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Could a faster pacemaker setting help heart amyloidosis patients feel better?
NCT ID NCT07413081
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether increasing the pacemaker's lower rate from 60 to 80 beats per minute improves quality of life and daily function in people with ATTR cardiac amyloidosis. The heart in this condition is stiff and depends on a faster heart rate to pump blood. Thirty-four participants will try both settings in a crossover design to see which works better.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- pacemaker rate adjustment
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple way to improve daily function and well-being for people with cardiac amyloidosis who have a pacemaker.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage trial with only 34 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The benefit seen in similar conditions may not hold true for amyloidosis.
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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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About 34 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Feb 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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: * ATTR-CM defined as one of the following: * a.Positive cardiac biopsy for ATTR amyloidosis * b.Positive extra-cardiac biopsy for ATTR amyloidosis AND cardiac involvement demonstrated by CMR or echocardiography * c.Grade 2-3 uptake on DPD-scintigraphy AND negative serum free light chain and negative urine and serum immunofixation AND cardiac involvement demonstrated by CMR or echocardiography * Ongoing treatment with a transthyretin stabilizer or silencer OR considered not to be a candidate for these therapies with no planned initiation during the study period. * NYHA functional class II-III * Pre-existing pacemaker and either: * a.Atrial pacing with minimal RV pacing (\<2%), or * b.His bundle or left bundle branch area pacing, or * c.Biventricular pacing, or * d.Ongoing RV pacing with a high degree of RV pace (\>80%) * NT-proBNP \>600 ng/L * Age ≥18 years * Ability and willingness to provide written informed consent * Pacing \>80% with a programmed lower rate of 60 (AAI/CSP/CRT/RV-pace) Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to perform the 6-minute walk test. * Planned coronary revascularization, ablation of atrial flutter/fibrillation, or any severe (obstructive or regurgitant) valvular heart disease expected to require intervention during the trial in the investigator's opinion. * MI, unstable angina, coronary revascularization (percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)), ablation of atrial flutter/fibrillation, cardioversion, valve repair/replacement, hospitalization for decompensated heart failure or cardiac resynchronisation therapy within 12 weeks prior to enrollment. * Planned upgrade to CRT or conduction system pacing in patients with RV pacing. * More than moderate valvular stenosis or regurgitation * Inability of the patient, in the opinion of the investigator, to understand and/or comply with procedures and/or follow-up OR any conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, may render the patient unable to complete the study * Presence of any other disease than heart failure with a life expectancy of \< 1year in the investigators opinion * Enrollment in other interventional device or drug trials during the study period, with the exception of open label extension studies * Listed for cardiac transplantation * Initiation of SGLT2-inhibitor or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist within 4 weeks prior to enrollment * Initiation or change in loop diuretic therapy within 4 weeks prior to enrollment
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
9 sites in 2 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark
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Academic University Hospital
Uppsala, Sweden
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Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
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Linköping University Hospital
Linköping, Sweden
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Norrland University Hospital
Umeå, Sweden
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Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Skane University Hospital
Lund, Sweden
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Skellefteå Hospital
Skellefteå, Sweden
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