Standardized pulmonary vein isolation workflow to enclose veins with contiguous lesions : the multicentre VISTAX trial

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AIMS: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of pulmonary vein isolation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) using a standardized workflow aiming to enclose the veins with contiguous and optimized radiofrequency lesions.

METHODS AND RESULTS: This multicentre, prospective, non-randomized study was conducted at 17 European sites. Pulmonary vein isolation was guided by VISITAG SURPOINT (VS target ≥550 on the anterior wall; ≥400 on the posterior wall) and intertag distance (≤6 mm). Atrial arrhythmia recurrence was stringently monitored with weekly and symptom-driven transtelephonic monitoring on top of standard-of-care monitoring (24-h Holter and 12-lead electrocardiogram at 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up). Three hundred and forty participants with drug refractory PAF were enrolled. Acute effectiveness (first-pass isolation proof to a 30-min wait period and adenosine challenge) was 82.4% [95% confidence interval (CI) 77.4-86.7%]. At 12-month follow-up, the rate of freedom from any documented atrial arrhythmia was 78.3% (95% CI 73.8-82.8%), while freedom from atrial arrhythmia by standard-of-care monitoring was 89.4% (95% CI 78.8-87.0%). Freedom fromrepeat ablations by the Kaplan-Meier analysis was 90.4% during 12 months of follow-up. Of the 34 patients with repeat ablations, 14 (41.2%) demonstrated full isolation of all pulmonary vein circles. Primary adverse event (PAE) rate was 3.6% (95% CI 1.9-6.3%).

CONCLUSIONS: The VISTAX trial demonstrated that a standardized PAF ablation workflow aiming for contiguous lesions leads to low rates of PAEs, high acute first-pass isolation rates, and 12-month freedom from arrhythmias approaching 80%. Further research is needed to improve the reproducibility of the outcomes across a wider range of centres.Clinical trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT03062046, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03062046.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

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Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology - 22(2020), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1645-1652

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Duytschaever, Mattias [VerfasserIn]
Vijgen, Johan [VerfasserIn]
De Potter, Tom [VerfasserIn]
Scherr, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Van Herendael, Hugo [VerfasserIn]
Knecht, Sebastien [VerfasserIn]
Kobza, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Berte, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Sandgaard, Niels [VerfasserIn]
Albenque, Jean-Paul [VerfasserIn]
Szeplaki, Gabor [VerfasserIn]
Stevenhagen, Yorick Jeroen [VerfasserIn]
Taghji, Philippe [VerfasserIn]
Wright, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Macours, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Dhiraj [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Atrial arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation
Clinical Trial
Contact force catheter
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Pulmonary vein isolation
Radiofrequency ablation
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
VISITAG SURPOINT

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Date Completed 25.06.2021

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03062046

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/europace/euaa157

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314529063