Ablation of atrial fibrillation during coronary artery bypass grafting: Late outcomes in a Medicare population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study compares outcomes of patients with preoperative atrial fibrillation undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with or without concomitant atrial fibrillation ablation in a nationally representative Medicare cohort.

Objectives

This study examined early and late outcomes in CABG patients with a preoperative history of atrial fibrillation to determine the correlation between surgical atrial fibrillation ablation to mortality and stroke or systemic embolization.

Methods

In the Medicare-linked Society of Thoracic Surgeons database, 361,138 patients underwent isolated CABG from 2006 to 2013; 34,600 (9.6%) had preoperative atrial fibrillation; 10,541 (30.5%) were treated with surgical ablation (ablation group), and 23,059 were not (no ablation g

SUBMITTER: Malaisrie SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10108849 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature