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Clinical trialNCT02875405CompletedInterventional

The Effect of Posterior Pericardiotomy on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery

SponsorWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversityEnrollment420Atrial Fibrillation
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to determine if preforming a posterior left pericardiotomy prevents atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery.

Investigators

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  • Leonard N Girardi, MD

    Weill Cornell Medical College New York Presbyterian Hospital

    Principal Investigator
  • Mario F Gaudino, MD

    Weill Cornell Medical College New York Presbyterian Hospital

    Study Chair

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Sites

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

United States
  • Weil Cornell Medical College Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

    New York, New York, 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
20 Sept 2017
Primary completion
10 Aug 2021
Completion
24 Aug 2021
Last update posted
27 Aug 2021
Registered enrollment
420
Registry id
NCT02875405

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.