Efficacy and Safety of SATAKE HotBalloon® Catheter for Treatment of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation―A Post-Marketing Surveillance Study―

Y Yoshida, T Yamane, S Nakahara, A Kobori… - Circulation …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… symptomatic paroxysmal AF refractory to antiarrhythmic ther… , underlying disease,
CHA2DS2-VASc score, and anatomical … Any relationship to the device or procedure is unknown. …

[HTML][HTML] Heart failure risk in patients with atrial fibrillation treated with catheter ablation vs antiarrhythmic drugs

M Gruber, M Iglesias, R Khanna, D Zhang, S Karim - Heart Rhythm O2, 2023 - Elsevier
… Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation) … Given the established
relationship between AF and HF, we … effect size seemed to be slightly larger among paroxysmal

[HTML][HTML] Novel model-based point scoring system for predicting stroke risk in atrial fibrillation patients: Results from a nationwide cohort study with validation

YY Chen, YJ Lin, KL Chien, TF Chao, LW Lo… - IJC Heart & …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Anti-arrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation [CABANA] and … Prior studies suggested
that AF patients with CHADS 2 score … The reason of non-significant ablation effect on reducing …

Decreasing time between first diagnosis of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and cryoballoon ablation positively affects long-term consequences

E Baysal, M Okşul, C Burak, K Yalin, AU Soysal… - Journal of Interventional …, 2022 - Springer
drug therapy; however, when a patient becomes drug refractory (… refractory PAF with regard
to the primary safety and efficacyCHA2DS2-VASc scores were calculated for each patient

Evolving contemporary management of atrial fibrillation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

EJ Rowin, MS Link, MS Maron, BJ Maron - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
… ; albeit safe, long-term efficacy is supported by only limited data… demonstrated a linear
relationship between LA size and AF … repeat ablations and antiarrhythmic drugs therapy over follow…

Catheter ablation vs. antiarrhythmic drugs as 'first-line'initial therapy for atrial fibrillation: a pooled analysis of randomized data

S Chen, H Puererfellner, F Ouyang, MG Kiuchi… - EP …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… -line therapy on AF with respect to the clinical efficacy and … of CA in treating AF enrolled
patients in whom drug therapy had failed. A … The mean CHA2DS2-VASc score was 1.5. All these …

It's all about improvement of quality of life and reduction of disease burden in atrial fibrillation ablation

A Elvan - Heart, 2021 - heart.bmj.com
… to catheter ablation compared with drug therapy.2 However, the effect of AF ablation on …
The investigators identified higher pre-ablation AFEQT and CHA2DS2-VASc scores and …

The effect of left atrial remodeling after cryoballoon ablation and radiofrequency ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

X Wang, B Song, C Qiu, Z Han, X Wang… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… according to the CHA2DS2-VASc score. We enrolled … or to have used an antiarrhythmic
drug before matching. Five … An important difference between our study and the aforementioned …

Systematic, early rhythm control strategy for atrial fibrillation in patients with or without symptoms: the EAST-AFNET 4 trial

S Willems, K Borof, A Brandes, G Breithardt… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… the effect of early rhythm control therapy in asymptomatic … explore relations between
symptoms and outcomes, patients … AF ablation to medical therapy in patients with AF and severe …

[HTML][HTML] Subclinical and asymptomatic atrial fibrillation: current evidence and unsolved questions in clinical practice

A Ballatore, M Matta, A Saglietto, P Desalvo… - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
… the complex pathophysiological links between AF, dementia, and … heart failure and
antiarrhythmic drugs adverse effect rate) in … , in the medical therapy cohort CHADS2 score was …