Study of Cardiac PET/CT Imaging to Guide Ablation Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
Stopped early · Early Phase 1
Conditions studied: Ventricular Tachycardia
In brief
Imaging is to be performed prior to procedure using positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (PET/CT), after a special dye is injected. The scans are going to be merged with other cardiac scans when doing the ablation procedure to correlate anatomy with physiology.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02962076
- Run by
- Khaled Awad, MD
- People needed
- 11
- Starts
- 2020-09-21
- Expected to finish
- 2024-10-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-12-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Clinical indication for ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation (at least one clinical episode of sustained VT) despite antiarrhythmic drug therapy, or if the patient does not wish to be on one
- Ischemic or nonischemic cardiomyopathy
- Sustained monomorphic VT
You may not qualify if…
- Right ventricular VT
- Polymorphic VT or ventricular fibrillation (VF) being the sole detected clinical arrhythmia
- Patient is unable to sign informed consent
- Recent myocardial infarction less than 30 days
- Recent ablation for ventricular tachycardia less than 30 days
- Patient is unwilling or unable to cooperate with the study
- Prosthetic mitral or aortic valve
- General contraindications to VT ablation, e.g., major contraindication to anticoagulation therapy, known presence of left ventricular thrombus, reversible causes of VT or VF
- General contraindications to PET imaging, e.g., pregnancy or lactation
- General contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging or to the administration of gadolinium.
- Contraindication to the placement of hemodynamic support devices, i.e. the presence of mechanical valves or lack of adequate vascular access
Where it is running
- Mercy Hospital St. Louis — St Louis, Missouri, United States
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