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ArticleJournal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing2022

Daily ECG transmission versus serial 6-day Holter ECG for the assessment of efficacy of ablation for atrial fibrillation - the AGNES-ECG study.

Agnieszka Sikorska, Jakub Baran, Roman Piotrowski, Tomasz Kryński, Joanna Szymot, Małgorzata Soszyńska, Piotr Kułakowski

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Article in Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2 · The registry

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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03877913 completednot on this map

Daily ECG Transmission Versus Serial 7-day Holter ECG for Assessment of Efficacy of Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation - the AGNES-ECG Study

TypeobservationalSponsorCentre of Postgraduate Medical EducationRan2018 to 2021Enrolled51ConditionsAtrial Fibrillation
NCT05959915 completednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

ECG Monitoring Short vs Middle Term After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

TypeobservationalSponsorHospital Clinic of BarcelonaRan2023 to 2025Enrolled96ConditionsAtrial FibrillationArmsdevice e-patch Implantation
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Agnieszka SikorskaCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland. sikorska.agnieszka.anna@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6818-2830
Jakub BaranCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Roman PiotrowskiCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Tomasz KryńskiCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Joanna SzymotCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Małgorzata SoszyńskaCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Piotr KułakowskiCentre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Department of Cardiology, Grochowski Hospital, Grenadierów 51/59, 08-073, Warsaw, Poland.
Grochowski Hospital · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo compare daily ECG transmissions using trans-telephonic monitoring (TTM) with repeated 6-day Holter ECG in detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes following ablation.

methodsEach patient underwent two types of recordings: daily ECG TTM lasting 30 s and standard 6-day ambulatory ECG monitoring performed 3, 6, and 12 months after ablation. Number of patients with detected AF recurrences, time to first detected recurrence of AF, and AF burden were assessed.

resultsFifty patients (9 females, mean age 57 ± 11 years) were included. The mean duration of the follow-up was 382 ± 38 days. A total of 17,573 (mean 351 ± 111 per patient) TTM recordings were performed and 99.95% of recordings were of quality sufficient to assess cardiac rhythm. Altogether, 14 (28%) patients had AF recurrence. Holter ECG detected AF recurrence in 7 (14%) patients whereas TTM - in 12 (24%) patients, p = 0.0416 (TTM only - 7 (14%), Holter ECG only - 2 (4%), and both methods - 5 (10%)). Time to the first AF recurrence tended to be shorter using TTM than Holter ECG (156 ± 91 vs 204 ± 121 days, p = 0.0819). There was no significant difference in AF burden assessed by TTM versus Holter ECG recordings 3.1 ± 0.14% vs 4.8 ± 0.2%, p = 0.21.

conclusionsCompared with Holter ECG, daily 30-s ECG recordings detected more patients with AF recurrences. Time to first detected AF episode tended to be shorter using TTM. Daily ECG recordings transmitted using smartphone may replace standard Holter ECG in detecting AF after ablation.

trial registrationClinical Trials Identifier: NCT03877913.

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Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationAgedElectrocardiographyElectrocardiography, AmbulatoryFemaleHumansMiddle AgedRecurrenceTreatment OutcomeAblationAtrial fibrillationHolter ECGMobile ECG

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