Active clinical trials for "Atrial Fibrillation"

Single-center, single-arm, prospective, post-market study of LAmbre™ LAA Closure System. To evaluate immediate and long term procedural success of Lifetech LAmbre™ occluders in patients.

The aim of this project is to identify a variable that discerns patients who are interested in their disease (atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter) from patients who show no interest and furthermore test this theory in a questionnaire survey. This should help distinguish between patients who are interested in shared decision making and patients who are not (further projects planned).

The main objective of this study is to realize an observational "real life" study conducted in French geriatric settings, to assess safety and efficacy in ≥ 80 year-old patients with nonvalvular Atrial fibrillation (AF) newly treated with Apixaban. Moreover, in this geriatric population the adequacy of Apixaban dosage and events (bleeding and stroke) will be assessed.

There is no current accepted and predictably effective ablative therapy for patients with recurrent paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after prior pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). This study will compare redo PVI with hybrid epicardial ablation incorporating posterior wall isolation and LAA clip, and redo PVI.

Prevalence of primary aldosteronism (PA) in resistant hypertension is not clear. In addition, emerging evidence supports the role of elevated serum aldosterone in promoting cardiovascular disease, independently from high blood pressure (BP) levels, but current data on this issue are heterogeneous.

Although the additional linear ablation after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is a class IIB indication for AF catheter ablation in patients with persistent AF, no clear benefit has been demonstrated in the recent randomized clinical trials (STAR-AF2 or POBI trials). Nevertheless, in the retrospective cohort data of this research team, additional POBI and AL were helpful in persistent AF patients with left atrial (LA) size > 50mm or more or low LA voltage. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of additional POBI and AL compared to CPVI alone in persistent AF patients with LA size over 50mm. Also, we intend to proceed with this randomized clinical trial with the high power short duration ablation protocol, which is effective in shortening the procedure time.

The aim of the ALFA ROMEO study is to better understand the association between cryptogenic stroke, PFO, PFO closure and AF.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of chronic heart rhythm disease worldwide, with significant associated co-morbidities. Although there have been advances in understanding the mechanisms of AF, the underlying cause of AF and factors which perpetuate it remain incompletely understood. This is particularly the case for persistent AF (persAF). Drug treatments for persAF have a role but can have undesirable side effects with relatively limited efficacy. Furthermore, current invasive therapies for persAF remain suboptimal, requiring significant resources, and with potentially serious complications for patients. Catheter ablation is an effective treatment for paroxysmal AF. For persistent AF (persAF), however, catheter ablation does not provide similar results. This is because there remains a poor understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms driving persAF. Part of this study aims to further explore the specific locations that represent important substrates which would guide more effective catheter ablation. There have been several different ablation approaches explored in the past (see below), however, these did not improve the outcome post procedure compared with pulmonary vein isolation alone. A pilot study has already been carried out and I aim to expand this further with a larger cohort of patients (10-20) over 2 years. In this study the investigators want to explore whether stable high dominant frequency (HDF) sites (with a high organisation index) act as potential drivers of Atrial Fibrillation. Thus, targeting these sites may results in prolongation of the cycle length and thus possible termination of the arrhythmia.

Objectives: First, to determine if patients with a history of AF have acute measurable changes in cognitive functioning while in an episode of AF. Second, to collect basic insight into what specific physiologic (blood pressure, pulse oximetry, heart rate, temperature) and pharmacologic (antiarrhythmic medications, rate control medications, anticoagulants, antiplatelet medications, etc.) factors minimize the neurological impact on patients while they are in AF. It is hypothesized that when using a tablet-based cognitive testing software - Cambridge Cognition (specifically to assess executive function, learning and working memory: Rapid Visual Information Processing test, Spatial Working Memory/Spatial Span Task tests, One touch Stockings of Cambridge test, Cambridge Gambling Task, Multitasking Test/Intra-Extra Dimensional Set shift tests) - a significant difference will be noted between how the patients perform while in atrial fibrillation compared to the patients' performance while in normal sinus rhythm.

In adult patients presenting to emergency departments within 24 hours of symptom onset with suspected acute stroke, we aim: to identify early brain- and pathology-specific circulating, whole blood, plasma and serum panorOmic biomarkers that enable early acute stroke detection, diagnosis, dynamics, differentiation, monitoring, prediction and prognosis. to identify early brain- and pathology-specific, panorOmic biomarkers in saliva that enable early acute stroke detection, diagnosis, dynamics, differentiation, monitoring, prediction and prognosis. to derive biomarker platforms of models for early acute stroke detection, diagnosis, dynamics, differentiation, monitoring, prediction and prognosis to validate these models in independent and external datasets