The Role of Atrial Remodeling for Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 474-480

  Grubitzsch, Herko ^a   Menes, Alexandro ^a   Modersohn, Diethelm ^a   Konertz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349132573     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.09.047     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Benjamin E.J., Wolf P.A., D′Agostino R.B., Silbershatz H., Kannel W.B., and Levy D. Impact of atrial fibrillation on the risk of death: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 98 (1998) 946-952
2. Chesebro J.H., Fuster V., and Halperin J.L. Atrial fibrillation-risk marker for stroke. N Engl J Med 323 (1990) 1556-1558
3. Grigioni F., Avierinos J.F., Ling L.H., et al. Atrial fibrillation complicating the course of degenerative mitral regurgitation: determinants and long-term outcome. J Am Coll Cardiol 40 (2002) 84-92
4. Gillinov A.M. Ablation of atrial fibrillation with mitral valve surgery. Curr Opin Cardiol 20 (2005) 107-114
5. Cox J.L., Schuessler R.B., D'Agostino Jr. H.J., et al. The surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. III. Development of a definitive surgical procedure. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 101 (1991) 569-583
6. Kottkamp H., Hindricks G., Hammel D., et al. Intraoperative radiofrequency ablation of chronic atrial fibrillation: a left atrial curative approach by elimination of anatomic anchor reentrant circuits. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 10 (1999) 772-780
7. Grubitzsch H., Beholz S., Dohmen P., Dushe S., and Konertz W. Does energy modality determine results of atrial fibrillation ablation?. Thorac Cardiov Surg 55 suppl 1 (2007) 71
8. Grubitzsch H., Beholz S., Dohmen P., Dushe S., Liu J., and Konertz W. Ablation of atrial fibrillation in valvular heart surgery: are results determined by underlying valve disease?. J Heart Valve Dis 16 (2007) 76-83
9. Allessie M., Ausma J., and Schotten U. Electrical, contractile and structural remodelling during atrial fibrillation. Cardiovasc Res 54 (2002) 230-246
10. Bollmann A., Husser D., Stridh M., et al. Frequency measures obtained from the surface electrocardiogram in atrial fibrillation research and clinical decision making. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 14 suppl (2003) S154-S161
11. Schotten U., Ausma J., Stellbrink C., et al. Cellular mechanisms of depressed atrial contractility in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation. Circulation 103 (2001) 691-698
12. Bollmann A., Kanuru N.K., McTeague K.K., Walter P.F., DeLurgio D.B., and Langberg J.J. Frequency analysis of human atrial fibrillation using the surface electrocardiogram and its response to ibutilide. Am J Cardiol 81 (1998) 1439-1445
13. Bollmann A., Binias K.H., Toepffer I., Molling J., Geller C., and Klein H.U. Importance of left atrial diameter and atrial fibrillatory frequency for conversion of persistent atrial fibrillation with oral flecainide. Am J Cardiol 90 (2002) 1011-1014
14. Fuster V., Rydén L.E., Cannom D.S., et al. ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 48 (2006) e149-e246
15. Cox J.L. Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation: a review. Europace 5 (2004) S20-S29
16. Wijffels M.C., Kirchhof C.J., Dorland R., and Allessie M.A. Atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation. A study in awake chronically instrumented goats. Circulation 92 (1995) 1954-1968
17. Bollmann A., Sonne K., Esperer H.D., et al. Non-invasive assessment of fibrillatory activity in patients with paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation using the Holter ECG. Cardiovasc Res 44 (1999) 60-66
18. Sasaki T., Niwano S., Sasaki S., et al. Long-term follow-up of changes in fibrillation waves in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation-spectral analysis of surface ECG. Circ J 70 (2006) 169-173
19. Manning W.J., Silverman D.I., Katz S.E., et al. Impaired left atrial mechanical function after cardioversion: relation to the duration of atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 23 (1994) 1535-1540
20. Schotten U., de Haan S., Neuberger H.R., et al. Loss of atrial contractility is primary cause of atrial dilatation during first days of atrial fibrillation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 287 (2004) H2324-H2331
21. Ausma J., van der Velden H.M.W., Lenders M.H., et al. Reverse structural and gag-junctional remodeling after prolonged atrial fibrillation in the goat. Circulation 107 (2003) 2051-2058
22. Gaynor S.L., Schuessler R.B., Bailey M.S., et al. Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation: predictors of late recurrence. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 129 (2005) 104-111
23. Gillinov A.M., Sirak J., Blackstone E.H., et al. The Cox maze procedure in mitral valve disease: predictors of recurrent atrial fibrillation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 130 (2005) 1653-1660
24. Chen M.C., Chang J.P., Chang H.W., et al. Clinical determinants of sinus conversion by radiofrequency maze procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing concomitant mitral valvular surgery. Am J Cardiol 96 (2005) 1553-1557
25. Schotten U., and Allessie M. Electrical and contractile remodeling during atrial fibrillation go hand-in-hand. PACE 24 (2001) 572
26. Grubitzsch H., Beholz S., Dohmen P., Dushe S., Liu J., and Konertz W. Concomitant ablation of atrial fibrillation: are results associated with surgeon's experience?. J Card Surg 22 (2007) 300-305