Influence of time to ablation on outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation with pre-existing heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are cardiac disorders that often coexist.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate how time to ablation could influence the outcomes of AF patients with pre-existing HF.

Methods

Using the 2013 to 2022 Optum Clinformatics database, AF patients with pre-existing HF were classified into 2 groups: early ablation (ablation within 6 months of AF diagnosis) and late ablation (ablation in the 6- to 24-month period after AF diagnosis). Outcomes including AF-related hospitalization, electrical cardioversion, repeat ablation, antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) use, and AF recurrence (a composite outcome of the aforementioned events) were assessed in the postblanking 24-month period. Inverse probability of treatment weighted Pois

SUBMITTER: Lador A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11524955 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature