European Trial of Dronedarone in Moderate to Severe Congestive Heart Failure (ANDROMEDA)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00696631 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
(Terminated as the active treatment was associated with an increased hazard)
First Posted : June 13, 2008
Last Update Posted : February 15, 2010
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Congestive Heart Failure | Drug: Dronedarone (SR33589) Drug: Placebo | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 653 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Double (Participant, Investigator) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Antiarrhythmic Trial With Dronedarone in Moderate to Severe CHF Evaluating Morbidity Decrease |
Study Start Date : | June 2002 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | January 2003 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | August 2003 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Dronedarone 400mg bid
dronedarone 400mg tablets
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Drug: Dronedarone (SR33589)
oral administration
Other Name: Multaq® |
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
matching placebo tablets
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Drug: Placebo
oral administration |
- Death from any cause or adjudicated hospitalization for worsening heart failure [ Time Frame: Until study cut-off date ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients hospitalized with symptomatic CHF, current New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-IV requiring treatment with a diuretic, who had had within the last month at least 1 episode of dyspnea or fatigue at rest, or on slight exertion corresponding to NYHA class III or IV
- Wall motion index (WMI) ≤1.2 determined by a blinded central evaluation of a recorded standard echocardiography, equivalent to a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤35%.
Exclusion Criteria:
- acute pulmonary edema within 12 hours prior to start of study medication
- various heart conditions (cardiogenic shock, obstructive valvular disease, obstructive cardiomyopathy; acute myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery, acute myocarditis or constrictive pericarditis, history of torsades de pointes, bradycardia <50 bpm and/or PR-interval ≥280 ms, QTc-interval >500 ms, significant sinus node disease)
- any illness or disorder other than CHF (cancer with metastasis, organ transplantation)
- current participation in another clinical study or currently taking an investigational drug including dronedarone or concomitant prohibited medication or treatment with other class I or III anti-arrhythmic drugs
- pregnant and/or breastfeeding women or women of child-bearing potential without adequate birth control
- serum potassium <3.5 mmol/L.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00696631
Denmark | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Horsholm, Denmark | |
Hungary | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Budapest, Hungary | |
Netherlands | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Gouda, Netherlands | |
Norway | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Lysaker, Norway | |
Poland | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Warszawa, Poland | |
Sweden | |
Sanofi-aventis Administrative Office | |
Bromma, Sweden |
Study Director: | ICD | Sanofi |
Responsible Party: | ICD Study Director, sanofi-aventis |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00696631 |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00543699 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
EFC4966 SR33589 |
First Posted: | June 13, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 15, 2010 |
Last Verified: | February 2010 |
Heart disease morbidity |
Heart Failure Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Dronedarone Anti-Arrhythmia Agents |