Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Project My Heart Your Heart: Pacemaker Reuse

Lead Sponsor:

University of Michigan

Conditions:

Device Related Infection

Device Malfunction

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Lack of access to pacemakers is a major challenge to the provision of cardiovascular health care in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Post-mortem pacemaker utilization could be safe, efficacious...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Life expectancy ≥ 2 years.
  • Indications for device implantation must be fulfilled per standard of care. Consistent with 2008 American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guidelines for device therapy, one of the following class I indications must be met.
  • Sinus Node Dysfunction
  • Acquired Atrioventricular (AV) Block
  • Chronic Bifascicular Block
  • Hypersensitive Carotid Syndrome
  • Lack of financial ability to pay for a new device must be assessed and documented.
  • All other methods of new device acquisition must be exhausted.
  • Patient must be agreeable and able to follow-up with the implanting center within 2 weeks for wound check, at 2 months, 6 months, and every 6 months thereafter for routine pacemaker checks.

Exclusion

  • Severe valvular disease
  • Severe pulmonary disease
  • End-stage renal disease (creatinine clearance \< 30 mL/min) whether or not on dialysis
  • Evidence of ongoing systemic infection
  • Prior pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
  • Significant contraindication to pacemaker implantation per evaluation of the implanting physician (very high risk of complications).
  • Presence of any other condition that the local investigator feels would be problematic or would restrict or limit the participation of the patient for the entire study period
  • Pregnant women

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 13 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

January 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

370 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04016870

Start Date

October 13 2018

End Date

January 1 2026

Last Update

July 4 2025

Active Locations (8)

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The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital

Eldoret, Kenya

2

Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon

Monterrey, Mexico

3

Hospital Central de Maputo

Maputo, Mozambique

4

LASUTH

Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, 101233