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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00000609
Date of registration: 27/10/1999
Primary sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Public title: Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT)
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: May 1997
Target sample size:
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00000609
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:   Kerry Lee
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Duke University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Patients with New York Heart Association class II or class III heart failure and ejection
fraction less than or equal to 35%.



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: 90 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Arrhythmia
Cardiovascular Diseases
Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Heart Failure
Heart Failure, Congestive
Intervention(s)
Device: defibrillators, implantable
Drug: amiodarone
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
112
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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