Status:

UNKNOWN

DECIDE-HF: Heart Rate Variability in Heart Failure Patients

Lead Sponsor:

Medtronic BRC

Conditions:

Systolic Heart Failure

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether heart rate variability-like parameters are related to changes in the disease status of a subject that suffers from a disease that decreases the pumpin...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Subject has signed and dated the study-specific informed consent form
  • Subject is 18 years of age or older
  • Subject is expected to remain available for follow-ups
  • Subject is able and willing to comply with the protocol requirements
  • Subject has predominant Normal Sinus Rhythm
  • Subject has systolic Heart Failure and is at the moment of enrollment in NYHA class II or III and has an ejection fraction of less then 40%
  • Subject has had a HF-related hospitalization in the past 12 months

Exclusion

  • Subject needs permanent atrial pacing (\> 10%)
  • Subject has intermittent 2nd or intermittent 3rd degree block
  • Subject has persistent or permanent AF
  • Subject has Long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, Jervell and Lange- Nielsen syndrome, Romano-Ward syndrome, Andersen-Tawil syndrome or Timothy's syndrome
  • Subject has had recent (\<2 months) acute coronary syndrome
  • Subject has had recent (\<2 months) revascularization
  • Subject has a pending cardiac transplant or revascularization
  • Subject has severe stenotic valvular heart disease
  • Subject has severe pulmonary (forced expiratory volume in 1 s \< 1 L) hepatic or renal (plasma creatinine \> 0.2 mmol/L) disease
  • Subject is participating in another study that may affect the results of this study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2009

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 1 2013

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00949676

Start Date

September 1 2009

End Date

December 1 2013

Last Update

September 23 2013

Active Locations (5)

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Antwerp, Belgium

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Kiel, Germany

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Munich, Germany

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Tübingen, Germany