Atrial Tissue Banking: Atrial Tissue Obtained From Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Atrial Fibrillation

In brief

Over the past decade, techniques have been refined which permit an enormous amount of information relevant to disease mechanisms to be gained from the examination of heart tissue. The Cardiovascular Institute has extensive experience with these techniques, and has utilized them to examine other heart disease substrates. In this study, the investigators propose to obtain heart tissue at the time of cardiac surgery which would otherwise be discarded. Their plan is to examine this tissue and correlate their findings with clinical data. Their hope is that the proposed study will provide insight into atrial physiology, including the molecular mechanisms underlying atrial disease and the potential development of atrial fibrillation (AF). This will be a prospective "registry" for atrial tissue. The investigators propose an enrollment of 300 subjects, to take place at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian over a 5 year period.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00248274
Run by
University of Pittsburgh
People needed
300
Starts
2005-01-01
Expected to finish
2009-01-01
Last updated by the study team
2011-11-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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