Design and Rationale of the Phase 3 Tafamidis in Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy Clinical Trial (ATTR-ACT) Mathew S. Maurer, MD; Perry Elliott, MD; Giampaolo Merlini, PhD; Sanjiv J. Shah, MD; Márcia Waddington Cruz, MD; Alison Flynn, BSN; Balarama Gundapaneni, MAS; Carolyn Hahn, BA; Steven Riley, PharmD, PhD; Jeffrey Schwartz, PhD; Marla B. Sultan, MD, MBA; Claudio Rapezzi, MD; on behalf of the ATTR-ACT Study Investigators From Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (M.S.M); University College London, London, UK (P.E); IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (G.M.); Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (S.J.S); Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National Amyloidosis Referral Center, CEPARM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (M.W.C.); Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA (A.F., C.H.); inVentiv Health, Burlington, MA (B.G.); Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT (S.R., J.S.); Pfizer Inc, New York, NY (M.B.S); and the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (C.R). Correspondence to Mathew S. Maurer, MD, Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly (CCRLE), Columbia University Medical Center, Allen Hospital of New York Presbyterian Hospital, 5141 Broadway, 3 Field W, Room 035, New York, NY 10034 . E-mail
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