CARISMA : Cardiac Arrhythmias and Risk Stratification After MyoCardial Infarction

Medtronic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00145119

Medtronic_BRC_CRM_001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the incidence of tachy- and bradyarrhythmic episodes in patients with acute myocardial infarction with depressed ventricular function and to determine the predictive value of several invasive and non-invasive risk markers for life-threatening arrhythmia

Enrollment: 312 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Acute myocardial infarction (< 21 days)
• Ejection fraction <= 40 % or wall motion index <= 1.3

Exclusion criteria

• Implantable loop recorder can't be implanted within 3 weeks after MI
• NYHA class IV
• Planned or previous ICD implantation
• Planned CABG
• Severe valvular disease
• Pregnancy
• Life expectancy < 1 year for non-cardiac cause