Active clinical trials for "Atrial Fibrillation"

The purpose of this randomized clinical trial is to compare the efficacy and safety of wide area circumferential ablation using contact force catheter with cryoballoon ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

Hybrid ablation, as an emerging strategy for atrial fibrillation (AF) in recent years, shows encouraging outcomes in many medical centers. A lot of cases demonstrated hybrid ablation has higher success rate than surgical ablation on patients with persistent AF, especially long-standing persistent AF (LSPAF). But it is still lack of high level evidence to prove it. This study focus on patients with long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (LSPAF). In order to compare the efficacy and safety of hybrid ablation (two-stage) versus thoracoscopic surgical ablation, a randomized, controlled clinical trial will be performed in the population of LSPAF patients.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a hospital quality improvement (QI) program on the use of guideline-recommended oral anticoagulants (OAC) in hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at risk for ischemic stroke. Specifically, the study will determine whether the intervention, compared to Usual Care, will result in a greater increase in the proportion of patients with AF at risk for ischemic stroke who are appropriately treated with OAC.

Linear ablation is frequently used in the procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation. However, it has a limitation because of technical difficulty. Incomplete block is common and an important cause of atrial tachycardia. The association between contact force values and successful linear block has not been revealed yet. We aim to the effectiveness and safety of linear ablation by using CF sensing catheter.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most serious atrial electrical activity disorders, is also one of the common tachyarrhythmias.Circumferential pulmonary Vein Isolation (CPVI) is considered to be the cornerstone of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation ablation, but recently reported in the literature that pure CPVI treatment for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation the 5-year success rate as low as 46.6%, and the incidence of atrial reentry tachycardia is also high in the follow-up period. Therefore it is necessary for us to explore whether the success rate of CPVI combined with Leftatrium Roofline Ablation (CPVI + LARA) for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is higher than the pure CPVI.

This study was designed in order to evaluate and compare the efficacy and safety between aspirin and clopidogrel in the patient with low stroke risk Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Atrial fibrillation in the elderly is a complex condition due to the high number of frequently associated comorbidities such kidney disease. Direct oral anticoagulants (dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban) are indicated for preventing thromboembolic events but renal function should be closely monitored for this age group when these drugs are used. Dosing recommendations for prevention of stroke are based on renal clearance of creatinine (ClCr) estimated using the Cockcroft-Gault formula. It is well known that ClCr estimates predict a steeper decline with advancing age than Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) estimates. This raises the possibility that substitution of commonly reported GFR for estimated CrCl could result in different plasmatic concentrations of oral direct anticoagulants. The aim of this study was to compare estimates of ClCr and GFR and determine the impact on the plasmatic concentration of these drugs in elderly patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

A randomized trial has recently demonstrated non-inferiority of cryoballoon vs. radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation in patients with drug-refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). There is a growing amount of evidence suggesting that Cryoballoon ablation is highly effective also in non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The IRON-ICE trial will evaluate the effect of Cryoballoon AF ablation in patients with short-term persistent AF.

This will be a prospective, single-blinded, three-center, randomized, controlled trial comparing the effectiveness and safety of angioplasty guidewire-assisted transseptal puncture (GW-TSP) technique to transseptal left atrial (LA) access with conventional transseptal puncture with standard transseptal equipment (CON-TSP) in patients undergoing left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) procedure for atrial fibrillation. The targeted population will consist of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing LAAO.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been known to have several pathophysiologic mechanisms including endothelial dysfunction of heart and vessel. This study was designed to determine the efficacy of NOAC therapy in the prevention of endothelial dysfunction and progression of atherosclerosis of AF subjects.