BradycArdia paCemaKer With AV Interval Modulation for Blood prEssure treAtmenT

NCT ID: NCT06059638

Last Updated: 2025-12-11

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-12-27

Study Completion Date

2029-08-31

Brief Summary

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A prospective, multinational, randomized, double-blind, clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a novel atrioventricular interval modulation (AVIM) algorithm downloaded into a dual-chamber Medtronic Astra/Azure pacemaker.

Detailed Description

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The study will be conducted in three phases: 1) Screening Phase, 2) Double-blind Randomized Phase (1 year), and 3) Unblinded Phase (2 years). Patients scheduled for implantation of an Astra/Azure pacemaker, or those who already have one implanted, who also have hypertension, may be screened for inclusion into this study. Subjects meeting randomization eligibility criteria will have the investigational AVIM Therapy RAMware downloaded into the Astra/Azure pacemaker and be randomized 1:1 to either have AVIM therapy turned ON or turned OFF. All subjects will continue to receive antihypertensive drug therapy.

Conditions

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Hypertension Hypertension, Systolic Hypertension, Essential

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Treatment Group

AVIM therapy activated with continued stable antihypertensive drug therapy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Medtronic Astra/Azure DR MRI IPG with AVIM therapy Activated

Intervention Type DEVICE

Antihypertensive therapy utilizing atrioventricular interval modulation.

Control Group

AVIM therapy deactivated with continued stable antihypertensive drug therapy

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Medtronic Astra/Azure DR MRI IPG with AVIM therapy Deactivated

Intervention Type DEVICE

AVIM therapy is deactivated

Interventions

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Medtronic Astra/Azure DR MRI IPG with AVIM therapy Activated

Antihypertensive therapy utilizing atrioventricular interval modulation.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Medtronic Astra/Azure DR MRI IPG with AVIM therapy Deactivated

AVIM therapy is deactivated

Intervention Type DEVICE

Other Intervention Names

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BackBeat CNT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Patient has or is indicated for a dual-chamber pacemaker. Visit 1 can be performed within 30 days prior to a planned implant of a Medtronic Astra/Azure dual-chamber pacemaker system or at any time thereafter
2. On a stable antihypertension treatment regimen with at least 1 class of antihypertensive drug
3. Office SBP ≥135 mmHg and \<180 mmHg
4. Average 24-Hour aSBP ≥130 mmHg and \<170 mmHg

Exclusion Criteria

1. LVEF \<50%
2. NYHA Class III-IV
3. History of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within 6 months
4. Myocardial infarction (MI) within 3 months
5. Prior percutaneous or surgical coronary, carotid, or endovascular intervention within 3 months
6. Permanent atrial fibrillation
7. Mitral valve regurgitation greater than or equal to grade 3
8. Aortic stenosis with a valve area less than 1.5 cm2
9. Has an active or prior device-based anti-hypertensive treatment (e.g., renal denervation procedure, baroreflex activation therapy)
10. Has an existing active cardiac device or neurostimulator other than the recent Astra/Azure pacemaker implant
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Orchestra BioMed, Inc

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Medtronic

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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David Kandzari, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Piedmont Heart Institute

Andrea Russo, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Cooper University

Locations

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HonorHealth

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Adventist Health Glendale

Glendale, California, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Stanford

Redwood City, California, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Scripps Clinic

San Diego, California, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Sutter Valley Hospitals

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

South Denver Cardiology

Denver, Colorado, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital

Golden, Colorado, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

HCA Florida JFK Hospital

Atlantis, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Cardiovascular Research Solutions (MyCardiologist)

Celebration, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Clearwater Cardiovascular Consultants

Clearwater, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Citrus Cardiology Consultants

Crystal River, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Cardiac and Vascular Institute

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Memorial Healthcare System

Hollywood, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Baptist Health Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Baptist Health South Florida

Miami, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida

Miami Beach, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Sarasota Memorial Hospital

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Piedmont Healthcare, Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Wellstar Research Institute

Marietta, Georgia, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Luke's Idaho Cardiology

Boise, Idaho, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

West Houston Area Clinical Trial Consultants (Wichita, KS)

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Baptist Health Lexington

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Ochsner Medical Center

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Medstar Union Memorial Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Henry Ford Health

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

UMH-Sparrow Clinical Research

Lansing, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Michigan Heart

Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Health Partners Institute (Methodist Heart and Vascular Center)

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Minneapolis Heart Institute

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Washington University St. Louis

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Cooper Health System

Camden, New Jersey, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Hackensack University Medical Center

Hackensack, New Jersey, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Virtua Medical Group, P.A.

Marlton, New Jersey, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Jersey Shore University Medical Center

Neptune City, New Jersey, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Valley Hospital

Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States

Site Status TERMINATED

Lovelace Medical Center (New Mexico Heart Institute)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Northwell Health, Inc.

New Hyde Park, New York, United States

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

HCA Asheville Cardiology Associates

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Atrium Health - Sanger Heart

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

WakeMed

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Lindner Research Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

OhioHealth Corporation

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Hightower Clinical Trials

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

South Oklahoma Heart Research

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation, Inc.

Germantown, Tennessee, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Ascension St. Thomas Hospital

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Ascension Seton

Austin, Texas, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Baylor Scott & White Research Institute

Dallas, Texas, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Centra Health dba Stroobants Cardiovascular Center

Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Advocate Aurora Research Institute, LLC

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

OLV Ziekenhuis

Aalst, , Belgium

Site Status RECRUITING

Middelheim Ziekenhuis

Antwerp, , Belgium

Site Status RECRUITING

Universite Libre de Bruxelles-Erasme Hospital

Brussels, , Belgium

Site Status RECRUITING

UZ Brussel

Brussels, , Belgium

Site Status RECRUITING

UZ Leuven

Leuven, , Belgium

Site Status RECRUITING

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM)

Prague, , Czechia

Site Status RECRUITING

Na Homolce Hospital

Prague, , Czechia

Site Status RECRUITING

Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien (CCB) am AGAPLESION Markus Krankenhaus

Frankfurt, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

University Medical Centre Mannheim

Mannheim, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Saarland University Hospital

Saarbrücken, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Trier

Trier, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Semmelweis University

Budapest, , Hungary

Site Status RECRUITING

University of Debrecen

Debrecen, , Hungary

Site Status RECRUITING

Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Amsterdam, , Netherlands

Site Status RECRUITING

Maastricht UMC+

Maastricht, , Netherlands

Site Status RECRUITING

Jagiellonian University Hospital

Krakow, , Poland

Site Status RECRUITING

Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Poznaniu

Poznan, , Poland

Site Status RECRUITING

Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego

Warsaw, , Poland

Site Status RECRUITING

Silesian Center for Heart Diseases

Zabrze, , Poland

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

Badalona, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Clínico de Barcelona

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

La Paz University Hospital

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Royal Brompton

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Bartholomew's Hospital

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Thomas Hospital

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

Southampton General Hospital

Southhampton, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States Belgium Czechia Germany Hungary Netherlands Poland Spain United Kingdom

Central Contacts

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Hans-Peter Stoll, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

646-956-2161

Angela Stagg

Role: CONTACT

References

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Kalarus Z, Merkely B, Neuzil P, Grabowski M, Mitkowski P, Marinskis G, Erglis A, Kazmierczak J, Sturmberger T, Sokal A, Pluta S, Geller L, Osztheimer I, Malek F, Kolodzinska A, Mika Y, Evans SJ, Hastings HM, Burkhoff D, Kuck KH. Pacemaker-Based Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy in Patients With Hypertension: A Pilot Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Aug 17;10(16):e020492. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020492. Epub 2021 Aug 13.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34387126 (View on PubMed)

Neuzil P, Merkely B, Erglis A, Marinskis G, de Groot JR, Schmidinger H, Rodriguez Venegas M, Voskuil M, Sturmberger T, Petru J, Jongejan N, Aichinger J, Kamzola G, Aidietis A, Geller L, Mraz T, Osztheimer I, Mika Y, Evans S, Burkhoff D, Kuck KH; BackBeat Study Investigators. Pacemaker-Mediated Programmable Hypertension Control Therapy. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Dec 23;6(12):e006974. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.006974.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29275370 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CS-08

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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