Clinical trialNCT00415558TerminatedInterventional

Prospective Clinical Study of the Guidant Microwave Ablation System for the Treatment of PAF in the MIS Procedure

SponsorMaquet CardiovascularAtrial Fibrillation

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this prospective, single-arm, un-blinded, multi-site clinical study is to assess the safety and efficacy of the Microwave Ablation System for the treatment of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) in the minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedure in approximately 30 patients at 6 investigational sites in the United States.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Daniel Bethencourt, MD
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Dudley Hudspeth, MD
Banner Desert Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Li Poa, MD
Enloe Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Niloo Edwards, MD
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Principal Investigator
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Norbert Baumgartner, MD
Covenant Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Sites

5 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Facility name not stated
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Facility name not stated
Chico, California, United States
Facility name not stated
Long Beach, California, United States
Facility name not stated
Saginaw, Michigan, United States
Facility name not stated
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 May 2007
Primary completion: —
Completion: —
Last update posted: 9 Jun 2009
Registered enrollment: —
Registry id: NCT00415558

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.