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The purpose of this study is to determine whether mechanical alternans (alternating strong and weak heart beats with a constant beat-to-beat interval), can be used to predict malignant ventricular arrhythmias, requiring defibrillation or appropriate ICD therapies, and to predict progression of heart failure and death.
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| sudden arrhythmic death | appropriate ICD therapy due to fast ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, or sudden cardiac death | 5 years |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| cardiovascular mortality | 5 years | |
| all-cause death | 5 years | |
| appropriate ICD therapies |
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Patients with structural heart disease, ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopahty
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24585716 | Result | Kim R, Cingolani O, Wittstein I, McLean R, Han L, Cheng K, Robinson E, Brinker J, Schulman SS, Berger RD, Henrikson CA, Tereshchenko LG. Mechanical alternans is associated with mortality in acute hospitalized heart failure: prospective mechanical alternans study (MAS). Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2014 Apr;7(2):259-66. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000958. Epub 2014 Mar 1. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D006333 | Heart Failure |
| ID | Term |
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| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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either ICD shock or antitachycardia pacing due to ventricular arrhythmia
| 5 years |
| composite heart failure endpoint | pump-failure death, or heart transplantation, or heart failure hospitalization, whichever came first | 5 years |