Mechanical Alternans Study

Completed

Conditions studied: Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mechanical alternans (alternating strong and weak heart beats with a constant beat-to-beat interval), can be used to predict malignant ventricular arrhythmias, requiring defibrillation or appropriate ICD therapies, and to predict progression of heart failure and death.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01557465

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

134

Starts

2009-11-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• structural heart disease
• ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy

You may not qualify if…

• pregnancy
• age < 18 years old

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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