Patients' Perspective on Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of AVRT and AVNRT (PPRA)

National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Re-entrant Atrioventricular Tachycardia; Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry

Treatments: Procedure: RFA

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01594814

PPRA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Atrioventricular nodal reciprocating tachycardia (AVNRT) and atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia (AVRT) are two similar supraventricular re-entry tachycardias (SVT) emerging in relatively young age in patients without apparent structural heart disease or significant comorbidities. The treatment of choice in those patients is radiofrequency ablation (RFA).

The PPRA study is a prospective observational study developed to thoroughly analyze quality of life, utility and willingness-to-pay of Polish patients undergoing RF ablation of AVNRT or AVRT.

Based on collected data the investigators will prepare a profile of patient who will benefit most from radiofrequency ablation and who should be scheduled in first place for the ablation in case of problems with accessibility to this service.

What is more an analysis of medical and indirect costs of care will be performed.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Written informed consent
2. Age above 18
3. Scheduled RFA due to AVNRT or AVRT
4. Sufficient knowledge of the Polish language to independently complete the questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

1. No written informed consent
2. Health states significantly impairing QoL (eg. stroke, advanced heart failure)

Trial design

82 participants in 1 patient group

RFA of AVNRT of AVRT

Treatment:

Procedure: RFA