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2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.
J Arrhythm
December 2024
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York NY USA.
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007, the first joint expert consensus document was issued, guiding healthcare professionals involved in catheter or surgical AF ablation. Mounting research evidence and technological advances have resulted in a rapidly changing landscape in the field of catheter and surgical AF ablation, thus stressing the need for regularly updated versions of this partnership which were issued in 2012 and 2017.
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- Glycated hemoglobin (HbA) variability is linked to increased risks of all-cause death and heart failure (HF) rehospitalization in patients with HF, regardless of whether they have diabetes or not.
- In a study involving 65,950 HF patients over an average of 6.7 years, higher HbA variability correlated with worse outcomes, especially for those without diabetes.
- Specifically, patients with HF without diabetes faced a significantly greater risk of rehospitalization and death compared to those with diabetes, highlighting the importance of managing HbA levels in all HF patients.
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- Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is a key procedure for treating atrial fibrillation (AF), and the study compares its effectiveness under general anesthesia (GA) versus conscious sedation (CS).
- 36 patients under GA and 109 under CS were analyzed, with a final comparison of 29 matched pairs based on similar characteristics.
- Results showed that GA patients had shorter PVI times, fewer gaps, and higher ratios for successful ablation measures compared to those under CS, suggesting that GA enhances both the quality and efficiency of the procedure.
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- The neonatal heart has a strong ability to regenerate shortly after birth, and SGK3 (a protein kinase) is significantly active in the heart following myocardial infarction.
- This research investigates how SGK3 affects cardiomyocyte (heart cell) proliferation and cardiac repair during situations like heart surgery or oxygen deprivation.
- Results show that SGK3 promotes heart cell growth and recovery by regulating specific genes and proteins involved in the cell cycle and reducing certain negative regulators, highlighting its importance in heart regeneration after injury.
This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence-based practical patient-centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents with (aborted) sudden cardiac arrest and their families. The document includes a framework for the investigation of the family allowing steps to be taken, should an inherited condition be found, to minimize further events in affected relatives. Integral to the process is counseling of the patients and families, not only because of the emotionally charged subject, but because finding (or not finding) the cause of the arrest may influence management of family members.
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