Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

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Conditions studied: Atrial Fibrillation

In brief

The aim is to investigate whether optimizing patients' expectations towards the interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation (catheter ablation) leads to a lower disease-related impairment of the patients compared to the control group in the first three months after ablation (the so-called blanking period).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05557526

Run by

Evangelical Hospital Düsseldorf

People needed

60

Starts

2022-06-09

Expected to finish

2027-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-28

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• symptomatic atrial fibrillation
• indication for pulmonary vein isolation
• sufficient command of the German language

You may not qualify if…

• age <18 years
• permanent atrial fibrillation
• presence of psychiatric disorders which impair the study participitatin
• presence of another medical condiction which influences quality of life stronger than the cardiac condition
• atrial fibrillation induced by intoxication, medicamentation or infection
• inability to grap the course of the study

Where it is running

• Evangelic Hospital Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany (enrolling)
• Westdeutsches Herz- und Gefäßzentrum — Essen, Germany (enrolling)

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