NCT05293080RecruitingPhase 3
Early Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation for Stroke Prevention Trial in Acute STROKE
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will determine whether early, comprehensive, rhythm control therapy prevents adverse cardiovascular outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation compared to usual care.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1746 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 1 Mar 2022
- Start date
- 6 Nov 2025
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jul 2031
- Lead sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Diseases
- Stroke, Atrial fibrillation
- NCT number
- NCT05293080
- EU CT number
- 2025-521260-35-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 1746
- From 6 Nov 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Jul 2031
- 41 sites in 3 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Prior AF ablation or surgical therapy of AF
Other illness
- End-stage cancer or life-expectancy \< 12 months due to other advanced co-morbid illness
- Patients not suitable for rhythm control of AF due to cardiac conditions
Who the study is looking for
- Acute ischemic stroke in the previous four weeks, diagnosed by imaging (CT or MRI) or clinical diagnosis
- Possibility to start the trial treatment within 4 weeks after stroke, and as soon as clinically justifiable
- AF first detected ≤1 year prior to randomization
- Informed consent
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (41)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhoen-Klinikum AG Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bad Neustadt A.D.Saale | Germany | Recruiting |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Recruiting |
| Vivantes Netzwerk fuer Gesundheit GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Recruiting |
| Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel gGmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bielefeld | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Bonn AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bonn | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Cologne AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cologne | Germany | Recruiting |
| Technische Universitaet Dresden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dresden | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Erlangen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Essen (AoR) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Essen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Frankfurt Hoechst GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt Am Main | Germany | Recruiting |
| Goethe University Frankfurt Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt Am Main | Germany | Recruiting |
| Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Giessen | Germany | Recruiting |
| BG Klinikum Bergmannstrost Halle gGmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Halle (Saale) | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hanover | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kiel | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaet Leipzig Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leipzig | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Luebeck | Germany | Recruiting |
| Staedtisches Klinikum Lueneburg gGmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lueneburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Heidelberg University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mannheim | Germany | Recruiting |
| Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaet Muenster Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Muenster | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM Klinikum) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| LMU Klinikum Muenchen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| FEK Friedrich-Ebert-Krankenhaus Neumuenster GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Neumuenster | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tuebingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Ulm AoR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ulm | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Wuerzburg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuerzburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Badalona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Fundacio De Recerca Clinic Barcelona-Institut D’Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro de Majadahonda Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Majadahonda | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valladolid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zaragoza | Spain | Recruiting |
| Amsterdam UMC Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Radboud universitair medisch centrum Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nijmegen | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Haga Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | 's-Gravenhage | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Utrecht | Netherlands | Recruiting |
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