Trial Objective: To test the efficacy of distal ventricular pacing for pressure gradient reduction across the site of mid-cavity obstruction.Disease area: CardiomyopathyStatus: Actively recruiting Chief Investigator: Sam MohiddinSponsor: Barts Health NHS TrustFunder: NIHR - Fellowship AwardNCT Ref: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03450252
There are currently very few treatment options beyond taking medicine for inherited cardiomyopathy, which may not help in reducing symptoms. We have developed a new technique which uses a cardiac pacemaker to try to reduce obstruction and abnormally high pressures within the heart and think this may relieve symptoms. We want to test whether the pacemaker can reduce the abnormally high pressures within the heart.
We know, from a group of patients who have already had this experimental procedure, that it improves some patients’ symptoms a lot, other patients’ not so much, and some patients’ not at all. Because of this, we need to see if there is a benefit to the patient from having the pacemaker set up in a certain way.
Patients taking part in the Pacemaker in HCM study will experience both a treatment period (active pacing) and a non-treatment period (back-up pacing). We do not know which treatment method is generally better, which is why we are conducting the study. Once the patient has experienced both settings, we can compare how they felt. At the end of the 12 months, the patient will confirm which of the two six month periods they felt better in. The doctor will then reveal to the patient which 6 months was the active pacing and which was the back-up pacing.
25 patients, taking place at the Barts Heart Centre, London over a 12-month period.
Dr Sam MohiddinEmail: saidi.mohiddin@nhs.net
Dr James MalcolmsonTelephone: +44(0) 7816170672Email: james.malcolmson@nhs.net