Home Electrocardiogram (ECG) Monitoring After Heart Transplantation (NEW HEART)

This study is not yet open for participant recruitment.
Verified May 2011 by University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
University of California, San Francisco
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Columbia University
Information provided by:
University of California, Los Angeles
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01365806
First received: June 1, 2011
Last updated: August 2, 2011
Last verified: May 2011

June 1, 2011
August 2, 2011
August 2011
August 2014   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
number and grade of acute allograft rejection episodes [ Time Frame: within one year after transplant surgery ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01365806 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
all cause mortality [ Time Frame: one year after transplant surgery ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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Home Electrocardiogram (ECG) Monitoring After Heart Transplantation
Home ECG Monitoring to Detect Allograft Rejection Following Heart Transplantation

The long-term goal of this research is to apply novel technology for detection of donor organ (allograft) rejection to improve patient outcomes following heart transplantation. The specific goal of this study is to determine whether daily monitoring of the transplant recipient's electrocardiogram (ECG) using a simple home device with transmission to an ECG Core Laboratory would provide an early biomarker for acute rejection. Despite routine immunosuppressant drug therapy, acute rejection is common, especially within the first 6 months following transplant surgery. To detect rejection, frequent endomyocardial biopsies of heart tissue are performed. An endomyocardial biopsy is a costly and invasive procedure performed in a hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory that has associated risks. Recent evidence suggests that acute allograft rejection causes delays in ventricular repolarization resulting in a longer QT interval on the ECG. The specific aims of the study are to: 1) determine whether an increase in the QT interval during the first 6 months following heart transplant is a sensitive and specific biomarker for acute rejection; and 2) determine the timing of QT interval increases relative to biopsy-diagnosed stages of mild/moderate/severe rejection. The potential benefit of finding a simple ECG biomarker of allograph rejection that could be measured at home is that it might yield earlier detection of rejection, allow more timely therapy and reduce mortality from acute allograft rejection.

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Observational
Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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Non-Probability Sample

adult heart transplant recipients from recruitment sites (Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Medical Center; University of California, Los Angeles; and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  • Cardiac Transplant Rejection
  • Qt Interval, Variation in
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Doering LV, Hickey K, Pickham D, Chen B, Drew BJ. Remote noninvasive allograft rejection monitoring for heart transplant recipients: study protocol for the novel evaluation with home electrocardiogram and remote transmission (NEW HEART) study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2012 Mar 2;12:14.

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Not yet recruiting
400
June 2015
August 2014   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • ≥18 years of age
  • first heart transplant surgery
  • not enrolled in other research studies that conflict with study design

Exclusion Criteria:

  • clinically unstable at time of enrollment (i.e. clinical symptoms of allograph impairment)
Both
18 Years and older
No
Contact: Barbara Drew, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA 415-476-4302 barbara.drew@ucsf.edu
United States
 
NCT01365806
1R01NR012003-01A1, 1R01NR012003-01A1
Yes
Lynn Doering(Co-PI), University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Columbia University
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Principal Investigator: Barbara Drew, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator: Lynn Doering, RN, DNSc University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
May 2011

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