Increased risk of sudden and non-sudden cardiovascular death in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter following acute myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 290-295

  Pedersen, Ole Dyg ^a   Abildstrøm, Steen Z ^b   Ottesen, Michael M ^c   Rask Madsen, Christian ^a   Bagger, Henning ^d   Køber, Lars ^e   Torp Pedersen, Christian ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Myocardial infarction; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 30744461349     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi629     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. 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;98:946-952.
2. 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.
3. Carson PE, Johnson GR, Dunkman WB, Fletcher RD, Farrell L, Cohn JN. The influence of atrial fibrillation on prognosis in mild to moderate heart failure. The V-HeFT Studies. The V-HeFT VA Cooperative Studies Group. Circulation 1993;87:VI102-VI110.
4. Bigger JT Jr. Epidemiological and mechanistic studies of atrial fibrillation as a basis for treatment strategies. Circulation 1998;98:943-945.
5. Pedersen OD, Bagger H, Kober L, Torp-Pedersen C. The occurrence and prognostic significance of atrial fibrillation/-flutter following acute myocardial infarction. TRACE Study group. TRAndolapril Cardiac Evaluation. Eur Heart J 1999;20:748-754.
6. Wong CK, White HD, Wilcox RG, Criger DA, Califf RM, Topol EJ, Ohman EM. New atrial fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction independently predicts death: the GUSTO-MI experience. Am Heart J 2000;140:878-885.
7. Rathore SS, Berger AK, Weinfurt KP, Schulman KA, Oetgen WJ, Gersh BJ, Solomon AJ. Acute myocardial infarction complicated by atrial fibrillation in the elderly: prevalence and outcomes. Circulation 2000;101:969-974.
8. Pizzetti F, Turazza FM, Franzosi MG, Barlera S, Ledda A, Maggioni AP, Santoro L, Tognoni G, GISSI-3 Investigators. Incidence and prognostic significance of atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction: the GISSI-3 data. Heart 2001;86:527-532.
9. Eldar M, Canetti M, Rotstein Z, Boyko V, Gottlieb S, Kaplinsky E, Behar S. Significance of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation complicating acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era. SPRINT and Thrombolytic Survey Groups. Circulation 1998;97:965-970.
10. The Trace Study Group. The TRAndolapril Cardiac Evaluation (TRACE) study: rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the screened population. Am J Cardiol 1994;73:44C-50C.
11. Kober L, Torp-Pedersen C, Carlsen J, Videbaek R, Egeblad H. An echocardiographic method for selecting high risk patients shortly after acute myocardial infarction, for inclusion in multi-centre studies (as used in the TRACE study). TRAndolapril Cardiac Evaluation. Eur Heart J 1994;15:1616-1620.
12. Berning J, Rokkedal Nielsen J, Launbjerg J, Fogh J, Mickley H, Andersen PE. Rapid estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction in acute myocardial infarction by echocardiographic wall motion analysis. Cardiology 1992;80:257-266.
13. Abildstrom SZ, Rask-Madsen C, Ottesen MM, Andersen PK, Rosthoj S, Torp-Pedersen C, Kober L, TRACE Study Group. Impact of age and sex on sudden cardiovascular death following myocardial infarction. Heart 2002;88:573-578.
14. Andersen PK, Abildstrom SZ, Rosthoj S. Competing risks as a multi-state model. Stat Methods Med Res 2002;11:203-215.
15. Rosthoj S, Andersen PK, Abildstrom SZ. SAS macros for estimation of the cumulative incidence functions based on a Cox regression model for competing risks survival data. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2004;74:69-75.
16. Roy D, Brugada P, Wellens HJ. Atrial tachycardia facilitating initiation of ventricular tachycardia. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 1983;6:47-52.
17. Somberg JC, Torres V, Keren G, Butler B, Tepper D, Kleinbaum H, Molnar J. Enhancement of myocardial vulnerability by atrial fibrillation. Am J Ther 2004;11:33-43.
18. Stein KM, Euler DE, Mehra R, Seidl K, Slotwiner DJ, Mittal S, Markowitz SM. Do atrial tachyarrhythmias beget ventricular tachyarrhythmias in defibrillator recipients? J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;40:335-340.
19. Gronefeld GC, Mauss O, Li YG, Klingenheben T, Hohnloser SH. Association between atrial fibrillation and appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy: results from a prospective study. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2000;11:1208-1214.
20. Baldasseroni S, De Biase L, Fresco C, Marchionni N, Marini M, Masotti G, Orsini G, Porcu M, Pozzar F, Scherillo M, Maggioni AP; Italian Network on Congestive Heart Failure. Cumulative effect of complete left bundle-branch block and chronic atrial fibrillation on 1-year mortality and hospitalization in patients with congestive heart failure. A report from the Italian network on congestive heart failure (in-CHF database). Eur Heart J 2002;23:1692-1698.
21. Dries DL, Exner DV, Gersh BJ, Domanski MJ, Waclawiw MA, Stevenson LW. Atrial fibrillation is associated with an increased risk for mortality and heart failure progression in patients with asymptomatic and symptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a retrospective analysis of the SOLVD trials. Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;32:695-703.
22. Abildstrom SZ, Torp-Pedersen C, Kober L. Arrhythmic and sudden death in chronic ischemic heart disease - a review of epidemiological data. Card Electrophysiol Rev 2002;6:5-8.
23. Moss AJ, Zareba W, Hall WJ, Klein H, Wilber DJ, Cannom DS, Daubert JP, Higgins SL, Brown MW, Andrews ML, the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II Investigators. Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction. N Engl J Med 2002;346:877-883.