Patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF), a rapid beating of the upper heart chambers, can undergo catheter ablation to control or eliminate their rhythm disorder. The radiopharmceutical 123I-mIBG (Adreview™ GE Healthcare) has been introduced to visually identify cardiac innervation. This study will use non-invasive evaluation using MIBG imaging to study if we can predict baseline autonomic characteristics in patients with AF, as well as clinical outcome based on post ablation imaging
This is a single centre, interventional, Phase III trial using the radiopharmaceutical 123I-mIBG for imaging. In this pilot study, up to 7 eligible participants will undergo pre-ablation and post ablation nuclear imaging. The major objective of our study is to evaluate the relationship between non-invasive imaging of cardiac innervation with invasive mapping of atrial innervation as determined by High Frequency Stimulation (standard of care to physiologically document autonomic function). This will be followed by the clinical ablation procedure, as discussed by the cardiac electrophysiologist, consisting of pulmonary vein (PV) antral isolation, inclusive of regions of autonomic innervation, and sites showing complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE) when clinically indicated. The secondary objective is to determine the relationship between catheter ablation of AF and non-invasive nuclear imaging of cardiac innervation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
5
A single injection of the 123I-mIBG will be given. Imaging will be done twice following injection: at 0120 minutes and 3-5 hours. The timing is dependent on the specific participant and imaging characteristics. The imaging is done for approximately 24 minutes at each time point.
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Concordance
The concordance of the 123I-mIBG visual images with the identification of autonomic sites as determined by high frequency stimulation (HFS).
Time frame: 2 years
Observation of effects
The effects of radiofrequency ablation of AF on cardiac innervation will be observed visually on 123l-mlBG images and clinically with participant follow up.
Time frame: 2 years
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