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The relationship of early recurrence of atrial fibrillation and the 3-month integrity of the ablation lesion set.
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- Durability of pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis and systematic review.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 · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of Amiodarone and Propafenone in Blanking Period after Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.BioMed research international · 2020Trial
- Optimized workflow for pentaspline PFA and its impact on PVI durability: evidence from systematic remapping.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 · 2026Article
- Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Late Recurrence and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events After Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation: A Clinical Nomogram Model.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical and electrophysiological significance of residual unipolar voltage after performing pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.Journal of arrhythmia · 2025Article
- Association of Paroxysmal Versus Persistent Atrial Fibrillation with In-hospital Outcomes and 30-day Readmission After Inpatient Atrial Fibrillation Ablation.The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management · 2024Article
- Impact of ABO blood type on the risk of atrial fibrillation recurrence after catheter ablation.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2024Article
- Prognostic implication of early recurrence after cryoballoon ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2024Article
- Machine learning model for predicting late recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Re-recognize early recurrence of persistent atrial fibrillation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Serum periostin as a predictor of early recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation.Heart and vessels · 2022Article
- Association between early recurrences of atrial tachyarrhythmias and long-term outcomes in patients after repeat atrial fibrillation ablation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2022Article
- Early arrhythmia recurrence after catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation: is it predictive for late recurrence?Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2022Article
- Predictors of Recurrence of AF in Patients After Radiofrequency Ablation.European cardiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Early recurrence of atrial fibrillation (ERAF) after catheter-ablation (CA) can be a transient phenomenon due to inflammation, or a harbinger of late AF recurrence due to CA lesion (re)conduction. We studied the relationship between ERAF and the 3-month CA lesions integrity. Forty one consecutive AF patients who underwent a pulmonary vein isolation (PVI), roof line (RL) and mitral isthmus line (MIL) CA were enrolled. At 3 months all patients underwent invasive assessment of the lesion set integrity irrespective of ERAF. The PVI, RL and MIL ablation was successful in 100.0%, 95.1% and 82.9% patients, respectively. At the 3-month remapping, a gap in PVI-lesion(s), RL or MIL was identified in 61.0%, 31.7% and 36.6% patients, respectively. Patients with (n = 17, 41.5%) compared to those without ERAF (n = 24) had a significantly higher rate of any PV-reconnection (88.2% vs. 41.7%), the right PV(s)-reconnection (82.5% vs. 29.2%) and the RL gap (52.9% vs. 16.7%), as well as a higher number of reconnected right PVI-segments, all p < 0.05. On multivariate analysis, only the number of reconnected right PVI-segments was associated with ERAF (OR 4.26, p = 0.004). The ERAF following PVI + RL + MIL ablation was significantly related to 3-month PV-reconnections and the presence of RL gaps.
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