Safety Study on Stopping Anticoagulation Medication in Patients With a History of Atrial Fibrillation

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Atrial Fibrillation

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether it is safe to stop anticoagulation medication in patients with a history of atrial fibrillation (AF) based on information from a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01650298

Run by

Abbott Medical Devices

People needed

64

Starts

2013-01-01

Expected to finish

2017-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-13

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patient has a St Jude Medial device that is compatible with Merlin.net (remote monitoring)
• Patient has history of atrial fibrillation (non-continuous)
• Patient must be taking a a blood thinner medication other than warfarin or aspirin for atrial fibrillation
• Patient is willing to complete a questionnaire

You may not qualify if…

• Patient is in atrial fibrillation all of the time
• Patient has a history of stroke or blood clot
• Patient is on warfarin or coumadin
• Patient cannot be taken off of his blood thinner medication due to another medical condition
• Patient is not capable of sending a remote device transmission to doctor once a week

Where it is running

• Jeffrey Goodman, MD — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Sparrow Research Institute — Lansing, Michigan, United States
• Hackensack University Medical Center — Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
• Samaritan Heart and Vascular Institute — Corvallis, Oregon, United States
• Jefferson Heart Institute — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Allegheny Singer Research Institute — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• STAR Clinical Trials, LLC / Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio — San Antonio, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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