Myocardial Injury in Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices Undergoing Defibrillation Threshold Testing

NCT ID: NCT04284800

Last Updated: 2025-07-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 14 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-31

Brief Summary

Researchers are trying to determine if heart injury occurs in patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) who undergo a defibrillation threshold testing (DFT) procedure.

Detailed Description

CIED devices that deliver defibrillation can provide life-saving therapy to patients who have cardiac conditions that make them prone to develop a serious arrhythmia. Currently, there are two main CIED devices that deliver defibrillation therapy - transvenous internal cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and subcutaneous ICD. Conventional wisdom indicates that defibrillation causes myocardial injury. However, some studies including one by the present investigators have reported that external direct current cardioversion does not result in myocardial injury. There have been studies showing that ICD shocks results in myocardial injury. The concern with previous studies using transvenous ICDs is that the measurement of injury was done during DFT testing at the time of ICD implantation or when the patient came into hospital after an ICD shock. The confounder with DFT testing is that myocardial injury could have occurred during ICD implantation when the lead is screwed into the myocardium rather than during the testing. With hospitalization, the precipitating event that caused the arrhythmia stimulating the ICD discharge (e.g. an acute coronary syndrome) might also be the cause of myocardial injury. We plan to eliminate these confounders by recruiting patients who are undergoing a DFT procedure electively, remote from their ICD implantation date or clinical events.

In terms of the subcutaneous ICD implantation (in which the leads are not screwed into the myocardium), there is little data about myocardial injury when a shock is delivered. The investigators will attempt to determine if subcutaneous ICD shocks cause myocardial injury by assessing their troponin levels at the time DFT is performed during implantation.

Conditions

ICD

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients who are undergoing elective defibrillation threshold testing of their transvenous ICD or defibrillation threshold testing of the subcutaneous ICD at the time of implantation

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients under age 18
• Patients with myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass grafting or any invasive cardiac procedure in the previous six weeks
• Pregnant patients
• Patients who cannot provide informed consent because of cognitive dysfunction

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Allan S. Jaffe

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Allan S Jaffe, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

19-008297

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id