Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Without the Evidence of Low-voltage Areas

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

An effective therapy of persistent atrial fibrillation beyond pulmonary vein isolation remains unsatisfactory. Targeting endocardial low-voltage areas represents an approach of substrate modification. This prospective, randomized study investigated the efficacy of ablation of low-voltage areas versus PVI and additional linear ablations in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation in terms of single-procedure arrhythmia-free outcome and safety.

Clinical Trial Description

Pulmonary vein isolation has become the cornerstone of the interventional treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. For the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation the data remains unclear. All different approaches remain unsatisfactory for the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation, including single pulmonary vein isolation, targeting endocardial areas of low-voltage, identifying areas with complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE), ablating linear lines such as an anterior line, a roof-line or mitral isthmus line. Recurrence rates are still higher as compared to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation ablation. Several studies showed a good correlation between the volume of low-voltage areas (LVA) and the burden of atrial fibrillation. Earlier studies that investigated ablation therapy using a substrate-guided ablation as compared to circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (CPVI) alone, mostly showed no significant difference in recurrence rates between both approaches. In contrast, some other studies showed better outcomes when targeting low-voltage areas. However, there was significant heterogeneity in patient selection, mapping and ablation strategies and therefore, comparisons are hard to make. The patients are randomized into three different treatment arms (Group 1: PVI alone if no low voltage areas are detected, Group 2: PVI alone if low voltage areas are detected, Group 3: PVI plus ablation of low voltage areas. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT06124690
Study type	Interventional
Source	Robert Bosch Medical Center
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Status	Active, not recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	September 1, 2023
Completion date	September 1, 2025

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