Ablation vs Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation - Pilot Trial
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Official title
Catheter Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation - Pilot Trial
Brief summary
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The CABANA pilot study is designed to test the hypothesis that the treatment strategy of percutaneous left atrial catheter ablation for the purpose of the elimination of atrial fibrillation (AF) is superior to current state-of-the-art therapy with either rate control or anti-arrhythmic drugs for reducing AF recurrences at 1 year follow-up.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00578617
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 60 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Aug 31, 2006
- Primary completion
- Jan 31, 2009
- Completion
- May 31, 2010
- Last update posted
- Jan 3, 2013
2006 – 2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 10
- U.S. states
- 10
- U.S. cities
- 10
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universtity of Alabama Hospital | Birminham | Alabama | 35233 | — |
| Good Samaritan Hospital | Los Angeles | California | 90017 | — |
| Loyola University | Maywood | Illinois | 60626 | — |
| Mercy Medical Center | Des Moines | Iowa | 50314 | — |
| Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21287 | — |
| Brigham and Womens Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester | Minnesota | 55902 | — |
| Ohio State University Medical Center | Columbus | Ohio | 43210 | — |
| University of Pennsylvania Health | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| Intermountain Medical Center | Murray | Utah | 84157 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 3, 2013 · Synced Sep 8, 2026
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