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Filter by:The Prospective Cardiac Ultrasound Imaging Study is a single center, single arm, feasibility study. The study aims at collecting cardiac ultrasound data from patients diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia, during rest and short breath hold sequences. This study is part of the engineering studies linked to the CardioKit-Minimum Viable Product project. The CardioKit prototype used in the study can monitor cyclical heart-beat motion, cyclical respiratory motion and non-cyclical heart position changes while the patient is lying in supine position.
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the factors which determine how well ventricular tachycardia (VT) is tolerated. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. What impact does coronary artery disease have on the ability for a patient to tolerate VT? 2. Does treatment of coronary artery disease with stents improve the tolerability of VT? Participants who are undergoing a clinically indicated coronary angiogram or coronary angioplasty procedure will have measurements of blood pressure, coronary pressure and coronary flow made during pacing at a range of heart rates.
This post-approval study (PAS) is designed to provide continued clinical evidence to confirm the long-term safety and effectiveness of the FlexAbilityTM Ablation Catheter, Sensor EnabledTM (FlexAbility SE) for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia in a post-market environment. This is a prospective, single arm, open-label, multi-center, observational study.
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a life-threatening cardiac rhythm disturbance which leads to sudden cardiac death (SCD), ventricular fibrillation, electrical storm, hemodynamic collapse, and syncope. VT patients with cardiomyopathy (diseased/scarred cardiac muscle) have the highest risk of SCD (<1-4%) and recurrent VTs (15-35%). Although an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) is the most effective treatment option to prevent SCD, it does not eliminate it. Without VT prevention, recurrent VT and ICD shocks may increase the risk of heart failure and death. The primary objective is to determine the optimal treatment strategy to maximize event-free survival among cardiomyopathy patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) by the creation of a prospective, multicenter, longitudinal cohort. Also, the investigators will evaluate the epidemiology of VT, adherence to guidelines, safety, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of current treatment options for secondary prevention of VT in the real-world Canadian VT population.
STEP ICD is a premarket, exploratory, early feasibility, interventional study designed to evaluate the preliminary safety and performance of the Investigational Devices. The study is intended to inform the final device design which will be further evaluated in traditional feasibility and /or pivotal clinical investigations. The primary safety objective is to characterize safety of the EV-ICD Lead through 3 months post-implant. The primary performance objective is to characterize sensing and conversion of induced VF with the EV-ICD Lead up to 3 months post-implant.
Patients with ischemic ventricular tachycardia (VT) are frequently treated with radiofrequency catheter ablation. The efficacy of catheter ablation is limited for various reasons; one of those being incomplete myocardial and inhomogenous scar tissue damage due to suboptimal ablation lesions. The aim of our study is to reassess initially ablated endocardial areas in a repeated mapping procedure. Initial lesion parameters will be studied in areas with conduction recovery at repeated mapping procedure. Also, VT inducibility will be correlated to the extent and characteristics of areas with recovered conduction.
The goal of this registry database is to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of functional ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation using SENSE protocol in patients with ischaemic VT. Mortality and the need for ICD therapies at 12 months post-ablation will be compared with propensity-matched controls undergoing substrate-based ablation alone.
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an abnormal rhythm arising from the bottom chambers (ventricles) of the heart. The hearts of most patients who develop VT have been previously damaged by a myocardial infarction (heart attack) or other heart muscle diseases (cardiomyopathies). The damage produces scar or fatty deposits that conduct electrical impulses slowly allowing VT to occur. Recurrent episodes of VT can compromise heart function and increase mortality. VT is prevented by special drugs but these are not always effective and can have many side effects. Most patients with VT will also have a specialised device called an implantable defibrillator (ICD) implanted. The ICD treats VT by either stimulating the heart rapidly or delivering a shock to it. ICDs are very effective but the shocks are painful and have a big impact on quality of life. If VT occurs despite optimal drug treatment, patients undergo an invasive procedure called catheter ablation. Here, wires are passed into the heart from the blood vessels in the leg and the damaged heart muscle causing the VT is identified whilst the heart is in VT. An electrical current is passed down the wire making its tip heat up allowing discrete burns (ablation) to be placed inside the heart. The ablated heart muscle doesn't conduct electricity which stops the VT and prevents it recurring. Some patients are so frail that ablation cannot be performed safely. A recent clinical trial has shown that VT can be treated in such patients using radiotherapy, which is usually used to treat tumours with high energy radiation. This approach is non-invasive, painless and requires no sedation or anaesthesia. This study will test whether VT can be successfully treated using stereotactic ablative radiotherapy. This can deliver high dose radiotherapy very precisely, whilst minimising the risk of damage to healthy tissues.
Vistag SurPoint is a proprietary module that generates a numerical tag index which can be used as multiparametric lesion quality marker to guide ablation in the clinical setting for ablation of atrial arrhythmias. SurPoint tag index has studied to guide ablation of ventricular arrhythmias, such as premature ventricular complexes, but its effectiveness and safety for ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in patient with Ischemic and Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathies is not well established. In this single center prospective observation registry, a ventricular ablation strategy utilizing radiofrequency delivery duration cut off determined by a maximum Surpoint index value of 550 will be compared to conventional operator determined duration of radiofrequency delivery based on combination of time (i.e. 30, 60, 90, and 120 seconds), magnitude of impedance drop, attenuation of abnormal electrograms, and achieving non-capture with high-output pacing after ablation. The Surpoint Tag Index Ablation group will be matched with a control group of patients undergoing VT ablation using the conventional time-based radiofrequency strategy and the patients in this group will be selected using propensity matching based on relevant baseline patient and clinical characteristic variables. Primary outcomes of interest: Recurrence of sustained ventricular tachycardia or Internal Cardiac Defibrillator Therapy. Secondary outcomes of interest: Hospitalization for ventricular tachycardia, repeat ablation procedures, all-cause mortality, acute procedural complications, rate of steam pops during ablation procedures Follow up: Up to 24 months after ablation procedure. Follow up will be obtained by office visits and device interrogation reports.
Three-arm randomized clinical trial comparing two strategies of TcMS to sham stimulation in patients with VT storm. The hypothesis of the study is that TcMS will reduce the burden of VT in the 24 hours after randomization compared to sham stimulation and that TcMS with theta burst stimulation (TBS) will be more effective at reducing VT burden than low frequency TcMS.