Could a pacemaker boost exercise capacity in adults with a rare heart condition?
NCT ID NCT05524324
First seen Jun 30, 2026 · Last updated Jul 01, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial investigates whether cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) — a special type of pacing — can improve how far people can walk in six minutes. It includes adults with congenital heart disease where the right ventricle pumps blood to the body (systemic right ventricle). Participants already have a CRT device implanted and will be randomly assigned to have it active or inactive for three months, then switch. The study measures exercise capacity, oxygen use, and heart function.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- cardiac resynchronization therapy (biventricular pacing device)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could show that CRT improves daily function and heart efficiency in adults with this specific heart condition.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small crossover trial with 26 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The device may not improve symptoms for everyone, and there are standard risks of pacing therapy.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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26 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2022
- Finished
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Apr 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * systemic right ventricle (SRV), * CRT-P or CRT-D device implanted for at least 1 month, * Age ≥18 years old, * One of the two following CRT indications: * NYHA II-IV, right ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 35% and spontaneous QRS duration ≥ 150 ms Or * NYHAI-IV, atrioventricular conduction disorders with ventricular pacing \> 40% (regardless right ventricular ejection fraction). * Affiliation to a french social security system (beneficiary or legal) * Informed and signed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy or breastfeeding * Women of childbearing potential who do not have a negative pregnancy test and do not use one of the following methods of birth control: hormonal contraception or intrauterine device or bilateral tubal occlusion * Patient benefiting from a measure of legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, under judicial safeguard, activated future protection mandate and family authorization), * Cardiac surgery during the last 3 months or planned during the next 6 months, * Percutaneous structural cardiac intervention planned during the next 6 months, * Persistent atrial arrhythmia with catheter ablation planned during the next 6 months, * Acute congestive heart failure, * Dysfunction of at least one CRT device lead that compromise biventricular pacing, * Patient on AME * Current participation in another interventional clinical study or being in the exclusion period at the end of a previous study.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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AP-HP, Pitié-Salpétrière
Paris, France
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Ap-Hp Hegp
Paris, 75015, France
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CHU de Caen
Caen, France
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CHU de Lille
Lille, France
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CHU de Montpellier
Montpellier, France
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CHU de Nantes
Nantes, France
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CHU de Rouen
Rouen, France
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CHU de Toulouse
Toulouse, France
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CHU de Tours
Tours, France
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Clinique Pasteur
Toulouse, France
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Hôpital La Timone
Marseille, France
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Hôpital Louis Pradel
Lyon, France
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Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue
Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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