Cryoablation of AF: Improving the Use of the Achieve Catheter

Clinique Pasteur

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Other: Maneuvers for documenting the disconnection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01843465

CP-CRYO-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to data from high volume Centres, documentation of entry block with the Achieve catheter may be possible in only about to 50% of pulmonary veins. The investigators aim to assess strategies using the Achieve catheter that can improve this performance.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all consecutive patients undergoing atrial fibrillation cryoballoon ablation monitored with the Achieve catheter.

Exclusion criteria

• patients in AF at the beginning of the procedure
• patients with a previous AF ablation procedure

Trial design

34 participants in 1 patient group

Cryoablation of atrial fibrillation

Treatment:

Other: Maneuvers for documenting the disconnection