NCT05557526Recruiting
Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim is to investigate whether optimizing patients' expectations towards the interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation (catheter ablation) leads to a lower disease-related impairment of the patients compared to the control group in the first three months after ablation (the so-called blanking period).
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 7 Jan 2022
- Start date
- 9 Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Evangelical Hospital Düsseldorf
- Diseases
- Atrial fibrillation
- NCT number
- NCT05557526
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 60
- From 9 Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 2 sites in 1 country
- 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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Other illness
- presence of psychiatric disorders which impair the study participitatin
- presence of another medical condiction which influences quality of life stronger than the cardiac condition
- atrial fibrillation induced by intoxication, medicamentation or infection
Age
- age \<18 years
Other
- permanent atrial fibrillation
- inability to grap the course of the study
Who the study is looking for
- symptomatic atrial fibrillation
- indication for pulmonary vein isolation
- sufficient command of the German language
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelic Hospital Düsseldorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Düsseldorf | Germany | Recruiting |
| Westdeutsches Herz- und Gefäßzentrum Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Essen | Germany | Recruiting |
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