Clinical trials: Advanced Heart Failure
Heart Failure
Clinical Evaluation of HW005 Ventricular Assist System for the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure in Japan
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the HW005 System in patients listed for cardiac transplantation with refractory, advanced heart failure at risk of death.
- Trial name
- HW005 (NCT02091440)
- Testing
- Implant of the HW005 Ventricular Assist System.
- Where
- 5 sites in Japan
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure
Chronic Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation
Curing Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure
Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart muscle weakens and no longer contracts normally. Half of these patients have an irregularity of heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF).
- Trial name
- NCT00292162
- Testing
- radiofrequency ablation, ACE inhibitor - ramipril, enalapril, captopril, perindopril, lisinopril, Beta Blocker (BB) - metoprolol, bisoprolol, carvedilol
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde