The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of left atrial thrombus (LAT) on transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) in patients with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter (AF/AFl) with refere...
The research is a sub-study of the multicentre, prospective, observational Left Atrial Thrombus on Transoesophageal Echocardiography (LATTEE) registry, which comprised 3109 consecutive patients with A...
The diagnosis of HFrEF, but neither HFmrEF nor HFpEF, confers a considerable risk of LAT presence despite widespread utilization of adequate anticoagulation....
Atrial flutter (AFL) is a macro-reentrant arrhythmia characterized, in a 12 lead ECG, by the continuous oscillation of the isoelectric line in at least one lead. In the typical form of AFL, the oscill...
Ablation of typical atrial flutter has a high safety and efficacy profile, but hidden pitfalls may be encountered. In some cases, a longer cycle length with isoelectric lines is associated with a diff...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent sustained arrhythmia. Cardioversion is a rhythm control strategy to restore normal/sinus rhythm, and can be achieved through drugs (pharmacological) or a ...
To assess the efficacy and safety of pharmacological and electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation (AF), atrial flutter and atrial tachycardias....
We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science (CPCI-S) and three trials registers (ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO ICTRP and ISRCTN) on 14 February 2023....
We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) at the individual patient level. Patient populations were aged ≥ 18 years with AF of any type and duration, atrial flutter or other sustained related at...
We used standard Cochrane methodology to collect data and performed a network meta-analysis using the standard frequentist graph-theoretical approach using the netmeta package in R. We used GRADE to a...
We included 112 RCTs (139 records), from which we pooled data from 15,968 patients. The average age ranged from 47 to 72 years and the proportion of male patients ranged from 38% to 92%. Seventy-nine ...
Despite the low quality of evidence, this systematic review provides important information on electrical and pharmacological strategies to help patients and physicians deal with AF and atrial flutter....
The risk of typical atrial flutter (AFL) is increased proportionately to right atrial (RA) size or right atrial scarring that results in reduced conduction velocity. These characteristics result in pr...
This single-centre, prospective study recruited consecutive typical AFL ablation patients that were in sinus rhythm. Controls were consecutive electrophysiology study patients >18 years of age. While ...
Ninety-eight patients were included in the analysis, 41 with atrial flutter and 57 controls. Patients with atrial flutter were older, 64.7 ± 9.7 versus 52.4 ± 16.8 years (<.001), and more often male (...
RACT is a novel and promising marker of propensity for typical AFL. This data will inform larger prospective studies....
Palpitations represent a common cause for consultation in the pediatric Emergency Department (ED). Unlike adults, palpitations in children are less frequently dependent from the heart, recognizing oth...
A 11-year-old male came to our pediatric ED for epigastric pain, vomiting and palpitations. During the previous 6 month the patient was affected by SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona...
The present study underlines the rarity of this type of dysrhythmia in childhood and the difficulties in diagnosis and management, above all in a patient who has never showed sinus rhythm. Raising awa...
In the present article, we will focus on the pharmacologic treatment of atrial flutter aimed either at restoring/maintaining sinus rhythm or controlling the ventricular response during tachyarrhythmia...
Catheter ablation has evolved as a safe treatment for atrial flutter (AFL) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH), and the recurrence of AFL may accelerate clinical decompensation. The aim of th...
All PH patients who underwent AFL ablation at Fuwai Hospital between May 2015 and December 2020 were followed up. The recurrence rate and risk factors for recurrence were analyzed....
A total of 68 PH patients (mean age 44.0 ± 13.0 years, 36.8% male) were enrolled. The majority patients diagnosed PH had congenital heart disease-associated PH (63.2%), and 30.9% had idiopathic pulmon...
The immediate success of ablation and the RAVi are associated with recurrent AFL. Patients with a RAVi ≥ 166.64 ml/m...
To investigate the impact of atrial flutter (A...
ECG signals of two private and three public (two MIT-BIH and Chapman ecgdb) databases were preprocessed and divided into 10s segments which were then subject to feature extraction. The created dataset...
The XGBoost model yielded the best performance across all datasets compared to the remaining benchmark models, however variability in model performance was seen across datasets, with accuracy ranging ...
CAD systems have great potential in the assistance of physicians in reliable, precise and efficient detection of arrhythmias. However, although compelling research has been done in the field, yielding...
Atrial anti-tachycardia pacing (aATP) has been shown to be effective for the termination of atrial tachyarrhythmias, but its success rate is still not high enough....
The main objective of this study was to investigate the mechanisms of atrial flutter (AFL) termination by aATP and the transition from AFL to atrial fibrillation (AF) during aATP....
We developed a multi-scale model of the human atrium based on magnetic resonance images and examined the atrial electrophysiology of AFL during aATP with a ramp protocol....
In successful cases of aATP, paced excitation entered the excitable gap and collided with the leading edge of the reentrant wave front. Furthermore, the excitation propagating in the opposite directio...
The complex anatomy of atria plays an essential role in the maintenance of stable AFL and its termination by aATP, which were revealed by the realistic three-dimensional simulation model....
