# Catheter Ablation Versus Thoracoscopic Ablation to Patients With Permanent Atrial Fibrillation

> **NCT00296166** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Rigshospitalet, Denmark** · enrollment: 200 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Atrial Fibrillation

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Catheter ablation
- **PROCEDURE:** Thoracoscopic epicardial ablation

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00296166
- **Lead sponsor:** Rigshospitalet, Denmark
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2006-11
- **Primary completion:** —
- **Final completion:** 2010-11
- **Target enrollment:** 200 (ESTIMATED)
- **Why stopped:** Patients with permanent AF are seldomly symptomatic enough to justify intervention. We decided to stop inclusion due to low recruitment rate.
- **Last updated:** 2010-09-02


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00296166

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00296166, "Catheter Ablation Versus Thoracoscopic Ablation to Patients With Permanent Atrial Fibrillation". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00296166. Licensed CC0.

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