Structural Cardiac Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate preablation computed tomography angiography (CTA) for atrial and epicardial features to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after ablation.

Background: Structural atrial remodeling is a process associated with occurrence or persistence of AF. Different anatomical imaging features have been proposed to influence atrial remodeling both negatively and positively as substrate for AF.

Upstream Statin Therapy and Long-Term Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation after Cardioversion: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

The relationship of statin therapy with recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardioversion (CV) has been evaluated by several investigations, which provided conflicting results and particularly long-term data is scarce. We sought to examine whether upstream statin therapy is associated with long-term recurrence of AF after CV. This was a single-center registry study including consecutive AF patients ( = 454) undergoing CV.