Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) is a specialist pacemaker procedure that aims to improve the efficiency of the heartbeat. This treatment is used routinely in patients with heart failure and a delay in electrical conduction across the heart seen on the surface ECG (heart tracing). Also CRT has been seen to improve some heart failure patients with a normal electrical conduction (seen on the ECG as a narrow QRS complex). The investigators aim to see if cardiac MRI can be used to select patients with normal electrical conduction for CRT, therefore expanding the number of people who would stand to benefit from this treatment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, King's College London
London, United Kingdom
LV dP/dT during pacing
To assess LV dP/dT during different pacing modalities by intraventricular pressure wire. A dP/dT change of \>10% from baseline is a positive result.
Time frame: during temporary pacing study, approximately 2 hours
Correlation of electrical and mechanical dyssynchrony
To correlate the amount of mechanical dyssynchrony seen prior to pacing with electrical dyssynchrony measures from non-contact mapping and body surface mapping
Time frame: Data is collected prior to temporary pacing study, the post processing needed in order to correlate this data may take up to 2 months
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