Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism in Atrial Fibrillation (ERETRIA)

Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation; Primary Aldosteronism

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Screening and Confirmatory diagnostic test for primary aldosteronism

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05973604

4418/26/01/2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an observational prospective cross-sectional study, investigating the prevalence of primary aldosteronism in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Established diagnosis of atrial fibrillation with a standard surface ECG tracing of at least 30 seconds (either paroxysmal or persistent or permanent).

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of primary aldosteronism
• Diagnosis of heart failure, treated with mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists
• Inability to be subjected to any confirmatory tests for primary aldosteronism
• Acute vascular event (acute coronary syndrome, stroke, acute peripheral vascular event) within last 6 months
• Renal replacement therapy
• Incompetence of unwillingness to provide written informed consent