Panayotis K Vlachakis, Dimitris Tsiachris, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Panagiotis Tsioufis, Athanasios Kordalis, Michail Botis, Ioannis Leontsinis, Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou, Chrysostomi Papachrysostomou, Vasiliki Dimitroula, Eleni Maneta, Vasileios Chalkitis, Theodoros Kotsakis, Pavlos Skantzikas, Nikolaos Kafkas, Georgios Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Roussos, Athanasios Trikas, Georgios Koudounis, Theofilos M Kolettis, Nikolaos Smyrnioudis, Dimitrios Christakos, Christos Chasikidis, Konstantinos A Gatzoulis, Konstantinos Tsioufis
BACKGROUND: Current guidelines recommend a rhythm control strategy in patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) while catheter ablation has been shown to be a safer and more efficacious approach than antiarrhythmic medications. METHODS: HECMOS was a nationwide snapshot survey of cardiorenal morbidity in hospitalized cardiology patients. In this sub-study, we included 276 cases who had a history of AF, particularly on the rhythm strategy, and catheter ablation procedures had been performed before the index admission...
November 16, 2023: Journal of Cardiology