Publications by authors named "Adrian Gonzalez-Maestro"
Aims: This study aims to investigate the clinical and biochemical characteristics of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) referred for ablation who develop arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy (AiCM) as well as their long-term outcomes after catheter ablation (CA).
Methods And Results: A prospective multicentre study was conducted on consecutive AF patients who underwent CA. AiCM was defined as the development of heart failure in the presence of AF and an improvement of left ventricular fraction by at least 10% at 6 months after ablation.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates whether biomarkers associated with fibrosis and adiposity can effectively predict low-voltage areas (LVA) in the heart and the likelihood of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI).
- A total of 299 patients were analyzed, revealing that age, left atrium size, and a new combined score based on AF type and FABP4 levels are significant predictors for both LVA and AF recurrence.
- The findings suggest that incorporating adiposity markers like FABP4 into traditional classifications of atrial cardiomyopathy enhances prediction accuracy for both LVA presence and AF recurrence, while galectin-3 (Gal-3) did not show additional predictive benefits.
Introduction And Objectives: Recently, neurologists have begun to perform focused cardiac ultrasound for the detection of a cardiac source of embolism in stroke patients, requiring them to undergo a prior accredited training process. We designed a prospective study to analyze the incidence of heart disease detected by a focused cardiac ultrasound program within a stroke care network with cardiac imaging units and to identify the outcomes of detected structural heart disease at 1 year of follow-up.
Methods: We included patients admitted to a university hospital for ischemic stroke or a transient ischemic attack between 2017 and 2021 who were evaluated by focused cardiac ultrasound.