Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in heart failure patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator or cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

atrial fibrillation episode intracardiac electrocardiogram

Journal

Archives of medical science : AMS
ISSN: 1734-1922
Titre abrégé: Arch Med Sci
Pays: Poland
ID NLM: 101258257

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 08 10 2019
accepted: 01 12 2019
entrez: 13 12 2021
pubmed: 14 12 2021
medline: 14 12 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators register various types of arrhythmias. Thus they can be exploited to better identify patients with atrial fibrillation episodes and increase the proportion of patients who may benefit from implementation of pharmacological prophylaxis of thromboembolic events, most of which are asymptomatic. The aim of the study was to assess of the frequency, symptoms and predisposing factors for the occurrence of atrial fibrillation episodes in patients with an implanted implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) based on the analysis of intracardiac electrocardiograms (EGM/IEGM) records. The study included 174 consecutive outpatients with heart failure, sinus rhythm and an implanted cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator. Follow-up visits with analysis of IEGM records occurred every 3 months. During a mean follow-up of 20 months, 901 visits were carried out. One hundred forty-seven patients had at least 1 year of follow-up. Atrial fibrillation episodes in the study group occurred in 54 (31.0%) patients and 71.4% were asymptomatic. Predisposing factors were: history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (37.0% vs. 13.3%, Episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with systolic heart failure and implanted cardioverter-defibrillator systems are quite common. The majority of the episodes recorded in the study were asymptomatic.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34900037
doi: 10.5114/aoms/114977
pii: 114977
pmc: PMC8641502
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1583-1589

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Termedia & Banach.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Barbara Dominik (B)

Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Zielona Gora, Poland.

Przemyslaw Mitkowski (P)

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Poznan, Poland.

Wojciech Zorawski (W)

Department of Cardiology, Multidisciplinary Hospital, Nowa Sol, Poland.

Ilona Kowalik (I)

Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.

Adam Ciesielski (A)

Department of Cardiology, Multidisciplinary Hospital, Nowa Sol, Poland.

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