作者
Elena Arbelo, Josep Brugada, Gerhard Hindricks, Aldo Maggioni, Luigi Tavazzi, Panos Vardas, Frédéric Anselme, Giuseppe Inama, Pierre Jais, Zbigniew Kalarus, Josef Kautzner, Thorsten Lewalter, Georges Mairesse, Julian Perez-Villacastin, Sam Riahi, Milos Taborsky, George Theodorakis, Serge Trines
发表日期
2012/8/1
期刊
Europace
卷号
14
期号
8
页码范围
1094-1103
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Aims
The Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Pilot Study is a prospective, multinational registry conducted by the European Heart Rhythm Association of the European Society of Cardiology that has been designed to describe the clinical epidemiology of patients undergoing an atrial fibrillation (AFib) ablation procedure, and the diagnostic/therapeutic processes applied in these patients across Europe. We present the results of the short-term (in-hospital) analysis.
Methods and results
A total of 72 centres in 10 European countries were asked to enrol 20 consecutive patients scheduled for a first AFib ablation procedure. Between October 2010 and May 2011, 1410 patients were included, of which 1391 underwent an AFib ablation (98.7%). The median age was 60 years [inter-quartile range (IQR) 52–66], and 28% were females. Two-thirds presented paroxysmal AFib and 38% lone AFib …
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