View clinical trials related to Atrial Fibrillation.
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The purpose of this pilot study is to determine if esophageal warming using the Attune Medical Esophageal Heat Transfer Device (EnsoETM) limits the frequency or severity of thermal injury during cryoballoon ablation of atrial fibrillation.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic utility of BIOTRONIK's subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitor for the detection of AF prior to an ablation procedure.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a highly prevalent, morbid condition. Anticoagulation to prevent thromboembolic strokes is a foremost priority in AF but adherence is challenging for patients and lapses in anticoagulation are common. Chronic disease self-management (CDSM) is a recognized program to enhance self-efficacy and improve adherence, quality of life, and patient-centered health outcomes. Rural patients with AF experience increased vulnerability to adverse outcomes due to geographic and social isolation, poor health care access, and limited health literacy. This study uses an innovative, scalable CDSM intervention to improve anticoagulation adherence in rural patients with AF.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common, morbid condition with increasing prevalence. Poor health-related quality of life is common in AF. Patients experience debilitating symptoms and challenging adherence to long-term (possibly lifelong) anticoagulation. The increased risks of stroke, heart failure and mortality associated with AF persist even with optimal treatment. Morbidity in AF is further exacerbated by social factors. Limited health literacy carries challenges of learning a specialized terminology and navigating specialized treatments. In multiple cardiovascular diseases, self-care has demonstrated improvement in self-efficacy, health-related quality of life, symptom burden, and health care utilization - essential components of patient success with AF. Selfcare can provide the critical skills to navigate a challenging chronic disease and improve patient-centered outcomes. Delivery of self-care as a mobile health intervention can complement standard care with a longitudinal intervention to improve patient-centered strategies for AF. While self-care interventions for AF have focused foremost on self-monitoring of anticoagulation,self-care has demonstrated its potential to meet the "triple aim" of improved patient experience, reduced health care utilization, and lower costs.
Over the past few years, research has focused on the prevention of atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardiac surgery, but highly effective interventions are still missing. Postoperative AF remains the most common complication after cardiac surgery, with an incidence of 10 to 50%. This complication is usually a transient condition that resolves spontaneously but it has major adverse consequences for patients and the health care system, including increased rates of death, complications (strokes), and hospitalisations with inflated costs. Recently, animal studies have demonstrated that neurotoxins such as botulinum toxin (BTX) injected into fat pads could suppress AF inducibility by parasympathetic activation. Botulinum toxin injection in fat pads has been studied in the dog's heart and could be associated with the reduction of atrial fibrillation in postoperative cardiac surgery. One pilot study has demonstrated the feasibility and safety of this technique in the human heart. The investigators hypothesize that botulinum toxin injection may substantially reduce postoperative AF during the first postoperative month after cardiac surgery without any serious adverse events. By the suppression of ganglionic plexi (GP) activity in the epicardial fat pads, mild term antiarrhythmic effects can be achieved with fewer antiarrhythmic drugs and anticoagulant treatment.
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a common neurologic emergency. Although the detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) has identical consequences for preventive therapy in patients with ischemic stroke and TIA, the management setting and diagnostic pathways frequently differ substantially between both manifestations. Despite these differences between stroke and TIA patients, previous studies have investigated diagnostic work-up for AF primarily in stroke patients. Thus, there is no common practice or "gold standard" of rhythm monitoring for TIA patients in most healthcare systems and the optimal method and duration of cardiac monitoring for TIA patients is currently unknown. This is likely to result in a substantial under-diagnosis of AF in TIA patients, failure to initiate appropriate secondary preventive medication (i.e. anticoagulation) and ultimately the occurrence of many otherwise preventable strokes. The primary research question of the trial is whether prolonged ECG recording (intervention) significantly increases the rate of detection of paroxysmal AF compared to 24 h electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring (control) 6 months after start of monitoring in patients with recent TIA. The co-primary question of the trial is whether 28 d non-invasive continuous ECG monitoring is non-inferior to ECG recording using an implanted event recorder for AF detection.
This registry is performed for the long-term assessment of outcome, performance and residual safety aspects of the BIOMONITOR III and possible successors in a real-life clinical set-up. In addition, this registry is set up in a way that it may also be used as a platform for submodules to investigate additional scientific and regulatory aspects while minimizing the additional effort for the investigational sites and patients.
This is a prospective, non-randomized study to refine the Study Watch's algorithm for AF detection within both persistent and paroxysmal AF subjects. The study will also collect data from an FDA-cleared wearable ECG sensor.
The purpose of this study is to compare the change of global cognitive performance after 52 weeks of intervention among participants with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) receiving rivaroxaban versus a vitamin K antagonist (warfarin). The secondary objectives are to compare, among participants with NVFA receiving rivaroxaban versus warfarin : - the changes of global cognitive performance after 26 weeks of intervention - the changes of executive functions after 26 and 52 weeks of intervention - the changes of episodic memory after 26 and 52 weeks of intervention - the changes of independence and autonomy after 26 and 52 weeks of intervention