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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00291174
Date of registration: 10/02/2006
Primary sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
Public title: Measuring Electrical Resistance of Different Tissues on the Outer Surface of the Heart
Scientific title: Impedance Measurement of Epicardial Substrate for Ventricular Arrhythmias: Case Control Series of Patients With and Without Myocardial Scarring
Date of first enrolment: April 2006
Target sample size: 8
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00291174
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   David J. Callans, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- All adult patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery for coronary artery disease
(with or without normal heart function) or valvular disease (with normal heart
function) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Y.
Joseph Woo MD will be eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients undergoing emergent surgery and patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy,
infiltrative cardiomyopathies and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies will be excluded.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Arrhythmia
Cardiomyopathies
Myocardial Infarction
Ventricular Dysfunction
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
803272
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Biosense Webster, Inc.
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