Status:
TERMINATED
A Pilot Study Comparing the Programmed Delay Between the Atrial and Ventricle Interval
Lead Sponsor:
University of Minnesota
Collaborating Sponsors:
Minnesota Medical Foundation
Conditions:
Heart Failure
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
EARLY_PHASE1
Brief Summary
The idea of this study is to compare different ways of setting up a pacemaker, using blood tests to give us information about how well it's working. We hope to learn if we can use this approach to fig...
Detailed Description
There are different kinds of pacemakers and different ways they can be set up to try to make the heart beat regularly. A normal heart has four chambers; these four chambers pump in a co-ordinated way ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Diagnosis of chronic heart failure
- patients on stable pharmacologic therapy for at least 3 months
- EF\< 35%
- age \>18 years
- NYHA functional class III or IV
- eligible for either CRT pacer or CRT defibrillator for heart failure
- Ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
- patients that are able to tolerate VDD mode with a lower rate of 40bpm programming
Exclusion
- systolic blood pressure \<70mmHg
- Likely to receive a left ventricular assist device or cardiac transplant within 6 months of implant procedure
- patients who have previously received a CRT device
- documented atrial fibrillation
- complete heart block
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
25 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00794183
Start Date
June 1 2004
End Date
November 1 2010
Last Update
June 26 2012
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University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455