Clinical characteristics of heart failure patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation today in Europe. Data from the atrial fibrillation registries of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Heart Rhythm Association

Pier Luigi Temporelli; Roland R Tilz; Elena Arbelo; Nikolaos Dagres; Cécile Laroche; Harry J Crijns; Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist; Paulus Kirchhof; Gregory Y H Lip; Giuseppe Boriani; Evengy Pokushalov; Eleni Nakou; Josep Brugada; Luigi Tavazzi

doi:10.1002/ejhf.1458

Clinical characteristics of heart failure patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation today in Europe. Data from the atrial fibrillation registries of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Heart Rhythm Association

Eur J Heart Fail. 2019 May;21(5):690-693. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1458. Epub 2019 Mar 21.

Authors

Pier Luigi Temporelli¹, Roland R Tilz², Elena Arbelo^{3

4

5}, Nikolaos Dagres⁶, Cécile Laroche⁷, Harry J Crijns⁸, Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist⁹, Paulus Kirchhof^{10

11}, Gregory Y H Lip^{12

13}, Giuseppe Boriani¹⁴, Evengy Pokushalov¹⁵, Eleni Nakou¹⁶, Josep Brugada³, Luigi Tavazzi¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Veruno (NO), Italy.
² Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Heart Center Luebeck, Medical Clinic II, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck, Germany.
³ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Institut d'Investigació August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
⁷ EURObservational Research Programme (EORP), European Society of Cardiology, Sophia Antipolis, France.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Medical Science and Cardiology, Uppsala University l, Uppsala, Sweden.
¹⁰ Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹¹ Departments of Cardiology, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
¹² Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
¹³ Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
¹⁴ Cardiology Division, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena, Modena, Italy.
¹⁵ E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, Russia.
¹⁶ Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁷ Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Cotignola (RA), Italy.

PMID: 30896056
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.1458

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Atrial Fibrillation / complications
Atrial Fibrillation / epidemiology
Atrial Fibrillation / surgery*
Catheter Ablation*
Comorbidity
Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology
Europe / epidemiology
Female
Heart Failure / complications
Heart Failure / epidemiology
Heart Failure / physiopathology*
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia / epidemiology
Hypertension / epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Selection*
Referral and Consultation*
Registries*
Smoking / epidemiology
Stroke Volume*