Atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery: A model for preoperative risk stratification

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1403-1408

  Zaman, Azfar G ^a,e   Archbold, R Andrew ^c   Helft, Gérard ^b   Paul, Elizabeth A ^d   Curzen, Nicholas P ^c   Mills, Peter G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Arrhythmia; Fibrillation; Men; Sex; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034724433     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.12.1403     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Creswell LL, Schuessler RB, Rosenbloom M, Cox JL. Hazards of postoperative atrial arrhythmias. Ann Thorac Surg. 1993;56:539-549.
2. Aranki SF, Shaw DP, Adams DH, Rizzo RJ, Couper GS, VanderVliet M, Collins JJ Jr, Cohn LH, Burstin HR. Predictors of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery surgery: current trends and impact on hospital resources. Circulation. 1996;94:390-397.
3. Mathew JP, Parks R, Savino JS, Friedman AS, Koch C, Mangano DT, Browner WS, for the Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischaemia Research Group. Atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: predictors, outcomes, and resource utilization. JAMA. 1996;276:300-306.
4. Kowey PR, Dalessandro DA, Herbertson R, Briggs B, Wertan MA, Rials SJ, Filart RA, Marinchak RA. Effectiveness of digitalis with or without acebutolol in preventing atrial arrhythmias after coronary artery surgery. Am J Cardiol. 1997;79:1114-1117.
5. Rubin DA, Nieminski KE, Reed GE, Herman MV. Predictors, prevention and long-term prognosis of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass graft operations. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1987;94: 331-335.
6. Borzak S, Tisdale JE, Amin NB, Goldberg AD, Frank D, Padhi ID, Higgins RS. Atrial fibrillation after bypass surgery: does the arrhythmia or the characteristics of the patients prolong hospital stay? Chest. 1998;113:1489-1491.
7. Taylor GJ, Malik SA, Colliver JA, Dove JT, Moses HW, Mikell FL, Batchelder JE, Schneider JA, Wellons HA. Usefulness of atrial fibrillation as a predictor of stroke after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting. Am J Cardiol. 1987;60:905-907.
8. Reed GL. III, Singer DE, Picard EH, DeSanctis RW. Stroke following coronary artery bypass surgery: a case-control estimate of the risk from carotid bruits. N Engl J Med. 1988;319:1246-1250.
9. Fuller JA, Adams GG, Buxton B. Atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting: is it a disorder of the elderly? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1989;97:821-825.
10. Leitch JW, Thomson D, Baird DK, Harris PJ. The importance of age as a predictor of atrial fibrillation and flutter after coronary artery bypass grafting. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1990;100:338-342.
11. Mendes LA, Connelly GP, McKenney PA, Podrid PJ, Cupples LA, Shemin RJ, Ryan TJ, Davidoff R. Right coronary artery stenosis: an independent predictor of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1995;25:198-202.
12. Zaman AG, Alamgir F, Richens T, Williams R, Rothman MT, Mills PG. The role of signal averaged P wave duration and serum magnesium as a combined predictor of atrial fibrillation after elective coronary artery bypass surgery. Heart. 1997;77:527-531.
13. Steinberg JS, Zelenkofske S, Wong SC, Gelernt M, Sciacca R, Menchavez E. Value of the P-wave signal-averaged ECG for predicting atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. Circulation. 1993;88: 2618-2622.
14. Klein M, Evans SJ, Blumberg S, Cataldo L, Bodenheimer MM. Use of P-wave-triggered, P-wave signal-averaged electrocardiogram to predict atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery. Am Heart J. 1995;129:895-901.
15. Stafford PJ, Kolvekar S, Cooper J, Fothergill J, Schlindwein F, deBono DP, Spyt TJ, Garratt CJ. Signal-averaged P-wave compared with standard electrocardiography or echocardiography for prediction of atrial fibrillation after coronary bypass grafting. Heart. 1997;77: 417-422.
16. Noyez L, Janssen DP, van Druten JA, Skotnicki SH, Lacquet LK. Coronary bypass surgery: what is changing? Analysis of 3834 patients undergoing primary isolated myocardial revascularisation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1998;13:365-369.
17. Wolf PA, Abbott RD, Kannel WB. Atrial fibrillation: a major contributor to stroke in the elderly: the Framingham Study. Arch Intern Med. 1987;147:1561-1564.
18. Wolf PA, Abbott RD, Kannel WB. Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study. Stroke. 1991; 22:983-988.
19. Davies MJ, Pomerance A. Pathology of atrial fibrillation in man. Br Heart J. 1972;34:520-525.
20. Spach MS, Dolber PC. Relating extracellular potentials and their derivatives to anisotropic propagation at a microscopic level in human cardiac muscle: evidence for electrical uncoupling of side-to-side fiber connections with increasing age. Circ Res. 1986;58:356-371.
21. Moe GK. On the multiple wavelet hypothesis of atrial fibrillation. Arch Intern Pharmacodyn Ther. 1962;140:183-188.
22. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Atrial Fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation: current understandings and research imperatives. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;22:1830-1834.
23. Cox JL, Schuessler RB, Boineau JP. The surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, I: summary of the current concepts of the mechanisms of atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1991; 101:402-425.
24. Flegel KM. From delirium cordis to atrial fibrillation: historical development of a disease concept. Ann Intern Med. 1995;122:867-873.
25. Simpson RJ Jr, Foster JR, Gettes LS. Atrial excitability and conduction in patients with interatrial conduction defects. Am J Cardiol. 1982;50:1331-1337.
26. Cosio FG, Palacios J, Vidal JM, Cocina EG, Gomez-Sanchez MA, Tamargo L. Electrophysiological studies in atrial fibrillation: slow conduction of premature impulses: a possible manifestation of the background for re-entry. Am J Cardiol. 1983;51:122-130.
27. Buxton AE, Waxman HL, Marchlinski FE, Josephson ME. Atrial conduction: effects of extrastimuli with and without atrial dysrhythmias. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54:755-761.
28. Simpson Jr RJ, Amara I, Foster JR, Woelfel A, Gettes LS. Thresholds, refractory periods, and conduction times of the normal and diseased human atrium. Am Heart J. 1986;116:1080-1090.
29. Kumagai K, Akimitsu S, Kawahira K, Kawanami F, Yamanouchi Y, Hiroki T, Arakawa K. Electrophysiological properties in chronic lone atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 1991;84:1662-1668.
30. Cox JL. A perspective of postoperative atrial fibrillation in cardiac operations. Ann Thorac Surg. 1993;56:405-409.
31. Crosby LH, Pifalo WB, Woll KR, Burkholder JA. Risk factors for atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting. Am J Cardiol. 1990;66:1520-1522.
32. Suttorp MJ, Kingma JH, Tjon Joe Gin RM, van Hemel NM, Koomen EM, Defauw JA, Adan AJ, Ernst SM. Efficacy and safety of low and high dose sotalol versus propranolol in the prevention of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias early after coronary artery bypass operations. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1990;100:921-926.
33. Faggiano P, D'Aloia A, Zanelli E, Gualeni A, Musatti P, Giordano A. Contribution of left atrial pressure and dimension to signal-averaged P-wave duration in patients with chronic congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 1997;79:219-222.
34. White HD, Antman EM, Glynn MA, Collins JJ, Cohn LH, Shemin RJ, Friedman PL. Efficacy and safety of timolol for prevention of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias after coronary artery bypass surgery. Circulation. 1984;70:479-484.
35. Ali IM, Sanalla AA, Clark V. Beta-blocker effects on postoperative atrial fibrillation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1997;11:1154-1157.
36. Daoud EG, Strickberger SA, Man KC, Goyal R, Deeb GM, Bolling SF, Pagani FD, Bitar C, Meissner MD, Morady F. Preoperative amiodarone as prophylaxis against atrial fibrillation after heart surgery. N Engl J Med. 1997;337:1785-1791.
37. Zaman AG, Archbold RA, Alamgir F. Amiodarone prophylaxis for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. N Engl J Med. 1998;338: 1383-1384. Letter.
38. Guidera SA, Steinberg JS. The signal-averaged P-wave duration: a rapid and noninvasive marker of risk of atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;21:1645-1651.
39. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet. 1986;1: 307-310.