# Clinical and Economic Consequences of Left Atrial Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Persistent and Permanent Atrial Fibrillation During Cardiac Surgery

> **NCT00157807** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Medtronic Cardiac Surgery** · enrollment: 24 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Atrial Fibrillation
- Coronary Artery Disease

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** bipolar radiofrequency ablation of persistent and permanent AF

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00157807
- **Lead sponsor:** Medtronic Cardiac Surgery
- **Sponsor class:** INDUSTRY
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2005-09
- **Primary completion:** 2008-06
- **Final completion:** 2013-08
- **Target enrollment:** 24 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** no eligible patients can be found
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-08

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00157807

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00157807, "Clinical and Economic Consequences of Left Atrial Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Persistent and Permanent Atrial Fibrillation During Cardiac Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-09 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00157807. Licensed CC0.

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