AF Ablation Guided by Spatiotemporal Electrogram Dispersion Without Pulmonary Vein Isolation : A Wholly Patient-Tailored Approach

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BACKGROUND: The use of intracardiac electrograms to guide atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation has yielded conflicting results.

OBJECTIVES: The authors evaluated the usefulness of spatiotemporal dispersion, a visually recognizable electric footprint of AF drivers, for the ablation of all forms of AF.

METHODS: The authors prospectively enrolled 105 patients admitted for AF ablation. AF was sequentially mapped in both atria with a 20-pole PentaRay catheter. The authors tagged and ablated only regions displaying electrogram dispersion during AF. Results were compared to a validation set in which a conventional ablation approach was used (pulmonary vein isolation/stepwise approach). To establish the mechanism underlying spatiotemporal dispersion of AF electrograms, the authors conducted realistic numerical simulations of AF drivers in a 2-dimensional model and optical mapping of ovine atrial scar-related AF.

RESULTS: Ablation at dispersion areas terminated AF in 95% of the 105 patients. After ablation of 17 ± 10% of the left atrial surface and 18 months of follow-up, the atrial arrhythmia recurrence rate was 15% after 1.4 ± 0.5 procedures per patient versus 41% in the validation set after 1.5 ± 0.5 procedures per patient (arrhythmia free-survival: 85% vs. 59%; log-rank p < 0.001). Compared with the validation set, radiofrequency times (49 ± 21 min vs. 85 ± 34.5 min; p = 0.001) and procedure times (168 ± 42 min vs. 230 ± 67 min; p < 0.0001) were shorter. In simulations and optical mapping experiments, virtual PentaRay recordings demonstrated that electrogram dispersion is mostly recorded in the vicinity of a driver.

CONCLUSIONS: The clustering of intracardiac electrograms exhibiting spatiotemporal dispersion is indicative of AF drivers. Their ablation allows for a nonextensive and patient-tailored approach to AF ablation. (Substrate Ablation Guided by High Density Mapping in Atrial Fibrillation [SUBSTRATE HD]; NCT02093949).

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Jan 24;69(3):322-324. - PMID 28104074

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 69(2017), 3 vom: 24. Jan., Seite 303-321

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Seitz, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Bars, Clément [VerfasserIn]
Théodore, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Beurtheret, Sylvain [VerfasserIn]
Lellouche, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Bremondy, Michel [VerfasserIn]
Ferracci, Ange [VerfasserIn]
Faure, Jacques [VerfasserIn]
Penaranda, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Yamazaki, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Avula, Uma Mahesh R [VerfasserIn]
Curel, Laurence [VerfasserIn]
Siame, Sabrina [VerfasserIn]
Berenfeld, Omer [VerfasserIn]
Pisapia, André [VerfasserIn]
Kalifa, Jérôme [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cycle length
Dispersion driver
Fractionated
Journal Article
Mapping
Sinus rhythm

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Date Completed 18.07.2017

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02093949

CommentIn: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Jan 24;69(3):322-324. - PMID 28104074

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jacc.2016.10.065

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM268159696