Evaluation of a new echocardiographic method to improve the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00037287

Enrollment

100

Registered

2025-07-03

Start date

2018-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-10-06

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Conditions

Special echocardiography in cardiac surgery

Interventions

Group 1: Patients undergoing heart surgery with a heart-lung machine are additionally examined using special echocardiography.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Cardiac surgery (open chest and with heart-lung-maschine)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: none

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The goal of the study is to obtain high-resolution echocardiography images of the heart. To do this, an echocardiography probe is placed directly on the heart during open-heart surgery, and then 4D data sets of different heart rhythms are acquired.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactKarl Toischer

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

ktoischer@med.uni-goettingen.de+49 0551 67601

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026