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Myocardial InfarctionDEVELOP-VTNCT04599439

CMR Based Prediction of Ventricular Tachycardia Events in Healed Myocardial Infarction (DEVELOP-VT)

An observational study of Myocardial Infarction and Myocardial Infarction Old, run by Centro Medico Teknon at 1 site in Spain.

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Trial summary

Fibrotic tissue is known to be the substrate for the appearance of scar-related reentrant ventricular arrhythmias (VA) in chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Late gadolinium enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) has proven to be a useful technique in the non-invasive characterization of the scarred… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
How many people
1,000 participants
Where
1 siteSpain
Study dates
1 Aug 2020to 30 Sep 2025
How long will I take part?
2 Years
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: All patients with chronic (> 3 months after the index coronary event), stable ischemic heart disease, irrespectively of the LVEF, will be included.

Who may be able to join

  • Age > 18 years.
  • Chronic (> 3 months after the index coronary event), stable ischemic heart disease, irrespectively of the LVEF.
  • Life expectancy of > 1 year with a good functional status.
  • Signed informed consent.

Who cannot join

  • Age < 18 years.
  • Pregnancy.
  • Life expectancy of < 1 year, or bad functional status (NYHA IV functional class).
  • Other concomitant structural heart diseases (e.g. congenital, non-ischemic, etc.)
  • Previously documented sustained ventricular arrhythmias.
  • Impossibility or contraindications to undergo a contrast-enhanced CMR study.
  • Concomitant investigation treatments.
  • Medical, geographical and social factors that make study participation impractical, and inability to give written informed consent. Patient's refusal to participate in the study.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Spain1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Antonio Berruezo, MD, PhD

    Barcelona, 08022

    Antonio Berruezo, MD, PhD, (+34) 93 290 62 51, antonio.berruezo@quironsalud.es

    Beatriz Jáuregui, MD, (+34) 93 290 62 51, beatriz.jauregui@quironsalud.es

    Recruiting

Other trials in Spain

About this study

Fibrotic tissue is known to be the substrate for the appearance of scar-related reentrant ventricular arrhythmias (VA) in chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Late gadolinium enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) has proven to be a useful technique in the non-invasive characterization of the scarred tissue and the underlying arrhythmogenic substrate. Previous studies identified the presence of significant scarring (> 5% of the left ventricular -LV- mass) is an independent predictor of adverse outcome (all-cause mortality or appropriate ICD discharge for ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation) in patients being considered for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement. Parallelly, the presence of heterogeneous tissue channels, which correlate with voltage channels after endocardial voltage mapping of the scar, can be more frequently observed in patients suffering from sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardias (SMVT) than in matched controls for age, sex, infarct location, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, the lack of solid evidence and randomized trials make LVEF still the main decision parameter when assessing suitability for ICD implantation in primary prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD). In a recent, case-control study, we identified the border zone channel (BZC) mass as the only independent predictor for VT occurrence, after matching for age, sex, LVEF and total scar mass. This BZC mass can be automatically calculated using a commercially available, post-processing imaging platform named ADAS 3D LV (ADAS3D Medical, Barcelona, Spain), with FDA 510(k) Clearance and European Community Mark approval. Thus, CMR-derived BZC mass might be used as an automatically reproducible criterium to reclassify those patients with chronic ICM at highest risk for developing VA/SCD in a relatively short period of approx. 2 years.

In the present cohort study, we sought to evaluate the usefulness of the BZC mass measurement to predict the occurrence of VT events in a prospective, multicenter, unselected series of consecutive chronic ischemic patients without previous arrhythmia evidence, irrespectively of their LVEF.

Being tested
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Keywords
myocardial infarction, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, scar arrhythmogenicity, ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, border zone channels
Medical subject headings
Myocardial Infarction, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Tachycardia, Ventricular, Death, Sudden, Cardiac

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Cardiac magnetic resonance imagingDiagnostic test

    All patients will undergo a cardiac magnetic resonance test to calculate their border zone channel (BZC) mass. This will not be used to decide further interventions, but all the patients will be treated according to standards of care.

Study groups in NCT04599439
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
High arrhythmia riskPatients with a cardiac magnetic resonance-derived border zone channel (BZC) mass > 5.15 g will be considered at highest risk for developing ventricular arrhythmias (VA) or sudden cardiac death (SCD).
Receives: Diagnostic Test: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Low arrhythmia riskPatients with a cardiac magnetic resonance-derived border zone channel (BZC) mass < 5.15 g will be considered at lowest risk for developing ventricular arrhythmias (VA) or sudden cardiac death (SCD).
Receives: Diagnostic Test: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Ventricular arrhythmias or sudden cardiac death

    Clinical composite of cardiac death or any sustained ventricular arrhythmia after a 2-year follow-up period.

    Measured: 2 years

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Non-cardiac causes of mortality

    Death due to non-cardiac conditions

    Measured: 2 years

  2. Heart failure hospitalization rate

    Hospitalization due to decompensated heart failure

    Measured: 2 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted22 Oct 2020
  2. Study start1 Aug 2020
  3. Primary completion30 Sep 2024 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Sep 2025 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
1,000 participants (estimated)
Target duration
2 Years
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04599439
Sponsor's protocol ID
DEVELOP-VT
Acronym
DEVELOP-VT
Status last verified
Aug 2023
First submitted
17 Oct 2020
Last updated
31 Aug 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • de Bakker JM, van Capelle FJ, Janse MJ, Wilde AA, Coronel R, Becker AE, Dingemans KP, van Hemel NM, Hauer RN. Reentry as a cause of ventricular tachycardia in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease: electrophysiologic and anatomic correlation. Circulation. 1988 Mar;77(3):589-606. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.77.3.589.

    PubMed 3342490
  • Wu E, Judd RM, Vargas JD, Klocke FJ, Bonow RO, Kim RJ. Visualisation of presence, location, and transmural extent of healed Q-wave and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction. Lancet. 2001 Jan 6;357(9249):21-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)03567-4.

    PubMed 11197356
  • Schmidt A, Azevedo CF, Cheng A, Gupta SN, Bluemke DA, Foo TK, Gerstenblith G, Weiss RG, Marban E, Tomaselli GF, Lima JA, Wu KC. Infarct tissue heterogeneity by magnetic resonance imaging identifies enhanced cardiac arrhythmia susceptibility in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Circulation. 2007 Apr 17;115(15):2006-14. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.653568. Epub 2007 Mar 26.

    PubMed 17389270
  • Yan AT, Shayne AJ, Brown KA, Gupta SN, Chan CW, Luu TM, Di Carli MF, Reynolds HG, Stevenson WG, Kwong RY. Characterization of the peri-infarct zone by contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful predictor of post-myocardial infarction mortality. Circulation. 2006 Jul 4;114(1):32-9. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.613414. Epub 2006 Jun 26.

    PubMed 16801462
  • Klem I, Weinsaft JW, Bahnson TD, Hegland D, Kim HW, Hayes B, Parker MA, Judd RM, Kim RJ. Assessment of myocardial scarring improves risk stratification in patients evaluated for cardiac defibrillator implantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jul 31;60(5):408-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.02.070.

    PubMed 22835669
  • Perez-David E, Arenal A, Rubio-Guivernau JL, del Castillo R, Atea L, Arbelo E, Caballero E, Celorrio V, Datino T, Gonzalez-Torrecilla E, Atienza F, Ledesma-Carbayo MJ, Bermejo J, Medina A, Fernandez-Aviles F. Noninvasive identification of ventricular tachycardia-related conducting channels using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in patients with chronic myocardial infarction: comparison of signal intensity scar mapping and endocardial voltage mapping. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jan 11;57(2):184-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.07.043.

    PubMed 21211689
  • Moss AJ, Zareba W, Hall WJ, Klein H, Wilber DJ, Cannom DS, Daubert JP, Higgins SL, Brown MW, Andrews ML; Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II Investigators. Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction. N Engl J Med. 2002 Mar 21;346(12):877-83. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa013474. Epub 2002 Mar 19.

    PubMed 11907286
  • Bardy GH, Lee KL, Mark DB, Poole JE, Packer DL, Boineau R, Domanski M, Troutman C, Anderson J, Johnson G, McNulty SE, Clapp-Channing N, Davidson-Ray LD, Fraulo ES, Fishbein DP, Luceri RM, Ip JH; Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) Investigators. Amiodarone or an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for congestive heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 20;352(3):225-37. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa043399.

    PubMed 15659722
  • Andreu D, Ortiz-Perez JT, Fernandez-Armenta J, Guiu E, Acosta J, Prat-Gonzalez S, De Caralt TM, Perea RJ, Garrido C, Mont L, Brugada J, Berruezo A. 3D delayed-enhanced magnetic resonance sequences improve conducting channel delineation prior to ventricular tachycardia ablation. Europace. 2015 Jun;17(6):938-45. doi: 10.1093/europace/euu310. Epub 2015 Jan 23.

    PubMed 25616406
  • Andreu D, Berruezo A, Ortiz-Perez JT, Silva E, Mont L, Borras R, de Caralt TM, Perea RJ, Fernandez-Armenta J, Zeljko H, Brugada J. Integration of 3D electroanatomic maps and magnetic resonance scar characterization into the navigation system to guide ventricular tachycardia ablation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2011 Oct;4(5):674-83. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.961946. Epub 2011 Aug 31.

    PubMed 21880674
  • Zeitler EP, Al-Khatib SM, Friedman DJ, Han JY, Poole JE, Bardy GH, Bigger JT, Buxton AE, Moss AJ, Lee KL, Dorian P, Cappato R, Kadish AH, Kudenchuk PJ, Mark DB, Inoue LYT, Sanders GD. Predicting appropriate shocks in patients with heart failure: Patient level meta-analysis from SCD-HeFT and MADIT II. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2017 Nov;28(11):1345-1351. doi: 10.1111/jce.13307. Epub 2017 Aug 23.

    PubMed 28744959
  • Acosta J, Fernandez-Armenta J, Borras R, Anguera I, Bisbal F, Marti-Almor J, Tolosana JM, Penela D, Andreu D, Soto-Iglesias D, Evertz R, Matiello M, Alonso C, Villuendas R, de Caralt TM, Perea RJ, Ortiz JT, Bosch X, Serra L, Planes X, Greiser A, Ekinci O, Lasalvia L, Mont L, Berruezo A. Scar Characterization to Predict Life-Threatening Arrhythmic Events and Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: The GAUDI-CRT Study. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Apr;11(4):561-572. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2017.04.021. Epub 2017 Aug 2.

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  • Ikeda T, Yoshino H, Sugi K, Tanno K, Shimizu H, Watanabe J, Kasamaki Y, Yoshida A, Kato T. Predictive value of microvolt T-wave alternans for sudden cardiac death in patients with preserved cardiac function after acute myocardial infarction: results of a collaborative cohort study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Dec 5;48(11):2268-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.06.075. Epub 2006 Nov 9.

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  • Gatzoulis KA, Tsiachris D, Arsenos P, Antoniou CK, Dilaveris P, Sideris S, Kanoupakis E, Simantirakis E, Korantzopoulos P, Goudevenos I, Flevari P, Iliodromitis E, Sideris A, Vassilikos V, Fragakis N, Trachanas K, Vernardos M, Konstantinou I, Tsimos K, Xenogiannis I, Vlachos K, Saplaouras A, Triantafyllou K, Kallikazaros I, Tousoulis D. Arrhythmic risk stratification in post-myocardial infarction patients with preserved ejection fraction: the PRESERVE EF study. Eur Heart J. 2019 Sep 14;40(35):2940-2949. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz260.

    PubMed 31049557

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Myocardial Infarction and Myocardial Infarction Old, run by Centro Medico Teknon at 1 site in Spain.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 8 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 31 Aug 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Spain. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Antonio Berruezo, MD, PhD ((+34) 93 290 62 51, antonio.berruezo@quironsalud.es), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Ventricular arrhythmias or sudden cardiac death (time frame: 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04599439, which also lists 14 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 31 Aug 2023.

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