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INTRODUCTION:High recurrence rate is still a major problem associated with ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). Most of the recurrences occur within 6 months after ablation. The characteristics of very late recurrent AF (>12 months after ablation) have not been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS:Two hundred seven patients with drug-refractory AF underwent successful focal ablation or isolation of AF foci. After the first ablation procedure, Holter monitoring and event recorders were used to evaluate symptomatic recurrent AF. A second ablation procedure was recommended if the antiarrhythmic drugs could not control recurrent AF. During long-term follow-up (mean 30 +/- 11 months, up to 51 months), 70 patients had recurrent AF, including 13 patients (6%) with very late (>12 months) recurrent AF (group 1) and 57 patients (28%) with late (within 12 months after ablation) recurrent AF (group 2). Group 1 patients had a significantly lower incidence of multiple (> or = 2) AF foci (23% vs 63%, P = 0.02) than group 2 patients. In addition, the incidence of antiarrhythmic drugs use (38% vs 84%, P = 0.001) to maintain sinus rhythm after the first episode of recurrent AF was significantly lower in group 1 than group 2 patients, and the incidence of a second intervention procedure (8% vs 35%, P = 0.051) tended to be lower in group 1 than group 2 patients. CONCLUSION:The incidence of very late recurrent AF after ablation of paroxysmal AF is very low, and the clinical outcome of patients with very late recurrent AF is benign.
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J Cardiovasc Electrophysioljournal_title
Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiologyauthors
Hsieh MH,Tai CT,Tsai CF,Lin WS,Lin YK,Tsao HM,Huang JL,Ueng KC,Yu WC,Chan P,Ding YA,Chang MS,Chen SAdoi
10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03047.xkeywords:
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2003-06-01 00:00:00pages
598-601issue
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1540-8167journal_volume
14pub_type
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