View clinical trials related to Ventricular Tachycardia.
Filter by:The goal of this trial is to test the impact of a step-wise approach for catheter ablation of recurrent ventricular tachycardia, (irregular heart rhythms that originate in the bottom chambers of the heart), in patients with a previous heart attack for whom catheter ablation is clinically indicated.
This is a multi-center prospective registry of patients with an ejection fraction (EF) ≤ 35% following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in order to test the hypothesis that wearable defibrillators (WD) will decrease overall mortality after discharge by decreasing arrhythmic death in this select population with high risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). This is a pilot project to determine the feasibility of a larger-scale study.
This study will assess the outcomes of using magnetic navigation to treat ventricular tachycardia (VT) or premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) that occur for unknown reasons and are not related to structural heart disease.
In this study, we will compare the quality of life in veterans having ICD who attend the ICD support groups to those who do not. We ask them to answer a set of quality of life questionnaires at baseline and then at 3,6,9 and 12 month visits. These questionnaires would be analyzed to assess if attending support groups made a difference. These results will be compared to a similar study done at Emory University on non veterans.
Patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) undergo catheter ablation. During the ablation procedure, the heart is mapped to determine areas of heart muscle damage. The heart scarring areas are often the source of the VT. Delayed enhancement CT has recently been used to determine areas of scarring . This study is to determine if the areas of damaged heart muscle mapped with the delayed enhancement CT correlate with the same areas that are determined during the catheter ablation.
The aim of this study is to assess the role of ablation in appropriate ICD interventions reduction in patients with coronary artery disease. The group will consist of 200 patients with implanted ICD and appropriate intervention in the 3 months prior to enrollment. The patients will be randomized into ablation arm and conventional treatment. Number of appropriate ICD interventions is the primary endpoint of this study. All patients will have control follow-up visits every 3 months. The follow-up will be based on ICD memory.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether intravenous amiodarone has less cardiac significant adverse events compared to intravenous procainamide in the acute treatment of haemodynamically well tolerated wide QRS tachycardia, the majority of them of probably ventricular origen.
This is a randomized, prospective clinical trial comparing 2 different types of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads in children and patients with congenital heart disease. ICD lead survival in this patient group is particularly suboptimal, and lead extraction is technically difficult and carries a substantial morbidity risk. Recently, improved ICD lead designs have been released and are currently being utilized in patients. The main aim of the study is to determine if either type of lead performs better in terms of implantation electrical characteristics, long-term survival without breaking, and ease of extractability.