Typical Flutter Ablation:A Comparison of 4 mm Versus 2 mm Irrigated cathéters

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Typical Atrial Flutter; Radiofrequency Ablation; Irrigated Catheters

Treatments: Procedure: Radiofrequency ablation for atrial flutter by catheters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00750711

Protocole 08-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of 4 mm irrigated catheters with 2 mm irrigated catheters for ablation of typical flutter.It's a prospective randomised multicenter study.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients above the age 18 years undergoing a first catheter ablation for typical atrial flutter

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Hemodynamic instability
• A recurrence of previous ablated typical atrial flutter

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

KT,2

Experimental group

Description:

There are two arms in this study: KT2 arm and KT4 arm. Patients in KT2 arm will be ablated with the 2 mm irrigated catheter and patients in KT4 mm will be ablated with the 4 mm irrigated catheter.

Treatment:

Procedure: Radiofrequency ablation for atrial flutter by catheters