Surface atrial frequency analysis in patients with atrial fibrillation: Assessing the effects of linear left atrial ablation

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 838-844

  Raine, Dan ^a   Langley, Philip ^a   Murray, Alan ^a   Furniss, Stephen S ^a   Bourke, John P ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; ECG; Frequency analysis; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27744517419     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2005.40456.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Feinberg WM, Blackshear JL, Laupacis A, Kronmal R, Hart RG: Prevalence, age distribution, and gender of patients with atrial fibrillation. Analysis and implications. Arch Intern Med 1995;155:469-473.
2. Hart RG, Halperin JL: Atrial fibrillation and stroke: Concepts and controversies. Stroke 2001;32:803-808.
3. Benjamin EJ, Wolf PA, D'Agostino RB, Silbershatz H, Kannel WB, Levy D: Impact of atrial fibrillation on the risk of death: The Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 1998;98:946-953.
4. Middlekauff HR, Stevenson WG, Stevenson LW: Prognostic significance of atrial fibrillation in advanced heart failure: A study of 390 patients. Circulation 1991;84:40-48.
5. Wijffels MCEF, Kirchhof CJHF, Dorland R, Allessie MA: Atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation: A study in awake chronically instrumented goats. Circulation 1995;92:1954-1968.
6. Wijffels MCEF, Kirchhof CJHF, Dorland R, Power J, Allessie MA: Electrical remodeling due to atrial fibrillation in chronically instrumented conscious goats: Role of neurohormonal changes, ischemia, atrial stretch, and high rate of electrical activation. Circulation 1997;96:3710-3720.
7. Fujiki A, Sakebe M, Nishida K, Mizumaki K, Inoue H: Role of fibrillation cycle length in spontaneous and drug induced termination of human atrial fibrillation: Spectral analysis of fibrillation waves from surface electrocardiogram. Circ J 2003;67:391-395.
8. Boahene K, Klein GJ, Yee R, Sharma A, Fujimura O: Termination of acute atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome by procainamide and propafenone: Importance of atrial fibrillatory cycle length. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990;16:1408-1414.
9. Wijffels MCEF, Dorland R, Mast F, Allessie MA: Widening of the excitable gap during pharmacological cardioversion of atrial fibrillation in the goat: Effects of cibenzoline, hydroquinidine, flecainide and d-sotalol. Circulation 2000;102:260-267.
10. Raine D, Langley P, Murray A, Dunuwille A, Bourke JP: Surface 12-lead ECG waveform analysis in patients with atrial fibrillation: A tool for evaluating the effects of intervention. J Card Electrophysiol 2004;15:1021-1026.
11. Cox JL, Schuessler RB, Lappas DG, Boineau JP: An 8 1/2 year clinical experience with surgery for atrial fibrillation. Ann Surg 1996;224:267-275.
12. Kosakai Y, Kawaguchi AT, Isobe F: Modified Maze procedure for patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing simultaneous open heart surgery. Circulation 1995;92:359-364.
13. Moe GK, Rheinboldt WC, Abildskov JA: A computer model of atrial fibrillation. Am Heart J 1964;67:200-220.
14. Allessie MA, Rensma PL, Brugada J, Smeets JLRM, Penn O, Kirchhof CJHJ: Pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation. In: Zipes DP, Jalife J, eds. Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1990;548-559.
15. Ernst S, Shluter M, Ouyang F: Modification of the substrate for maintenance of idiopathic human atrial fibrillation: Efficacy of radiofrequency ablation using nonfluoroscopic catheter guidance. Circulation 1999;100:2085-2092.
16. Pappone C, Oreto G, Lamberti F: Catheter ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation using a 3D mapping system. Circulation 1999;100:1203-1208.
17. Haissaguerre M, Jais P, Shah DC: Right and left atrial radiofrequency catheter therapy of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 1996;7:1132-1144.
18. Pappone C, Rosanio S, Oreto G: Circumferential radiofrequency ablation of pulmonary vein ostia: A new anatomic approach for curing atrial fibrillation. Circulation 2000;102:2619-2628.
19. Ernst S, Ouyang F, Lober F, Antz M, Kuck K-H: Catheter-induced linear lesions in the left atrium in patients with atrial fibrillation: An electroanatomic study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;104:2539-2544.
20. Haissaguerre M, Sanders P, Jais P, Hocini M, Clementy J: Fibrillatory cycle length for monitoring substrate modification during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm 2004;1S:142.
21. Bourke JP, Dunuwille A, O'Donnell D, Jamieson SC, Furniss SS: Pulmonary vein ablation for idiopathic atrial fibrillation: Six-month outcome of first procedure in 100 consecutive patients. Heart 2005;91:51-57.
22. Joliffe IT: Principal Component Analysis. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986.
23. Langley P, Bourke JP, Murray A: Frequency analysis of atrial fibrillation. Comput Cardiol 2000;27:65-68.
24. Loperfido F, Pannestri F, Digaetano A, Manzoli U: Assessment of left atrial dimension by cross-sectional echocardiography in patients with mitral valve disease. Br Heart J 1983;50:570-578.