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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00180336
Date of registration: 12/09/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Boston Scientific Corporation
Public title: Safety and Efficacy Study of RENEWAL 4 AVT
Scientific title: CONTAK RENEWAL 4 AVT Field Following
Date of first enrolment: July 2004
Target sample size: 170
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00180336
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2/Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Germany
Contacts
Name:     Johannes Sperzel, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Kerckhoff Klinik Bad Nauheim (Germany)
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Indications for the device

- Availability for follow-up at an approved Field Following center, at the protocol
defined intervals

- Willing and capable of undergoing a device implant and participating in all testing
associated with this clinical investigation

- Prescribed to stable optimal pharmacologic therapy for HF

- Age 18 or above, or of legal age to give informed consent specific to national law

- Able to provide documented evidence of one or more episodes of AF/AT within 12 months
of implantation NOTE: Guidant recommends anticoagulation therapy per physician
discretion.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Right bundle branch block morphology

- Life expectancy of less than six months due to other medical conditions

- Expectation of a heart transplant during the period of the study

- Patients with or who are likely to receive a mechanical tricuspid valve during the
course of the study

- Have a preexisting unipolar pacemaker that will not be explanted/abandoned

- Have an atrial tachyarrhythmia that is permanent (i.e., does not terminate
spontaneously and cannot be terminated with medical intervention) within 180 days
prior to enrollment

- Have a known hypersensitivity to dexamethasone acetate

- Enrolled in any other study, including drug investigation

- Women that are pregnant or planning to become pregnant

- A Cerebral Vascular Event/ Transient Ischemic Attack within 12 months of implantation

- During the four weeks prior to implantation, a patient experiences an episode of AF
>= 48 hours in duration and was not anticoagulated for at an adequate therapeutic
level (INR >= 2.0) for the 4 weeks prior to enrollment



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Atrial Flutter
Heart Failure
Atrial Fibrillation
Ventricular Fibrillation
Tachycardia
Intervention(s)
Device: CRT-D
Primary Outcome(s)
System Complication-Free Rate at 6 months
Effectiveness of LV Only/LV Offset at 6 months
Secondary Outcome(s)
NYHA at 6 months
Six-minute walk at 6 months
LVESD at 6 months
QOL at 6 months
Secondary ID(s)
Clinicals0004
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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