Dual Epicardial Endocardial Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Study
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Official title
Feasibility Trial of a Hybrid Approach for Treatment of Patients With Persistent or Longstanding Persistent Atrial Fibrillation With Radiofrequency Ablation
Brief summary
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The purpose of this clinical investigation is to evaluate how safe a less invasive cardiac surgery is using the AtriCure Bipolar System combined with a catheter ablation procedure in treating AF, and how effective this combined procedure is using the AtriCure System in treating AF. The AtriCure Bipolar System will be used to perform the less invasive cardiac surgery and a standard electrophysiology catheter, currently available, will be used to perform the catheter ablation procedure. This surgical procedure is considered less invasive because it is done through tiny surgical punctures on the sides of the chest near the ribs instead of one large surgical incision of the breast bone to completely open the chest and access the heart, and it also avoids the need for the heart-lung bypass machine.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01246466
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 24 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- 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
- Nov 30, 2010
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2012
- Completion
- Oct 31, 2013
- Last update posted
- Mar 31, 2021
2010 – 2013
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 4
- U.S. cities
- 5
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford University Medical Center | Stanford | California | 94305 | — |
| Vanderbilt Heart Institute | Nashville | Tennessee | 37232 | — |
| Baylor Health | Plano | Texas | 75093 | — |
| UVA | Charlottesville | Virginia | 22908 | — |
| Sentara Norfolk | Norfolk | Virginia | 23507 | — |
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- Last update posted Mar 31, 2021 · Synced Sep 10, 2026
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