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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 9 January 2023
Main ID:  NCT02837445
Date of registration: 08/07/2016
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: BackBeat Medical Inc
Public title: Moderato System: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial Ver 1.1
Scientific title: Clinical Evaluation of Safety and Effectiveness of the BackBeat Medical Moderato System in Patients With Hypertension: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial
Date of first enrolment: July 12, 2016
Target sample size: 170
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02837445
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Austria Belgium Czech Republic Czechia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland
United Kingdom
Contacts
Name:     Karl-Heinz Kuck, Prof. MD
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Affiliation:  Asklepios Klinik St. Georg
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Subject requires an implant or replacement a of dual chamber pacemaker

- Stable (at least one month) hypertension treatment with at least 1 anti-hypertensive
drug, which is anticipated to be maintained for 7 months.

- Average day time (7AM-10PM) ambulatory systolic blood pressure = 130 mmHg and office
blood pressure =140 mmHg.

- Subject lives in the proximity of the study center, which permits compliance with
study visits for at least 7 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Known secondary cause of HTN.

- Average ambulatory or office systolic BP > 195 mmHg.

- Permanent atrial fibrillation.

- History of significant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation/flutter burden (defined as >25%
of beats).

- Cardiac ejection fraction <50%.

- Symptoms of heart failure, NYHA Class II or greater.

- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy or inter-ventricular septal
thickness = 15 mm.

- Subject is on dialysis.

- Subject has an estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate < 30 ml/min/1.73 m²

- Prior neurological events (stroke or TIA) within the past year or events at a prior
time that has resulted in residual neurologic deficit.

- Carotid artery disease.

- Known autonomic dysfunction.

- History of clinically significant untreated ventricular tachyarrhythmia or has
experienced sudden death.

- Previous active device-based treatment for HTN.

- Existing implant, other than a pacemaker that needs replacing.

- Subject is or has the possibility of becoming pregnant and is unwilling of
contraception during the study.

- Subject is unwilling or cannot provide Informed Consent



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Bradycardia
Hypertension Resistant to Conventional Therapy
Atrioventricular Block
Intervention(s)
Device: PHC OFF
Device: PHC ON
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in average 24 hour systolic ambulatory blood pressure [Time Frame: Week 3 pre Randomization and 6 months post Randomization]
Rate of composite of major cardiac events [Time Frame: 6 months post Randomization]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
CS-03 Ver 1.1
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
nabios GmbH
Massachusetts General Hospital
MLM Medical Labs GmbH
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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