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CompletedNCT01270646CARTO-CRTUpdated Mar 6, 2015

Impact of Intraventricular Electrical Activation in Resynchronization Therapy

A Phase 2 interventional study of Invasive mapping with CARTO3 system and Non-Invasive mapping with CardioInsight Atlas EC Mapping system in Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated and Coronary Disease, sponsored by University Hospital, Bordeaux. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-03-06.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Bordeaux · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Impact of intraventricular electrical activation in resynchronization therapy. We seek to evaluate the impact of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) on electrical activation of the Left Ventricle (LV). The first goal of the study is to evaluate if CRT is able to decrease the heterogeneity of LV activation in heart failure patients. A second goal is to evaluate the electrical determinant of clinical response to CRT using invasive and non-invasive mapping technology.

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Comprehensive study, prospective, monocentric and cohort study.

Biventricular pacing is an effective therapy to improve end stage heart failure patients, however up to 30% of patients are unresponsive to this therapy. Among others, optimization of Left Ventricle (LV) pacing site location is critical to optimize response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT). Whether a better comprehension of baseline LV electrical activation can help to determine optimal LV lead location remains to be investigated.

After informed consent patients are included in the sudy. Day 1: CRT device is implanted under general anesthesia in a conventional fashion. The coronary sinus leads will be implanted guided by the acute hemodynamic response (+(dP/dt)max) using a RADI guide wire. After device implantation, a steerable mapping catheter will be inserted in the LV cavity to build a tridimensional activation map of the LV. This map will be obtained with and without CRT. From these maps different parameters describing LV activation will be measured and compared between patients with and without CRT. Quantitative parameters: Global LV activation time (LVATG) (primary outcome); septal activation time (LVTAS); Global intra-LV dispersion time and Qualitative parameters: presence of intraLV line of block, area of late activation. Day 5±2: A non-invasive map of the LV will be recorded with the CardioInsight ® system with and without CRT. The same parameters will be measured and compared with those obtained with invasive mapping. A 3 and 6 months follow-up visit including clinical, biological evaluation (NYHA status, 6-min walking test, BNP) of the patients will be performed with an additional transthoracic echocardiography at 6 months.

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Conditions studied

  • Heart Failure
  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
  • Coronary Disease

Keywords

  • Cardiac insufficiency
  • Invasive procedure
  • Heart Failure
  • Noninvasive procedure
  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Mapping
  • Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
  • Open study
  • Cardiac Pacings, Artificial
  • Hemodynamics
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In context

Heart Failure

5,701 studies on the registry are indexed under Heart Failure; 1,220 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 18 is below the median of 72 across 3,736 interventional studies indexed under Heart Failure.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Bordeaux is the lead sponsor of 783 studies on the registry; 188 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult (aged 18 or above)
  • Sinus rhythm
  • Patient must have signed informed consent
  • Cardiac insufficiency of whatever cause (ischemic or non-ischemic)
  • Patient eligible for implantation of a ventricular resynchronization device or patient with a ventricular resynchronization device having a procedure of ventricular tachycardia ablation
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction \<35%
  • NYHA Class II to IV with optimal medical treatment
  • Patient covered by national healthcare insurance

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant woman
  • Sequel of transmural myocardial infarction
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
18 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intraventricular Electrical Activation

    Device: Invasive mapping with CARTO3 system and Non-Invasive mapping with CardioInsight Atlas EC Mapping system

Interventions

  • DeviceInvasive mapping with CARTO3 system and Non-Invasive mapping with CardioInsight Atlas EC Mapping system

    Day 1: CRT device is implanted under general anesthesia in a conventional fashion. The coronary sinus leads will be implanted guided by the acute hemodynamic response (+(dP/dt)max) using a RADI guide wire. After device implantation, a steerable mapping catheter will be inserted in the Left Ventricle (LV) cavity to build a tridimensional activation map of the LV. This map will be obtained with and without CRT. From these maps different parameters describing LV activation will be measured and compared between patients with and without CRT. Day 5±2: A non-invasive map of the LV will be recorded with the CardioInsight ® system with and without CRT. The same parameters will be measured and compared with those obtained with invasive mapping.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Evolution of the Global Left Ventricle activation time (LVATG) with and without Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT).

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number, area and location of line of conduction block in the Left Ventricle

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

  2. Area of the latest activated region of the Left Ventricle

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

  3. Number, area and location of LV region activated after the end of surface QRS

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

  4. Septal activation time (LVTAS)

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

  5. Global intra-Left Ventricular dispersion time

    Time frame: Day 1 : End of CRT device implantation

  6. Determination of the electrical parameters associated with good clinical response to CRT at 6 months.

    Time frame: 6 months after CRT device implantation

  7. Non-invasive mapping: Same criteria evaluated non-invasively using CardioInsight ® with and without Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy activated.

    Time frame: Between 3 to 7 days after CRT device implantation

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Study locations

1 site
  • Hôpital cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, Pr. Haïssaguerre's department, 3rd Floor
    Pessac, 33604, France
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References and documents

Publications

  • Huntjens PR, Ploux S, Strik M, Walmsley J, Ritter P, Haissaguerre M, Prinzen FW, Delhaas T, Lumens J, Bordachar P. Electrical Substrates Driving Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Combined Clinical-Computational Evaluation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2018 Apr;11(4):e005647. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.117.005647. PubMed 29654125 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 6, 2015, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01270646
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Bordeaux
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 5, 2011
Start date
Jan 2011
Primary completion
May 2014
Completion
Nov 2014
Last update
Mar 6, 2015

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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