NCT04968678

Exploring P-Wave Duration in Arrhythmia Recurrence in Patients Undergoing AF Ablation

Exploring the Relationship Between Duration of the Amplified P-Wave Arrhythmia and Recurrence in Patients With Persistent, Long Persistent or Paroxysmal AF Undergoing Cryoablation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nik Spinthakis · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate whether P-wave duration in a baseline surface 12-lead ECGs correlates with recurrence of AF recurrence post successful ablation at the time of the procedure.

Detailed description

Patients with paroxysmal AF are often treated arrhythmia-free (75%) with a single catheter ablation at 12 months post procedure . In contrast, in patients with persistent AF or long persistent AF, catheter ablation is more complex and often yields in lower success rates of around 50% often requiring multiple attempts . The success rates remain low despite several different ablation sites having been proposed (additional lines plus PVI, epicardial approach). There is growing evidence that PWD is associated with the extent of left atrial scarring and this can be used a potential predictor of AF recurrence . Moreover, results from the investigators group has previously shown that PWD correlated with the duration of the AF and this could be altered by extensive ablation . It is uncertain whether PWD prior to any procedure for persistent AF, long persistent or paroxysmal AF can accurately predict failure of procedure. This is a single centre observational study of persistent, long persistent and paroxysmal AF population who have undergo AF cryoablation in University Hospital Plymouth . All patients receive this current procedure as standard of care. This study does not involve any patient contact out of the standard routine clinical follow up and therefore no public involvement has been sought.

Conditions

• Atrial Fibrillation Recurrent

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	P-wave duration measurement on 12 lead ECG with standard parameters	Hospital records will be used in order to obtain baseline characteristics and the most recent 12-lead ECG in sinus rhythm prior to ablation will be used to calculate PWD. Measurement of the PWD will be obtained at standard surface ECG recording settings of 25mm/s and 10mm/mV and measured accordingly to our previous protocol. In brief, all ECGs obtained will subsequently be anonymised and randomised by an Independent Clinical Investigator (ICI) before measured by the main clinical investigators blinded to initial results. If a dispute of the measurements arouse, consensus will be used to resolve it after consulting the Chief Investigator (CI) blinded to the results. Bland-Altman plots to minimise bias will be used

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-13
• Primary completion: 2022-01-13
• Completion: 2023-05-13
• First posted: 2021-07-20
• Last updated: 2021-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom