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Long-term survival in people with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy who took tafamidis: a plain language summary

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source: Future Cardiology

year: 2023

authors: Elliott P, Drachman BM, Gottlieb SS, Hoffman JE, Hummel SL, Lenihan DJ, Ebede B, Gundapaneni B, Li B, Sultan MB, Shah SJ

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This summary presents the results from an ongoing, long-term extension study that followed an earlier study called ATTR-ACT. People who took part in this extension study and ATTR-ACT have a type of heart disease known as transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM for short), which causes heart failure and death. In ATTR-ACT, people took either a medicine called tafamidis or a placebo (a pill that looks like the study drug but does not contain any active ingredients) for up to 2½ years. So far, in the long-term extension study, people have continued taking tafamidis, or switched from taking a placebo to tafamidis, for another 2½ years. Researchers looked at how many people died in ATTR-ACT and the extension study. The long-term extension study is expected to end in 2027, so these are interim (not final) results. 

organization: University College London, UK; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System, USA; University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA; University of Miami, USA; University of Michigan and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, USA; Washington University School of Medicine, USA; Pfizer Inc, USA; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

DOI: 10.2217/fca-2022-0096

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