ippon ICD Plus Pharmacologic Option Necessity
- Conditions
- patients with spontaneous episode(s) of sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation associated with organic heart disease
- Registration Number
- JPRN-C000000381
- Lead Sponsor
- IPPON Investigators
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
Not provided
The exclusion criteria for this study are when patients have the following: (1) idiopathic VT/VF; (2) Brugada syndrome; (3) congenital long QT syndrome; (4) an incessant form of VT/VF; (5) VT/VF resulting from a transient or reversible disorder such as acute myocardial infarction, electrolyte imbalance or drugs; (5) are aged less than 20 years old; (6) are taking class I or class III drugs (including amiodarone), which cannot be discontinued; (7) a life ecpectancy less than 2 years; (8) congestive heart failure with a New York Heart Association (NYHA) cardiac function class IV or are candidates for cardiac transplantation; (9) bradycardia less than 50 beats/min.; (10) second- or third-degree atrioventricular block; (11) corrected QT interval equal to or longer than 480ms; (12) significant pulmonary fibrosis, diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLco) < 60% ro high molecular weight mucin-like antigen (KL-6) >1,000 U/ml; (14) more than 2 episodes of hemodynamically unstable sustained VT or VF per month before the ICD implantation; (15) are condidates for curative procedures for VT/VF such as catheter ablation or cryosurgery; (16) unstable angina pectoris; (17) DFT at the ICD implantation of more than 20 J; and (18) are pregnant (or have the possibility of), or are breast feeding.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary End-Point: The primary end-points of this study are: (1) an appropriate ICD therapy; and (2) an alteration of the assigned treatment because of its harmful effect and/or frequent ICD therapy deliveries (more than 3 sessions of ICD first therapy within 24h). The latter one includes termination of amiodarone or a transition to an alternative antiarrhythmic drug (class I or class III) in the amiodarone group, or curative interventions such as catheter ablation or cryosurgery in either group
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary End-Points: The secondary end-points of this study are: (1) total death; (2) arrhythmia death; (3) cardiac death; (4) re-hospitalization aiming to control VT/VF; (5) impairment of patient's QOL; (6) deterioration of heart failure; (7) abnormal increase in the DFT (less than a 10J safety margin); (8) inappropriate ICD therapy; or (9) occurrence of side-effects from amiodarone