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Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) combined with empiric ablation of either common sites of non-PV triggers of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and locations that may sustain stable AF sources should be more efficacious than PVI combined with ablation of only documented non-PV triggers of AF in achieving long-term arrhythmia control in patients with persistent or long standing persistent AF.


Clinical Trial Description

The AF ablation procedure has evolved considerably and currently the most accepted technique involves creation of circumferential Radiofrequency Ablation lesions around PV ostia (encircling wide areas around the left and right sided veins). We have found that targeting areas outside the pulmonary veins that trigger atrial premature beats of AF is important for optimizing the success of AF ablation. The methodology of additional lesion creation remains non-uniform, lacks mechanistic insights, and there is paucity of prospective randomized comparison on the long term efficacy and safety of various lesion combinations in achieving AF control. Our group recently conducted randomized study (RASTA Trial) that compared PVI combined with ablation of documented non-PV triggers (standard AF ablation strategy) of AF to two other strategies i.e. 1. PVI combined with empiric ablation at common non-PV trigger sites of AF, 2. PVI combined with ablation of locations demonstrating complex fractionated electrograms. In this study comprising 156 subjects with persistent and/or long standing persistent AF, the investigators found that the standard AF ablation strategy was as efficacious as PVI combined with empiric ablation at common non-PV trigger sites of AF and both of these approaches were significantly better than PVI combined with ablation of locations demonstrating complex fractionated electrograms. Our study also showed that when compared to the standard AF ablation strategy (PVI combined with ablation of documented non PV AF triggers), PVI combined with empiric ablation at common locations of AF triggers in the left and right atria showed 22% higher odds of achieving freedom from atrial arrhythmias and 33% higher odds of achieving arrhythmia control at one year. Although this difference may have been clinically meaningful, it did not reach statistical significance because this study was powered to test for a difference of ≥30% between groups. Thus, in the current proposal the investigators hope to show statistical difference in the outcomes between these two strategies by increasing the sample size which will provide adequate power to show a 20% difference in the primary outcome. Also, the investigators hope to enhance the outcome in the study arm (PVI combined with empiric ablation at common locations of AF triggers) by also targeting empirically locations in the left and right atria that have been shown in recent studies to be focal sources and rotors that maintain AF. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT02019238
Study type Interventional
Source University of Pennsylvania
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Status Terminated
Phase N/A
Start date August 2013
Completion date January 2015

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