Stereotactic Non-invasive Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia

Overview

STereotactic Ablative Radiosurgery of recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia in structural heart disease (STAR-VT).

Full Title of Study: “STereotactic Ablative Radiosurgery of Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia in Structural Heart Disease”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: N/A
    • Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: September 30, 2020

Detailed Description

The goal of this project is to evaluate feasibility and safety/toxicity of elimination of ventricular tachycardia (VT) associated with structural heart disease by noninvasive strategy, stereotactic radiosurgical ablation in an indication of bail-out procedure after failed catheter ablation. The arrhythmogenic substrate will be identified by imaging techniques and functionally by electroanatomic mapping and pacing. The recipients of stereotactic surgery will be patients after 2 unsuccessful catheter ablations for monomorphic VTs (one of the procedures will be performed in an expert center). The target volume for stereotactic radiosurgical ablation (single dose of 25 Gy) will be a critical region of the substrate defined by a combination of imaging and functional methods with an export of the merged image-electroanatomical map into the radiosurgery planning console. Primary endpoints will be a reduction of the burden of sustained VT, time to death or arrhythmic storm or appropriate therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for isolated VT and/or time do development of radiation toxicity (both acute and late).

Interventions

  • Procedure: 4-D navigated stereotactic radio surgical ablation
    • 4-D navigated stereotactic radio surgical ablation will be performed in patients with structural heart disease and sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia/tachycardias

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: 4-D navigated stereotactic radiosurgical ablation
    • Patients with structural heart disease and sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia/tachycardias will undergo 4-D navigated stereotactic radiosurgical ablation

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Change of sustained VT burden in three 3-month intervals
    • Time Frame: 50 months
    • Change of sustained VT burden in three 3-month intervals will be assessed. For all arrhythmic events, a 90-day post-radiosurgery blanking period will be applicable.
  • Composite endpoint of (i) all-cause death, (ii) appropriate ICD therapy (both shock and antitachycardia pacing) for VT/VF (ventricular fibrillation) or (iii) sustained VT below the detection threshold
    • Time Frame: 50 months
    • All-cause death, appropriate ICD therapy (both shock and antitachycardia pacing) for VT/VF (ventricular fibrillation) or sustained VT below the detection threshold will be observed for up to 50 months. For all arrhythmic events, a 90-day post-radiosurgery blanking period will be applicable.
  • 3. Rate of acute (<3 months) and late radiation-induced events according to CTCAE 4.0.
    • Time Frame: 53 months
    • The rate of acute (<3 months) and late radiation-induced events according to CTCAE 4.0 will be observed.

Secondary Measures

  • Composite endpoint of all-cause death and appropriate ICD shock
    • Time Frame: 50 months
    • The composite endpoint of all-cause death and appropriate ICD shock will be observed for the period of up to 50 months. For all arrhythmic events, a 90-day post-radiosurgery blanking period will be applicable.
  • Electric storm recurrence
    • Time Frame: 53 months
    • The recurrence of electric storm will be observed. For all arrhythmic events, a 90-day post-radiosurgery blanking period will be applicable.
  • Cardiovascular hospitalisations
    • Time Frame: 53 months
    • The hospitalisations due to cardiovascular indications will be observed.
  • Change in quality of life
    • Time Frame: 53 months
    • Change in quality of life will be observed using the standardised EQ-5D (5-dimension) questionnaire. EQ-5D is a standardised instrument in the form of a questionnaire developed by the EuroQol Group as a measure of health-related quality of life that can be used in a wide range of health conditions and treatments. The quality of life is assessed in five dimensions, with three levels in each dimension. The higher score the patient achieves, the better the quality of life.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patients with structural heart disease (ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, previous surgery for congenital heart disease) – Implanted ICD or CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator) – Prior ≥1 catheter ablation procedure for monomorphic VT – VT recurrence early (<12 months) after the last ablation with at least 2 episodes of recurrent VT, including 1 episode while on amiodarone (if not contraindicated) – Age ≥30 years – Signed an IRB-approved (Institutional Review Board) written informed consent Exclusion Criteria:

  • Acute myocardial infarction or recent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or cardiac surgery (<3 months) – Primary electrical disease (channelopathy) – Reversible cause of VT (e.g. drug-induced, intoxications, etc) – Pregnancy or breastfeeding – Chronic heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class IV – Serious comorbidities with presumed life expectancy less than one year – Significant peripheral artery disease precluding retrograde aortic mapping – History of chest radiotherapy

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 30 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University Hospital Ostrava
  • Collaborator
    • Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Jakub Cvek, Ass.Prof.,MD,Ing.,PhD, Study Chair, University Hospital Ostrava

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