference) it provides a noninvasive estimate of the stroke volume response to exercise. Knowledge of the relationship between cardiac radiation dose and O2Pulse may provide mechanistic insight into the cardiac reserve of the CA survivor following thoracic RT. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Patients without a history of cardiovascular disease with a history of thoracic RT for CA treatment with significant incidental heart exposure (≥5 Gray (Gy) to ≥10% of the heart volume) underwent treadmill CPET to determine cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to quantify central hemodynamics and for myocardial tissue characterization. The mean cardiac radiation dose (MCRD) and %volume of heart dose was determined from dose-volume histograms reflective of the dose contributions from all RT treatments for each patient. The oxygen pulse (milliliters (mL) of O2 per heart beat) was determined by dividing the absolute VO2 by the HR (beats per minute, bpm) at peak exercise and reported as %-predicted values to account for age and gender differences. Data are reported as number (%) or median (interquartile range). A stepwise multivariate linear regression model was created from significant univariate RT and CMR variables to determine independent predictors of %O2Pulse. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Thirty patients (age = 63 [57-67] years, 18 [60%] female, 2.0 [0.1-28.7] years since completion of RT) underwent study procedures. The peak VO2=1376 mL·min-1 (62% of predicted) and peak HR = 150 (122-164) bpm resulted in a peak O2Pulse of 9.2 mL/beat (82% of predicted). The MCRD = 5.6 [3.7-17.8] Gy was inversely associated with %O2Pulse at univariate analysis (R = −0.514, p < .01), but was not retained at multivariate analysis. The CMR-derived CO ([4.9 (4.09-5.90) Liters/minute], β = +.374, p < .01), CMR-extracellular volume ([ECV, 26.9 (24.8-29.2)%], β = −.536, p < .01), and volume of the heart exposed to ≥30 Gy ([2.5 (0-15.0)Gy], (β = −.345, p = .01) were retained in the model (R2 = .709, F(3,19) = 15.438, p < .001) and were independent predictors of the %O2Pulse. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: In patients with significant heart exposure following RT, %O2Pulse (a surrogate of stroke volume response to exercise) is inversely associated with cardiac radiation dose and is related to central hemodynamics (CO) and markers of diffuse fibrosis (ECV).
2390: Cardiac abnormalities drive exercise intolerance in patients with nonslcoholic fatty liver disease
- Justin M. Canada, Hayley Billingsly, Leo Buckley, Salvatore Carbone, Dinesh Kadariya, Benjamin Van Tassell, Antonio Abbate, Mohammad Siddiqui
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 1 / Issue S1 / September 2017
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- 10 May 2018, pp. 36-37
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 1 in 3 Americans and can exist in 2 histological subtypes: simple hepatic steatosis (SHS) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a clinically aggressive variant. Fatigue is the most common complaint in patients with NAFLD but the etiology of fatigue is unknown. Thus, the goal of this study was to objectively evaluate fatigue via maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing and identify determinants of exercise intolerance in NAFLD. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: In total, 14 subjects with histologically confirmed NAFLD were prospectively enrolled. Subjects with cirrhosis or those with known history of heart failure (systolic or diastolic) were excluded. Fatigue was quantified via the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) questionnaire. A symptom-limited treadmill cardiopulmonary exercise test was performed in all subjects to measure exercise time (ET) and peak oxygen consumption (peak VO2). Doppler-echocardiography was performed to measure systolic and diastolic function. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The DASI score and ET was significantly reduced in patients with NASH (n=10) when compared to those with SHS [40.2 (IQR=24.2–50.7) vs. 58.2 (IQR=50.7–58.2), p=0.04]; [9.1 (IQR=6.4–12.2) vs. 13.1 (IQR=12.5–13.1) min, p=0.02, respectively] reflecting moderate fatigue and impaired overall exercise capacity. The ET was directly linked to peak VO2 (R=+0.79, p<0.001), VO2 at anaerobic threshold (R=+0.73, p=0.003), and inversely to ventilatory efficiency index (R=−0.785, p=0.001) suggesting impaired cardiorespiratory fitness in those with reduced ET. ET was also linked to several parameters of diastolic dysfunction including left atrial volume index (R=−0.798, p<0.001), and the ratio of early transmitral pulse-wave Doppler flow velocity (E) to early mitral annulus tissue Doppler velocity E’ (E/E’) (R=−0.608, p=0.036), suggesting a role of diastolic dysfunction in patients with NAFLD with exercise intolerance. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Cardiac abnormalities drive cardiorespiratory fitness and exercise intolerance in patients with NAFLD. These findings are exaggerated in patients with NASH suggesting a link between disease severity in NAFLD, exercise intolerance and diastolic dysfunction.
2438: Dose-dependent nature of cocaine infusions on cardiovascular hemodynamics
- Salvatore Carbone, Benjamin Van Tassell, Antonio Abbate, Justin Canada, Leo F. Buckley III, Sade Johns, Dinesh Kadariya, F. Gerard Moeller
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 1 / Issue S1 / September 2017
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- 10 May 2018, pp. 37-38
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Cocaine use is a significant health problem in the United States and associated with increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Our goal was to evaluate the effects of rapid cocaine infusions on cardiovascular hemodynamics among patients with cocaine abuse disorder. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Patients with a history of cocaine abuse but no overt cardiovascular disease received 4 consecutive intravenous infusions of cocaine (0, 10, 20, 40 mg) given in randomized, double-blinded order. The infusion procedure was repeated on 2 consecutive days (4 infusions each day). Following each dose, patients underwent continuous monitoring via fingertip plethysmography for 30 minutes, followed by an additional 30 minutes washout procedure. Patients were surveyed throughout this timeline to record symptoms of cocaine response. Finger tracings were then used to calculate arterial pressure curves and parameters of heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output, stroke volume, and systemic vascular resistance according to device-specific algorithms. Mean values were calculated over the entire 30 minutes follow-up and peak values were defined as the maximum value sustained over any 60-second interval during the follow-up period. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Seven patients were enrolled and received cocaine infusions of 2 consecutive days. Cocaine dose was positively associated with mean cardiac output (R=0.489, p<0.001), peak diastolic blood pressure (R=0.435, p=0.001), mean heart rate (R=0.401, p=0.003), peak systolic blood pressure (R=0.399, p=0.003), peak mean arterial pressure (R=0.362, p=0.008), mean systolic blood pressure (R=0.399, p=0.003), +dP/dt (R=0.346, p=0.012), and peak heart rate (R=0.334, p=0.015). Hemodynamic parameters were also predictive of patient-reported symptoms of cocaine response. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: These data confirm the known pharmacologic effect of cocaine to prevent reuptake of neurotransmitters and demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a noninvasive assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics as a measure of responsiveness to cocaine infusions. This procedure also provides a benchmark to evaluate the potential impact of pharmacologic treatments on cocaine-induced hemodynamic changes and patient perceptions of cocaine response.
2363: Ventriculo-arterial coupling and left ventricular mechanical work in systolic and diastolic heart failure
- Leo Buckley, Justin Canada, Salvatore Carbone, Cory Trankle, Michele Mattia Viscusi, Jessica Regan, Dave Dixon, Nayef Abouzaki, Sanah Christopher, Hayley Billingsley, Dinesh Kadariya, Ross Arena, Antonio Abbate, Benjamin Van Tassell
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 1 / Issue S1 / September 2017
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- 10 May 2018, p. 36
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Our goal was to compare the ventriculo-arterial coupling and left ventricular mechanical work of patients with systolic and diastolic heart failure (SHF and DHF). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Patients with New York Heart Association Functional Class II-III HF symptoms were included. SHF was defined as left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction<50% and DHF as >50%. Analysis of the fingertip arterial blood pressure tracing captured with a finger plethysmography cuff according to device-specific algorithms provided brachial artery blood pressure and stroke volume. LV end-systolic volume was measured separately via transthoracic echocardiography. Arterial elastance (Ea), a measure of pulsatile and nonpulsatile LV afterload, was calculated as LV end-systolic pressure (ESP)/end-diastolic volume. End-systolic elastance (Ees), a measure of load-independent LV contractility, was calculated as LV ESP/end-systolic volume. Ventriculo-arterial coupling (VAC) ratio was defined as Ea/Ees. Stroke work (SWI) was calculated as stroke volume index×LV end-systolic pressure×0.0136 and potential energy index (PEI) as 1/2×(LV end-systolic volume×LV end-systolic pressure×0.0136). Total work index (TWI) was the sum of SWI+PEI. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Patients with SHF (n=52) and DHF (n=29) were evaluated. Median (IQR) age was 57 (51–64) years. There were 48 (58%) and 59 (71%) patients were male and African American, respectively. Cardiac index was 2.8 (2.2–3.2) L/minute and 3.0 (2.8–3.3) L/minute in SHF and DHF, respectively (p=0.12). Self-reported activity levels (Duke Activity Status Index, p=0.48) and heart failure symptoms (Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire, p=0.55) were not different between SHF and DHF. Ea was significantly lower in DHF compared with SHF patients [1.3 (1.2–1.6) vs. 1.7 (1.4–2.0) mmHg; p<0.001] whereas Ees was higher in DHF vs. SHF [2.8 (2.1–3.1) vs. 0.9 (0.7-1.3) mmHg; p<0.001). VAC was 1.8 (1.3–2.8) in SHF Versus 0.5 (0.4–0.7) in DHF (p<0.001). Compared with SHF, DHF patients had higher SWI [71 (57–83) vs. 48 (39–68) gm×m; p<0.001) and lower PEI [19 (12–26) vs. 44 (36–57) gm×m; p<0.001]. TWI did not differ between SHF and DHF (p=0.14). Work efficiency was higher in DHF than SHF [0.80 (0.74–0.84) vs. 0.53 (0.46–0.64); p<0.001]. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The results underscore the differences in pathophysiology between SHF and DHF patients with similar symptom burden and exercise capacity. These results highlight the difference in myocardial energy utilization between SHF and DHF.
2544: Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid consumption is associated with improved body composition in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients
- Hayley Billingsley, Salvatore Carbone, Justin M. Canada, Leo Buckley, Dave L. Dixon, Dinesh Kadariya, Sofanit Dessie, Benjamin W. Van Tassell, Antonio Abbate, Mohammad Siddiqui
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 1 / Issue S1 / September 2017
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- 10 May 2018, p. 38
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a common cause of chronic liver disease in the United States characterized by fat accumulation, inflammation, and fibrosis. Higher amounts of fat-free mass (FFM) and lower amounts of fat mass (FM) have been associated with better outcomes in several chronic diseases, recently also in NASH. Body composition is highly influenced by diet. However, the role of diet on body composition in patients with NASH is largely unknown. We hypothesized that consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), healthy fatty acids mainly found in fish, nuts, and some vegetable oils, is associated with improved body composition, specifically greater FFM and lower FM, in NASH patients. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: In total, 13 patients with histologically confirmed NASH underwent body composition testing via bioelectrical impedance analysis to estimate FFM% (% of body weight), FM% (% of body weight), and FFM/FM ratio. PUFA and saturated fat consumption was determined by standardized 5-pass 24-hour dietary recall. Correlations were computed using the Spearman rank test. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Median body mass index (BMI) was 35.7 kg/m2 (32.8–42.7), median age of the sample was 50 years (46.3–57.3), and 73% were female. Median percent of calories from polyunsaturated fat was 6.8% (5.4–9.6). Percent of calories from PUFA was positively and significantly associated with greater FFM% (R=0.56, p=0.049), lower FM% (R=−0.59, p=0.035), and greater FFM/FM ratio (R=0.58, p=0.037). Additionally, a higher PUFA to saturated fatty acids ratio was also significantly correlated with greater FFM% (R=0.58, p=0.039), lower FM% (R=−0.64, p=0.020), and greater FFM/FM ratio (R=0.57, p=0.043). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: In patients with NASH, the consumption of PUFA is associated with higher FFM and lower FM, which suggests a protective role of these nutrients on body composition. A larger study on patients with NASH is warranted to confirm our findings on PUFA consumption and body composition, as well as to determine whether these effects will improve clinical outcomes.