Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Imaging During Transvenous Lead Extraction

ICD Clinical Trial

— ISEE  

Official title:

Intravascular ultraSound (IVUS) Imaging During transvEnous Lead Extraction (ISEE)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04055740
• Other study ID #: IRB18-1600
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 13, 2019
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: University of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging as a tool for grading the presence and characterization of intravascular lead adherence (ILA, or scarring) to cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) leads during transvenous lead extraction (TLE) procedures in a multi-center study. IVUS should identify the location and severity of these adhesions, which the investigators will then correlate to difficulty of the extraction procedure using metrics like pulses of laser energy delivered and time required to traverse an area of fibrosis or ILA. The investigators will be focusing primarily on the section from innominate vein (INNV) down through the superior vena cava (SVC) to the right atrium.

Using IVUS to view blood vessels and the heart structure is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Using it as described in this study is off label because of the manner in which it is advanced to the SVC, through the right atrium. While it is not restricted from use in this way, it is not specifically on-label. It should be noted that the use of IVUS during TLE procedures as proposed in this study is routine at the University of Chicago and patients will undergo this procedure regardless of participation in this study. The EP physician team regards the use of IVUS during TLE to be nonsignificant risk.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 28
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: October 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients at least 21 years of age

• Patients with at least one lead over 1 year dwell time requiring extraction

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability of patient capacity to provide consent for themselves either due to medical or psychiatric comorbidity

• Venous occlusion to the extent that the IVUS catheter cannot pass

• Leads < 1 year dwell time requiring extraction

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Device Malfunction
• ICD
• Pacemaker Lead Dysfunction

Intervention

Device:
• IVUS Imaging
IVUS or radial-ICE (intracardiac echocardiography) is a visualization tool used in many cardiac procedures including electrophysiology procedures (catheter ablation). Its utility in identifying ILA will be assessed in this study.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	The University of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (19)

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Sadek MM, Cooper JM, Frankel DS, Santangeli P, Epstein AE, Marchlinski FE, Schaller RD. Utility of intracardiac echocardiography during transvenous lead extraction. Heart Rhythm. 2017 Dec;14(12):1779-1785. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.08.023. Epub 2017 Aug 24. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	IVUS Grades	Operators will be able to successfully grade the degree of intravascular lead adherence (ILA) seen using IVUS imaging.	6 hours
Secondary	Extraction Difficulty Metrics	Operators will record the energy and time necessary to traverse binding sites and will be able to correlate these two metrics to IVUS ILA grade	Through study completion, expected to be 6 months