ArticleJournal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing2017
Predictors of arrhythmia recurrence after balloon cryoablation of atrial fibrillation: the value of CAAP-AF risk scoring system.
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- Predictive Value of Machine Learning for Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation after Catheter Ablation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Predicting recurrent atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation: a systematic review of prognostic models.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2020Pooled it
- The predictive value of combining CAAP-AF score and epicardial adipose tissue thickness for early recurrence after catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation patients.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Clinical, Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Pulmonary Vein Isolation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- New Radiomic Markers of Pulmonary Vein Morphology Associated With Post-Ablation Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2022Article
- Evaluation of predictive scores for late and very late recurrence after cryoballoon-based ablation of atrial fibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2021Article
- Predicting long-term freedom from atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation by a machine learning algorithm: Validation of the CAAP-AF score.Journal of arrhythmia · 2020Article
- Predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence after ablation in patients with heart failure: Validity of the APPLE and CAAP-AF risk scoring systems.Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE · 2019Observational
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Abstract
purposeIn the present study, we aimed to test the value of CAAP-AF score for prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence at follow-up in a group of our patients treated by balloon cryoablation.
methodsA total of 283 symptomatic drug-refractory AF patients [261 (92%) with paroxysmal AF] who underwent pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) with second-generation cryoballoon between April 2012 and October 2016 were included. The CAAP-AF score was calculated for every patient.
resultsA total of 283 patients [68 female (20%), mean age 59.8 ± 11.4 years] were included in the present analysis. Eighty-nine patients (31%) had hypertension and 13 (4%) had coronary artery disease. The mean left atrial diameter and left ventricular ejection fraction were 40.6 ± 7.0 mm and 60.0 ± 9.1%, respectively. The mean CHA
conclusionsThe present analysis suggests the usefulness of CAAP-AF scoring system, with its simple and easily obtained six clinical variables, to predict AF recurrence after PVI by means of second-generation cryoballoon. A score value ≥5 predicted AF recurrence with a sensitivity 64% and specificity 68%.
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