ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2022
Alcohol Consumption Is Associated With Postablation Recurrence but Not Changes in Atrial Substrate in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Insight from a High-Density Mapping Study.
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- Lifestyle modification in atrial fibrillation: Mechanisms, phenotypes and ablation outcomes.Experimental physiology · 2026Review
- The impact of left atrial voltage abnormality on ablation outcomes in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and its pre-procedural predictors: an observational retrospective study.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- How to Demonstrate the Association Between the Inflammation and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence.Clinical cardiology · 2025Article
- 2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.Journal of arrhythmia · 2024Article
- 2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2024Article
- Effect of hyperuricemia on paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation and influence of alcohol consumption.Journal of arrhythmia · 2024Article
- 2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.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 · 2024Article
- Alcohol and Atrial Fibrillation.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background The association between alcohol consumption, atrial substrate, and outcomes after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation remains controversial. This study evaluated the impacts of drinking on left atrial substrate and AF recurrence after ablation. Methods and Results We prospectively enrolled 110 patients with AF without structural heart disease (64±12 years) from 2 institutions. High-density left atrial electroanatomic mapping was performed using a high-density grid multipolar catheter. We investigated the impact of alcohol consumption on left atrial voltage, left atrial conduction velocity, and AF ablation outcome. Patients were classified as abstainers (<1 drink/wk), mild drinkers (1-7 drinks/wk), or moderate-heavy drinkers (>7 drinks/wk). High-density mapping (mean 2287±600 points/patient) was performed on 49 abstainers, 27 mild drinkers, and 34 moderate-heavy drinkers. Low-voltage zone and slow-conduction zone were identified in 39 (35%) and 54 (49%) patients, respectively. There was no significant difference in the proportions of low-voltage zone and slow-conduction zone among the 3 groups. The success rate after a single ablation was significantly lower in drinkers than in abstainers (79.3% versus 95.9% at 12 months; mean follow-up, 18±8 months;
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