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A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is increasing in prevalence due to an aging population. Although medications for rhythm and rate control remain the first-line treatment options for many patients, difficulties can include arrhythmia relapse and drug side effects. Ca...

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Autores principales: Shah, Farhan A, Mahler, Nathan, Winkle, Sean M, Fujikawa, Priscilla, Nader, Brandon, Rodriguez, Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430144
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16536
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author Shah, Farhan A
Mahler, Nathan
Winkle, Sean M
Fujikawa, Priscilla
Nader, Brandon
Rodriguez, Juan
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description Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is increasing in prevalence due to an aging population. Although medications for rhythm and rate control remain the first-line treatment options for many patients, difficulties can include arrhythmia relapse and drug side effects. Catheter ablation or radiofrequency is an alternative treatment modality that can isolate where ectopic arrhythmic sites originate. Several previous studies have examined post-ablation complications and hospitalization rates for arrhythmia recurrence. However, many of these studies used patient data from before 2015. We examined the following data using recent records: pre-procedural patient characteristics, rates of post-procedural hospitalizations with documented recurrence of AF, and patient risk factors associated with these recurrences.
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spelling pubmed-83783052021-08-23 A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Shah, Farhan A Mahler, Nathan Winkle, Sean M Fujikawa, Priscilla Nader, Brandon Rodriguez, Juan Cureus Cardiology Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is increasing in prevalence due to an aging population. Although medications for rhythm and rate control remain the first-line treatment options for many patients, difficulties can include arrhythmia relapse and drug side effects. Catheter ablation or radiofrequency is an alternative treatment modality that can isolate where ectopic arrhythmic sites originate. Several previous studies have examined post-ablation complications and hospitalization rates for arrhythmia recurrence. However, many of these studies used patient data from before 2015. We examined the following data using recent records: pre-procedural patient characteristics, rates of post-procedural hospitalizations with documented recurrence of AF, and patient risk factors associated with these recurrences. Cureus 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8378305/ /pubmed/34430144 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16536 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Shah, Farhan A
Mahler, Nathan
Winkle, Sean M
Fujikawa, Priscilla
Nader, Brandon
Rodriguez, Juan
A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_full A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_fullStr A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_full_unstemmed A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_short A Retrospective Cohort Study on Predictors for Rehospitalizations With Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Post-Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_sort retrospective cohort study on predictors for rehospitalizations with recurrence of atrial fibrillation post-catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430144
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16536
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