ELEVATE-HFpEF Clinical Study

Description

This study will evaluate a personalized cardiac pacing rate as a treatment for symptomatic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (LVEF ≥50%). The intervention is designed to improve health status and other signs and symptoms of heart failure in patients with HFpEF. After enrollment, baseline data will be collected, and subjects will then have a pacemaker implanted. Following successful implant, and prior to pre-hospital discharge, subjects will be randomized 1:1 to one of two study groups. In the first group, subjects will have their pacemaker programmed to dual chamber pacing at a personalized cardiac pacing rate (treatment group) based on their LVEF and height. Subjects randomized to the second group will have their pacemaker programmed to receive ventricular pacing at a non-personalized rate to minimize interference with the subject’s intrinsic heart rate (control group).

Subjects will complete 2-month, 6-month, and 12-month visits where data will be collected. At the 12-month visit, the second group (control group) will also be programmed to their personalized cardiac pacing rate. Subjects will complete 14-month, 18-month, and 24-month visits where data will be collected. Following the 24-month visit, additional long-term follow-up visits will occur annually until study completion. The estimated study duration is approximately 4.5 years representing an estimated 24-month enrollment period and 18-month follow-up period.