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TerminatedNCT00524862

Standard Drug Therapy vs. Implanted Defibrillator for Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death

Selective Strategy to Manage Arrhythmia Risk and Therapy With ICD

Status
Terminated
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
5,000 (estimated)
Sponsor
Unity Health Toronto · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Recent ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines recommend prophylactic ICD implantation in most patients with coronary heart disease and LVEF \< 40%. Current Canadian guidelines recommend ICDs for primary prophylaxis in CAD patients with LVEF \< 30% (Class I recommendation). There are very sparse data to recommend ICD implantation in patients with EF between 30 and 40 %. This study will randomize patients with CHD and an EF between 30 and 40% to ICD therapy vs. No ICD therapy. The primary outcome is mortality and the study is powered as a non-inferiority trial to test the hypothesis that mortality in patients with no ICD is not more than 1% greater (absolute yearly increase) than patients receiving an ICD.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DRUGOptimized medical therapyBeta Blockers, ACE inhibitor or ARB, loop diuretics and/or spironolactone as appropriate, statin if indicated, aspirin and/or warfarin if indicated
DEVICEImplantable Cardioverter Defibrillatoran implanted device, called a defibrillator, which monitors heart rhythm and treats life-threatening rhythms accordingly

Timeline

Start date
2007-10-01
Primary completion
2011-04-01
Completion
2011-04-01
First posted
2007-09-05
Last updated
2015-07-31

Locations

10 sites across 1 country: Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00524862. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.