Revue médicale de Liège
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Revue médicale de Liège · Sep 2016
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study[Study of the month : FLAME study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
The place of combinations of bronchodilators (longacting beta-agonist / muscarinic agonist or LABA / LAMA) in the prevention of the exacerbations of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not still clearly established, and need a comparison with combination of LABA/ inhaled steroids. FLAME was a randomized non-inferiority phase 3 study comparing indacaterol/glycopyrronium 110/50 μg (IND/GLY) once daily with salmeterol/proprionate of fluticasone 50/500 μg (SAL/FC) twice daily. ⋯ IND/GLY prolonged the time to the first COPD exacerbation by 16 % for mild, 22 % for moderate and 19 % for severe by comparison with SAL/FC (all with p inferior to 0.05). FLAME study showed that IND/GLY, a steroid-free option, is more effective than SAL/FC in preventing COPD exacerbations in patients with one or more exacerbations in the past year.