Atrial pacing for suppression of early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation after successful internal cardioversion.

Abstract:

AIMS:To evaluate the efficacy of atrial pacing in the suppression of early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation after successful internal cardioversion. METHODS AND RESULTS:The efficacy of atrial pacing in suppressing early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation was studied in 12 of 45 (29%) patients with early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation after successful cardioversion. These patients were randomized to undergo either repeated defibrillation alone or repeated defibrillation followed by high right atrial pacing at 500 ms in a crossover fashion. In patients with persistent early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation despite atrial pacing at 500 ms and repeated defibrillation, atrial pacing at 300 ms was tested. Lastly, if early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation persisted, administration of intravenous sotalol (1.5 mg. kg(-1)) was tested. Atrial pacing at 500 ms after defibrillation prevented early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation in five of 12 (42%) patients, and was significantly more effective than repeated defibrillation (0/9 patients, 0%, P<0.05). During atrial pacing at 500 ms, the density of atrial premature depolarizations (APDs) was significantly decreased (2.4+/-2.4 APDs. min(-1)vs 16.4+/-9.8 APDs. min(-1), P<0. 05) and the coupling interval of atrial premature depolarization was significantly increased (420+/-32 ms vs 398+/-19 ms, P<0.05) as compared to no pacing. In the remaining seven (58%) patients, atrial pacing at 500 ms failed to prevent early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation, but significantly decreased the density of atrial premature depolarization (3.4+/-2.4 APDs. min(-1)vs 14.2+/-4.8 APDs. min(-1), P<0.05) and delayed the onset of early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation (33+/-17s vs 11+/-11 s, P<0.05). Atrial pacing at 300 ms decreased the coupling interval of atrial premature depolarization as compared to no pacing and during atrial pacing at 500 ms (P<0.05), but without early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation suppression. Administration of intravenous sotalol was effective in preventing early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation in five of seven (71%) patients where pacing failed to suppress early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation. CONCLUSION:The results of this study suggest that atrial pacing can be useful when combined with transvenous defibrillation in patients with early reinitiation of atrial fibrillation.

journal_name

Eur Heart J

journal_title

European heart journal

authors

Tse HF,Lau CP,Ayers GM

doi

10.1053/euhj.1999.1991

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1167-76

issue

14

eissn

0195-668X

issn

1522-9645

pii

S0195668X99919917

journal_volume

21

pub_type

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