Flecainide-Short Long Study (Flec-SL)

NCT00215774 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 760

Last updated 2012-09-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A randomized trial to test the hypothesis that short-term pharmacological reversal of electrical remodeling after cardioversion is equally efficient to prevent recurrent atrial fibrillation as standard long-term antiarrhythmic therapy.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Flecainide

Flecainide 2 - 3 x 100 mg/d The main difference between the two active therapy groups is the duration of treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV
  • Meda Pharmaceuticals

    collaborator INDUSTRY
  • German Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER
  • Atrial Fibrillation Network

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • P Kirchhof, Prof · AFNET, Kompetenznetz Vorhofflimmern

  • G Breithardt, Prof · AFNET, Kompetenznetz Vorhofflimmern

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-03-31
Primary Completion
2009-10-31
Completion
2011-03-31

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