Baylor College of Medicine
The investigators aim to prospectively test the comparative effectiveness of His or Left bundle branch pacing in relation to patient centered outcomes (quality of life, physical activity, heart failure hospitalization, mortality) and comparative safety in relation to device-related complications and re-interventions (e.g., lead dislodgement, infection) relative to standard of care biventricular pacing in patients with heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVEF≤50%) and with either a wide QRS (≥130 ms) or with/anticipated \>40% pacing who are already receiving current standard heart failure pharmacological therapy.
In this prospective, randomized, multi-center clinical trial, the investigators aim to prospectively evaluate the comparative effectiveness His or Left bundle branch pacing (His/LBBP) vs. biventricular pacing (BiVP) in patients with heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVEF≤50%) and with either a wide QRS (≥130 ms) or with/anticipated \>40% pacing who are already receiving current standard heart failure pharmacological therapy by assessing all cause death and heart failure hospitalization at the end of the study. Additional formal secondary objectives include evaluation…
Inclusion Criteria: * Men and women 18 years of age or older. * A LVEF ≤ 50% within 6 months prior to enrollment. * Resting QRS duration ≥130 ms as evidenced by a historical 12-lead ECG prior to enrollment OR anticipated right ventricular pacing \>40% OR device in place with right ventricular pacing \> 40%. * Are optimized on HF guideline directed medical therapy according to current HF published guidelines OR patient's physician will make an effort to start all guideline-directed medical therapy and titrate doses up as permitted by the participant clinical status and co-morbidities prior to…
Pacing at the level His-Bundle or left bundle branch is used to correct the underlying conduction abnormality, resulting in a faster and more homogeneous activation of the heart pacing directly via the intrinsic conduction system of the heart accompanied by a right atrial endocardial lead and a right ventricular defibrillator endocardial lead for LVEF≤35% and by a right atrial endocardial lead for LVEF 36-50%.
Biventricular pacing has been shown to improve outcomes by delivering synchronized electrical stimuli to the right and left ventricles utilizing an an endocardial right atrial lead, an endocardial right ventricular lead, and an epicardial left ventricular lead implanted in a branch of the coronary sinus. For LVEF≤35% a biventricular pacemaker-defibrillator will be implanted while for LVEF 36-50% a biventricular pacemaker will be implanted.