ST-segment Elevation as an AF Endophenotype (Proc)

ST-segment Elevation With Procainamide as an ECG Endophenotype of AF

The purpose of this study is to look for a similarity in people's genes that may help understand which people could benefit from certain drugs for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Procainamide

Detailed Description

Current drug therapies to suppress AF are incompletely and unpredictably effective and carry significant (albeit generally small) risks of serious adverse effects, including drug-induced long QT syndrome (diLQTS), other forms of proarrhythmia, increased mortality through uncertain mechanisms, and extracardiac toxicity. Identification of clinical and genetic subtypes of AF will permit stratification of therapeutic approaches and thereby facilitate the practice of personalized medicine. Furthermore, limited success of drug therapy and increase in drug toxicity in AF is probably because the arrhythmia represents a final common pathway of multiple initiating mechanisms, including some that are genetically-defined.

Identifying specific intermediate phenotypes ("endophenotypes") associated with defined clinical courses in AF represents a potential method to systematically subtype patients by underlying mechanism and represents a much-needed clinical advance. Clinical endophenotypes that have been studied include atrial fibrillatory rate, prolonged signal-averaged P-wave duration, and biomarker profiles. The endophenotype we will study here is right precordial ST segment elevation, seen not only in Brugada syndrome (BrS) (where it is unmasked by sodium channel blocking drugs) but also commonly in early-onset ('lone') AF and in patients with AF-associated rare variants in genes encoding the cardiac sodium channel α- or β-subunits. Taken together these data suggest the hypothesis to be tested in this study, that variants in multiple genes can culminate in a similar AF-prone substrate by reducing sodium current that can be identified by screening for baseline or manifest right precordial ST segment elevation endophenotype after sodium channel block with intravenous procainamide.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 161
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
      • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age or older
• Undergoing AF ablation at Vanderbilt or MGH

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients taking membrane active anti-arrhythmic drugs with sodium channel blocking properties (amiodarone, dronedarone, flecainide, propafenone) at the time of the ablation
• Patients with a history of Brugada syndrome or type 1 Brugada ECG pattern on the baseline ECG
• Patients with a history of drug-induced torsades de pointes
• Patients with a known history of hypersensitivity to procainamide, procaine or related drugs
• Patients with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus and myasthenia gravis
• Patients with a history of second degree AV block (Mobitz type II) or third degree AV block
• Women of child-bearing potential unless post-menopausal, surgically sterile, or have a negative pregnancy test day on the day of procedure
• Patients with dual chamber pacemakers or implantable defibrillators requiring ventricular pacing (uninterpretable ECG)
• Patients unable to give informed consent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
OTHER: AF with ST changes on ECG; Those patients with ST segment or J Point elevation on electrocardiogram. Can be on initial screening electrocardiogram or on electrocardiograms during procainamide infusion. These subjects will harbor cardiac sodium channel gene variants.	Drug: Procainamide; One time intravenous infusion of Procainamide administered over 30 minutes. Dosage is calculated as 10mg/kg based on subject's ideal body weight.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
ST Segment Elevation ≥ 1.5 mm in the Right Precordial Leads (V1-V3), Either at Baseline or Manifested After Sodium Channel Block With Intravenous Procainamide	Number of participants who demonstrated ST-segment elevation >1.5mm in the right precordial leads (V1-V3) either at baseline or after sodium channel block with intravenous procainamide infusion.	During (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes after initiating) or up to 15 minutes after completion of intravenous procainamide infusion

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Collaborators: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Dawood Darbar, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 1, 2015
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 17, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 17, 2010
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): September 20, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): May 2, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 29, 2018
• Last Verified: March 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Atrial Fibrillation; Genotype; ST elevation
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Arrhythmias, Cardiac; Atrial Fibrillation; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; Membrane Transport Modulators; Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Blockers; Sodium Channel Blockers; Procainamide
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB # 100800; U19HL065962 (NIH)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED