Authors: Hailong Tao Changsheng Ma Jianzeng Dong Xingpeng Liu Deyong Long Ronghui Yu
Publish Date: 2009/11/24
Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-39
Abstract
We retrospectively studied 520 consecutive patients with AF who were referred for circumferential pulmonary vein ablation The incidence of late TE was investigated and the predictors of late TE were identified from analysis of the basic clinical variables of patients with late TEEight 15 patients experienced late TE during 28 ± 8 months followup When TE occurred most 6/8 75 patients were documented with recurrence episode The recurrence of AF was more frequent in patients with late TE than patients without late TE 750 vs 305 P = 0007 Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified that all risk factors including all clinical variants prior ablation and the CHADS2 score were not related to late TE but the presence of recurrence was the only predictor of late TE odds ratio 5542 95 confidence interval 1416–45013 P = 0019
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