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nContact Announces First Patient Treated in the CONVERGE IDE Clinical Trial
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Jan. 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — nContact, Inc. today announced the first patient treated in the CONVERGE IDE Clinical Trial, a multicenter, prospective, randomized study evaluating patients with symptomatic persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, estimated to affect 5.9 million people in the U.S., with a majority of patients falling into the difficult-to-treat persistent AF population. The CONVERGE Study is designed to investigate the treatment of persistent AF patients with the multidisciplinary Convergent Procedure, an epicardial-endocardial approach that utilizes the collaborative expertise and techniques of an electrophysiologist and cardiothoracic surgeon…
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