# Surgical or Catheter Ablation of Lone Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Patients

> **NCT00703157** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure** · enrollment: 80 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Atrial Fibrillation

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Catheter Ablation
- **PROCEDURE:** Surgical Ablation

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00703157
- **Lead sponsor:** Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure
- **Sponsor class:** INDUSTRY
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2007-11
- **Primary completion:** 2015-08
- **Final completion:** 2016-11
- **Target enrollment:** 80 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Enrollments slowed down significantly, despite several attempts to re-launch.
- **Last updated:** 2017-05-16


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00703157

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00703157, "Surgical or Catheter Ablation of Lone Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Patients". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00703157. Licensed CC0.

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