Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Using a Flexible Tip Catheter with Multiple Output Settings
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Atrial fibrillation
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients who have been diagnosed with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, who is eligible for catheter ablation, and who can be followed up at the outpatient clinic.
- Patients who are aged 20 or older and under 80 at the time of obtaining consent (regardless of gender).
- Patients who provided written consent based on their own free will as research subjects, after receiving sufficient explanation regarding participation in this study.
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients who are contraindicated for antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulant therapy.
- Patients who have been definitively diagnosed with mitral valve stenosis.
- Patients who have an implanted artificial valve.
- Patients who have undergone ventricular or atrial incision surgery within the past 4 weeks.
- Patients diagnosed with a life expectancy of less than one year due to any illness.
- Patients with left atrial thrombus.
- Patients with a left atrial diameter exceeding 50mm.
- Patients with a history of catheter ablation.
- Patients with thyroid dysfunction.
- Patients with cancer.
- Patients with reduced cardiac function and a left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 50%.
- Patients with atrial fibrillation persisting for more than 5 years.
- Patients with atrial fibrillation associated with hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Patients with atrial fibrillation and renal dysfunction (eGFR less than 50 mL/min/1.73m2).
- Pregnant patients.
- Other patients deemed unsuitable for research participation by the investigators.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- parallel assignment
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Ablation time for pulmonary vein isolation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method