Safe Use of New Oral Anticoagulants in Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Private Hospital Heart Center Varde

Status

Completed

Conditions

Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments

Procedure: Pulmonary venous ostia isolation

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02569255

NOAC and PVI 2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

Use of new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) in patients before and after catheter based pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is still controversial. Experience is reported from consecutive patients ablated with PVI for atrial fibrillation and treated with dabigatran, rivaroxaban, or apixaban from Nov 2011 until Dec 2014. Patients are followed for 3 month after ablation. All complications possible being related to the use of NOAC are registered.

Full description

Use of new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) in patients before and after radiofrequency ablation with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is still controversial. Experience is reported from consecutive patients ablated with PVI for atrial fibrillation and treated with dabigatran, rivaroxaban, or apixaban from Nov 2011 until Dec 2014. Patients paused their NOAC treatment for 24 hours before ablation. Patients were routinely followed up after 3 months with a standard formular focused on possible adverse events (major bleeding complications or thromboembolic events) to NOAC treatment. Adverse events related to the use of NOAC were registered during treatment or during 3 months of follow-up.

Enrollment

234 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria