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Evaluation of the FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation System in Subjects With Atrial Fibrillation

An interventional study of FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (PAF) and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation, sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation. Recruiting at 13 sites in 4 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-23.

Sponsored by Boston Scientific Corporation · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2026; still recruiting 4 months later.
Updated Oct 23, 20261 site addedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
571
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 61 studies in Atrial Fibrillation by Boston Scientific Corporation — 8 open to participants now, 20 under way, none of them phase 3. Atrial Fibrillation · Boston Scientific Corporation.

Planned enrollment
11th of 40
571 · median 296
Started
2026
with 4 others
No phase
34 of 61
8 open now
Primary completion
2028-07
later than 16 of 19 live
Registered
59th of 61
by date

Among the 61 studies in Atrial Fibrillation by Boston Scientific Corporation, this one is the 11th largest by planned enrollment of the 40 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 5 that started in 2026, is one of 34 with no phase, reaches primary completion later than 16 of the 19 other live ones, and was the 59th registered.

Atrial Fibrillation

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 612 Atrial Fibrillation studies recruiting now, 407 (67%) set no upper age limit and 44 (7%) stop at 75 or younger; 21 take children under 18; 43 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the FARAFLEX™ Mapping and pulsed field ablation (PFA) System can safely and effectively treat symptomatic, drug-refractory Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) and Persistent atrial fibrillation (PersAF). The main question it aims to answer is:

Is the FARAFLEX Mapping and PFA System a safe and effective treatment for patients?

Participants will undergo an ablation procedure using the FARAFLEX Mapping and PFA System.

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Conditions studied

  • Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (PAF)
  • Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

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Keywords

  • pulsed field ablation
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. At least 18 years old (or older if required by local law)
  2. Symptomatic, documented, drug- paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation (AF).
  3. Willing and capable of providing written
  4. Willing and able to comply with all follow-up assessments and study procedures at an approved site

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Any of the following atrial conditions:

    1. Left atrial anteroposterior diameter of at least 5.5 cm, or if not available, non-indexed volume greater than 100 mL
    2. Any prior atrial endocardial, epicardial, or surgical ablation for atrial arrhythmia (excluding right-sided Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) or Cavo-Tricuspid Isthmus (CTI)-dependent flutter)
    3. Any prior atrial surgery
    4. Current atrial myxoma
    5. Pulmonary vein abnormality, stenosis, or prior stenting (common and middle pulmonary veins allowed)
    6. Current left atrial thrombus
  2. Any of the following cardiovascular conditions:

    1. History of sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation
    2. Atrial fibrillation secondary to reversible or non-cardiac causes (e.g., electrolyte imbalance, thyroid disease, alcohol)
    3. Presence of any of the following cardiac devices or implants:

      • Current or anticipated pacemaker, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or cardiac resynchronization therapy device
      • Current implantable loop recorder other than LUX-Dx
      • Prior interatrial baffle or septal closure device/patch (Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)or Atrial Septal Defect (ASD))
      • Left atrial appendage closure or occlusion device
    4. valvular disease, including:

      • Any cardiac valve prosthesis, ring, repair, or clip
      • Moderate to severe mitral stenosis
      • Moderate to severe aortic stenosis
      • Severe mitral regurgitation
      • Severe tricuspid regurgitation
    5. Hypertrophic or amyloid cardiomyopathy
    6. Presence of Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter, inability to obtain vascular access, or to femoral access
    7. Awaiting cardiac transplantation or other cardiac surgery within 12 months (left atrial appendage closure/occlusion procedures allowed no less than (≥) 60 days after index procedure)
    8. Severe right ventricular dysfunction per investigator assessment
  3. Any of the following congenital conditions:

    1. Congenital heart disease with clinically significant residual anatomic or conduction abnormalities, or channelopathies
    2. Known congenital methemoglobinemia
    3. Known G6PD deficiency
  4. Any of the following medical history conditions:

    1. Solid organ or hematologic transplant, or under evaluation for transplant
    2. History or current evidence of hemi-diaphragmatic paralysis or paresis
    3. Prinzmetal angina or severe non-revascularizable coronary disease
    4. Known coagulopathy or bleeding disorder
    5. Renal insufficiency, history of dialysis, or renal transplant
    6. Known allergic reaction to nitroglycerin (excluding hypotension)
    7. Required use of phosphodiesterase inhibitors within 24 hours of the ablation procedure
    8. Active spinal cord stimulator
  5. Any of the following baseline conditions:

    1. Class III or IV heart failure
    2. (LVEF) less than 40% within 12 months
    3. CHA2DS2-VASc score greater than or equal to 5
    4. (BMI) greater than 45.0
    5. Contraindication to or unwillingness to use systemic anticoagulation peri-procedurally
    6. Pregnant or lactating at time of procedure
    7. Severe lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, or oxygen-dependent lung disease
    8. Active (excluding squamous cell carcinoma)
    9. Clinically significant gastrointestinal disease (e.g., severe or erosive esophagitis, uncontrolled reflux, gastroparesis, esophageal candidiasis, active gastroduodenal ulceration)
    10. Known Active systemic infection
    11. of less than 1 year
    12. Concurrent enrollment in another study or registry that may interfere with this study (exceptions include mandatory governmental registries or purely observational registries with sponsor approval)
  6. Any of the following events within 90 days prior to consent:

    1. Myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or coronary intervention
    2. Pericarditis or symptomatic pericardial effusion
    3. Gastrointestinal bleeding
    4. Cardiac surgery
    5. Stroke, (TIA), or intracranial bleeding
    6. Any active non-neurologic thrombus and/or thromboembolic event
    7. Carotid stenting or endarterectomy
    8. Heart failure hospitalization
    9. Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus or greater than 8.0%
  7. Other conditions:

    1. Unwillingness to receive, or unable to tolerate, a subcutaneous, chronically inserted ICM from the LUX-Dx family of devices
    2. Any medical condition that, in the investigator's opinion, would interfere with study participation, increase risk, or affect data interpretation
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Informed consent

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Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

HbA1c

A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
571 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System

    Participants undergo a catheter procedure using the FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System to treat atrial fibrillation. The catheter is used to map the heart's electrical signals and deliver pulsed field ablation therapy.

    Device: FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System

Interventions

  • DeviceFARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System

    Catheter used to perform cardiac electrophysiological mapping and deliver cardiac tissue ablation therapy for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation.

    Also known as: FARAFLEX Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) Catheter, FARAFLEX Catheter

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of Treatment Subjects and Attempt Subjects with device- or procedure-related defined Composite Serious Adverse Events, assessed through Day 60 following the index procedure.

    Occurrence of defined Composite Serious Adverse Events after the procedure through Day 60.

    Time frame: After the index procedure, rescheduled index procedure, or first re-ablation performed with the FARAFLEX (Day 0) through Day 60

  2. The primary effectiveness endpoint (PEE) is the proportion of Treatment Subjects with Treatment Success through the Day 365 Assessment.

    Acute Procedural Success defined as Pulmonary Vein (PV) Isolation and Chronic Success. Chronic Success is defined as freedom from the following after the Blanking Period (60 days): * Arrhythmia: Occurrence of any Detectable Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Atrial Flutter (AFL), or Atrial Tachycardia (AT) * Re-ablation: Any re-ablation for Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Atrial Flutter (AFL), or Atrial Tachycardia (AT) * Cardioversion: Any electrical cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Atrial Flutter (AFL), or Atrial Tachycardia (AT) * Antiarrhythmic Drug (AAD) Use: dose increase from the historic maximum ineffective dose (prior to the ablation procedure) or initiation of a new AAD.

    Time frame: Day 0 through the Day 365 Assessment

Secondary outcomes

  1. Atrial Arrhythmia Burden Success Endpoint

    Atrial Arrhythmia Burden Success is defined as the proportion of Treatment subjects with atrial arrhythmia burden less than or equal to 0.1% in the time period post-blanking period through 6 months, as measured by LUX-Dx.

    Time frame: Post-blanking period (Day 60) through 6 months (Day 180)

  2. Cavo-Tricuspid Isthmus (CTI) Ablation - Acute Procedural Endpoint

    Defined as the proportion of Treatment Subjects who underwent a Cavo-Tricuspid Isthmus (CTI) ablation during the Index Procedure, regardless of the atrial fibrillation cohort, with absence of conduction through the cavo-tricuspid isthmus in both directions (bidirectional block), achieved with the FARAFLEX™ Mapping and PFA Catheter only, and confirmed prior to the end of the Index Ablation Procedure.

    Time frame: Index Ablation Procedure

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Study locations

13 of 13 sites recruiting
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Jul 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2028, 24 months after the start.

Of 255 industry-sponsored interventional studies with no phase under Atrial Fibrillation, half reached primary completion within 22 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 36. This study's planned 24 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 1,051 studies reached it within 33 months; a quarter within 18 and three quarters within 54.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
May 4, 2026
First posted
May 8, 2026
StartActual
Jul 7, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jul 20, 2028
CompletionEst.
Jan 1, 2030
Last update
Oct 23, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Sites
1 site added
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  • Massachusetts General Hospital-Hospital · Boston, United States
Oct 23, 2026
Site contacts
Changed at 1 site. See the sites
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  • Mercy Hospital Medical Center · West Des Moines, United StatesContact t•••@mercyoneiowa.org→n•••@mercyone.org
Oct 23, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 23, 2026
    1 site added
    Show site
    • Massachusetts General Hospital-Hospital · Boston, United States
    Site contacts Changed at 1 site. See the sites
    Show the site
    • Mercy Hospital Medical Center · West Des Moines, United StatesContact t•••@mercyoneiowa.org→n•••@mercyone.org
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07575269
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 8, 2026
Start date
Jul 7, 2026
Primary completion
Jul 20, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 1, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 23, 2026

Study contacts

Madalyn MacKinnon
Contact
Madalyn.MacKinnon@bsci.com
860-992-2724
Sara Veraghtert
Contact
Sara.Veraghtert@bsci.com
Andrea Natale, MD
principal investigator · Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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