Abstract:
AIMS:Patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) often experience recurrent arrhythmias within the first few months post-ablation. We aimed to investigate whether short-term use of amiodarone to prevent early arrhythmias following radiofrequency ablation for AF could reduce later recurrence. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a two-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, we randomized a total of 212 patients undergoing AF ablation. Patients were stratified according to type of AF (paroxysmal/persistent) and history of previous AF ablation and randomly assigned to 8 weeks of oral amiodarone therapy or matched placebo following catheter ablation. Patients were followed for 6 months. Analyses were performed according to the intention-to-treat principle. Of 212 enrolled patients [median age 61 (inter-quartile range 54-66), 83% male, 50% paroxysmal, 29% with history of previous ablation], 206 patients were available for analysis of the primary end-point which was any documented atrial tachyarrhythmia lasting >30 s following a blanking period of 3 months. This was observed in 42/107 (39%) in the amiodarone group vs. 48/99 (48%) in the placebo group (P = 0.18). Among the secondary end-points, the amiodarone group showed significantly lower rate of atrial tachyarrhythmia-related hospitalizations [rate ratio = 0.43; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.23-0.77, P = 0.006] and cardioversions (rate ratio = 0.36; 95% CI = 0.20-0.62, P = 0.0004) within the blanking period. CONCLUSION:Short-term oral amiodarone treatment following ablation for paroxysmal or persistent AF did not significantly reduce recurrence of atrial tachyarrhythmias at the 6-month follow-up, but it more than halved atrial arrhythmia related hospitalization and cardioversion rates during the blanking period.
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Eur Heart Jjournal_title
European heart journalauthors
Darkner S,Chen X,Hansen J,Pehrson S,Johannessen A,Nielsen JB,Svendsen JHdoi
10.1093/eurheartj/ehu354subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-12-14 00:00:00pages
3356-64issue
47eissn
0195-668Xissn
1522-9645pii
ehu354journal_volume
35pub_type
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