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Researchers are evaluating ziltivekimab, a new medicine not yet approved anywhere, to see if it can help people who were hospitalized due to a heart attack. The study aims to find out if ziltivekimab can reduce the development of heart disease and prevent future heart attacks or strokes. This is a Phase 3 clinical trial comparing ziltivekimab to a placebo in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Participants will receive an initial loading dose of ziltivekimab or matching placebo by injection under the skin as soon as possible after an invasive heart procedure, within 36 hours for STEMI or 48 hours for NSTEMI patients. After the loading dose, they will get monthly injections of the same study medicine for up to two years, in addition to their standard care. During the study, participants will be monitored for major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular death. Researchers will also track other heart-related outcomes and safety measures over a period of up to 25 months. The study involves regular visits for injections, assessments, and laboratory tests to evaluate the medicines effects and patient health throughout the trial.

Researchers are evaluating the effects of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose FCM compared with a placebo on death risk, heart failure events, NT-proBNP levels, and quality of life in patients who recently had an acute myocardial infarction AMI and have iron deficiency. This phase 4, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial aims to assess these outcomes over a follow-up period ranging from 8 to 36 months. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either an intravenous 15-minute infusion of 1000 mg FCM diluted in saline or a placebo infusion of saline alone. The first dose is given on the day of randomization, with follow-up visits at 4, 8, 12, 18, 24, and 30 months to reassess participants and possibly repeat treatment if safety criteria are met. During the study, participants undergo evaluations including monitoring of death rates, heart failure events such as unplanned hospitalizations or emergency visits, changes in NT-proBNP concentration, and quality of life measured by the EQ-5D questionnaire. Safety and treatment effects are tracked throughout the follow-up period, which can last up to 36 months from the start of participation.