Clinical trials: Left Ventricular Septal Pacing
Left Ventricular Dysfunction
PROTECT-PACE STUDY - The Protection of Left Ventricular Function During Right Ventricular Pacing
This study will be done in patients who require the implantation of a cardiac pacemaker (an electronic device that controls the heartbeat) for complete heart block (a heart rhythm abnormality resulting in a slow heart beat).
- Trial name
- PROTECT-PACE (NCT00461734)
- Testing
- RV lead placement site
- Where
- 18 sites in Australia, New Zealand and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 248 people
- Sponsor
- Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure
Heart Failure
A Pilot Study of Interventricular Septal Puncture for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to Treat Heart Failure
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is known to result in significant improvement in the symptoms of selected patients with heart failure, and to reduce hospital admission and death rates in these patients.
- Trial name
- LV-CONSEPT (NCT01818765)
- Testing
- Trans-ventricular-septal placement of LV pacing lead, Pre-procedure speckle-tracking echocardiography, Acute response assessment
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust