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	HEART FAILURE

 
No benefit seen in VERITAS
Endothelins are powerful vasoconstrictive peptides that have been shown to correlate with a poor prognosis in patients with heart failure. Therefore could tezosentan, an intravenous short-acting endothelin receptor antagonist, improve outcomes in patients with acute heart failure?

Two identical, concurrent trials named VERITAS (Value of Endothelin Receptor Inhibition with Tezosentan in Acute Heart Failure Studies) were conducted over three continents and enrolled 1435 patients. All participants had been admitted within the previous 24 hours with acute decompensated heart failure that did not respond to diuretics, and went on to receive either placebo or IV tezosentan for 24–72 hours. The coprimary endpoints were change in dyspnoea (measured using a visual analogue scale at 3, 6, and 24 hours) and incidence of death or worsening heart failure at 7 days in both trials.

Baseline dyspnoea scores were similar in the two treatment groups, and the mean left ventricular ejection fraction (where measured) . . . [Full text of this article]