Direct HIS/LBB Pacing as an Alternative to Biventricular Pacing in Patients With HFrEF and a Typical LBBB. — HIS-alt_2  

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title: Direct HIS/LBB Pacing as an Alternative to Biventricular Pacing in Patients With Symptomatic Heart Failure Despite Optimal Medical Treatment and an ECG With a Typical Left Bundle Branch Block Pattern.

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will investigate the feasibility of using direct HIS pacing or left bundle branch pacing (LBB pacing) as an alternative to biventricular pacing in patients with symptomatic heart failure and an ECG with a typical left bundle branch block pattern.

Clinical Trial Description

Biventricular pacing has for more than a decade been standard of care for patients with HFrEF, LVEF < 35%, NYHA II-IV despite optimal medical treatment and an ECG with left bundle branch block (LBBB). However, it is not always ideal because of several drawbacks such as phrenic nerve capture, inability to reach late activated areas and many more. Direct HIS pacing can in many cases capture the left bundle and provide normal electrical activation of the left ventricle but sometimes with high pacing thresholds. Recently direct left bundle branch pacing has shown promise with synchronous activation of the left ventricle at low pacing thresholds.

In the present study we randomize 125 patients in one center to either conventional CRT (45 patients) or HIS/LBB pacing (80 patients). In the HIS/LBB arm, direct HIS-pacing is attempted first but if its not possible or the pacing threshold for capturing the left bundle branch is > 2.5 V at 1 ms we switch to placing a LBB-lead.

Power calculation for non-inferiority: With the 50 patients in the first His Alternative study (25 Biv-CRT og 25 His-CRT) we observed a fall in systolic volumes of 34% and 46% with a standard deviation of 13-16%. Using these numbers it would take at least 108 patients to be 90% sure that the lower limit of a one-sided 97.5% confidence interval (equal to a 95% two-sided confidence interval) would be over the non-inferiority limit of -10%. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bundle-Branch Block
• Heart Block
• Heart Failure
• Left Bundle-Branch Block

• NCT number: NCT04409119
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
• Contact: Berit Th Philbert, MD PhD
• Phone: +4535451410
• Email: berit.thornvig.philbert@regionh.dk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2020
• Completion date: December 1, 2024