Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, Anastasios Tsarouchas, Dimitrios Mouselimis, Dimitrios Filos, Antonios P Antoniadis, Dimitrios N Lysitsas, Nikolaos Mezilis, Antigoni Sakellaropoulou, Georgios Giannopoulos, Constantinos Bakogiannis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Nikolaos Fragakis, Konstantinos P Letsas, Dimitrios Asvestas, Michael Efremidis, Charalampos Lazaridis, Ioanna Chouvarda, Vassilios P Vassilikos
The identification of patients prone to atrial fibrillation (AF) relapse after catheter ablation is essential for better patient selection and risk stratification. The current prospective cohort study aims to validate a novel P-wave index based on beat-to-beat (B2B) P-wave morphological and wavelet analysis designed to detect patients with low burden AF as a predictor of AF recurrence within a year after successful catheter ablation. From a total of 138 consecutive patients scheduled for AF ablation, 12-lead ECG and 10 min vectorcardiogram (VCG) recordings were obtained...
March 28, 2022: Diagnostics