Active clinical trials for "Atrial Fibrillation"

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and increases the risk of ischemic stroke 4-5-fold. The prevention of complications is based on oral or antiplatelet anticoagulant treatment. The first choice of anticoagulant therapy (AT) is the vitamin K antagonist (VKA). Contraindication to VKA or poor control of the International Normalized Ratio leads to the administration of direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs). There is a trend towards inadequate AT in non-valvular AF (NVAF) patients. The Objective of the study is evaluate the impact of the implementation of a decision support tool linked to digital clinical history on the adequacy of AT, the incidence of complications and the mortality in patients with NVAF in primary health care of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS).

This is a retrospective, observational, claims cohort study to assess, for adult patients initiating an oral anticoagulant for NVAF

This population-based descriptive study will characterize first-time users of three NOACs (rivaroxaban, dabigatran and apixaban) in prevention of stroke in non-valvular atrial fibrillation (SPAF) patients and will assess the patterns of drug utilization in routine general practice in Colombia

In Western countries, every sixth person in their lifetime and 15,000 people in Finland have a new stroke each year. About every fourth stroke is based on cardiac embolism. Atrial fibrillation causes formation of thrombi in the left atrium with ensuing embolization in the cerebral and peripheral circulation. This study investigates the suitability of measurement techniques and new calculation methods used in sport/wellness technology for the screening and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias. New measurement technologies, the one-time ECG measurement and pulse wristband measurement, are studied for their characteristics, data quality and rhythm recognition. Identifying latent arrhythmias with new self-monitoring technologies can significantly reduce the number of strokes (the latent arrhythmias causes about 25% of strokes). The research will be accomplished in cooperation with the Kuopio University Hospital Emergency Department, the Heart Center, the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Eastern Finland and Heart2Save Ltd. The results of the research project will be published in the scientific journals of medicine and medical technology and will be presented at scientific conferences of the respective fields. The research results of the project can be utilized by all companies in the medical technology industry, in particular companies that produce ECG measuring instruments and companies that produce rhythm recognition software.

The primary objective in this study is to identify commercial pulse detection systems (CPDS) parallel to electrocardiogram (ECG) recording within routine clinical setting, which are able to detect atrial fibrillation or sinus rhythm of screened patients.

Patients receiving Novel Oral Anticoagulation (NOACs) undergo diagnostic and therapeutic procedures at a rate of 10% per year. Short half-lives and rapid onset of action allow for short periods of NOAC interruption without heparin bridging. There is only minimal information on the peri-procedural usage pattern of edoxaban and the related outcome data currently available. Therefore, further real-world clinical data on the peri-procedural usage pattern of edoxaban within any diagnostic or interventional procedure in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) or venous thromboembolism (VTE) will be collected in this registry.

Describe patient and physician assessed factors for patient well-being when treated with Pradaxa for stroke and embolism prevention in atrial fibrillation either compared to previous antithrombotic treatment (switcher)

To investigate the prognostic impacts of the atrial fibrillation burden (AFb) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients who developed paroxysmal new-onset atrial fibrillation (NOAF) during the index AMI hospitalization.

Radiotherapy associated Atrial Fibrillation (RADAF) is an observational study to evaluate onset time and frequency of atrial fibrillation in patients with thoracic malignancies and breast cancer. Each patient will have 12 lead ECG prior, and daily during radiotherapy.

This is a retrospective cohort study of radiofrequency ablation for the treatment atrial fibrillation(AF). Based on the electrophysiological phenomena found in these cases, the investigators propose a hypothesis regarding the underlying electrophysiological mechanism of AF, as well as a novel approach for catheter ablation of AF.