NCT01582828

Serial Hybrid Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medisch Spectrum Twente · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Treatment of (long-standing) persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) remains cumbersome and the surgical (epicardial) approach seems to be the most effective. Still, however a significant amount of failures exist which is mostly due to incompleteness of the surgical ablation lines. Checking, and if necessary additional ablation, of these lines afterwards endocardially by the cardiologist (the so-called serial hybrid approach) could overcome this problem.

Conditions

• Atrial Fibrillation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Epicardial (surgical) ablation	* Pulmonary vein isolation with bipolar clamps and bipolar box lesion * Epicardial atrial appendage closure
PROCEDURE	Hybrid	Epicardial (surgical) ablation * Pulmonary vein isolation with bipolar clamps and bipolar box lesion * Epicardial atrial appendage closure Endocardial assessment after 6-8 weeks, checking for isolation and if necessary touch up by RF ablation

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2012-04-23
• Last updated: 2024-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands