Impact of Sinus Rhythm Maintenance on Major Adverse Cardiac and Cerebrovascular Events after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from AF Frontier Ablation Registry
Keisuke Usuda,1 MD; Takeshi Kato,1MD; Toyonobu Tsuda,1 MD; Hayato Tada,1 MD; Satoru Niwa,1 MD; Soichiro Usui,1 MD; Kenji Sakata,1MD; Kenshi Hayashi,1 MD; Hiroshi Furusho,1 MD; Masaaki Kawashiri,1MD; Masayuki Takamura,1 MD; Takayuki Otsuka,2 MD; Akio Hirata,3 MD; Masato Murakami,4 MD; Mitsuru Takami,5 MD; Masaomi Kimura,6 MD; Hidehira Fukaya,7 MD; Shiro Nakahara,8 MD; Wataru Shimizu,9 MD; Tomoo Harada,10 MD; Ken Okumura,11MD; Teiichi Yamane,12 MD; Yukihiko Momiyama,13 MD; Kyoko Soejima,14 MD; Nobuhisa Hagiwara,15 MD; Masahide Harada,16 MD; Kazumasa Sonoda,17 MD; Masaru Inoue,18 MD; Koji Kumagai,19MD; Hidemori Hayashi,20 MD; Kazuhiro Satomi,21 MD; Yuji Watari,22 MD; Naoya Matsumoto,23 MD; Koichi Nagashima,24 MD; Yasuo Okumura,24 MD on behalf of the AF Ablation Frontier Registry
From 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan;2Department of Cardiology, The Cardiovascular Institute, Tokyo; 3Cardiovascular Division, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka; 4Divison of Cardiology, Shonan-Kamakura General Hospital, Kanagawa; 5Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Osaka; 6Divison of Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine and Nephrology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori; 7Kitasato University Hospital, Kanagawa; 8Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama; 9Nippon Medical Hospital, Tokyo;10St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital, Kanagawa; 11Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto;12Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine Hospital, Tokyo; 13National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo; 14Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo;15Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital, Tokyo;16Fujita University Health Hospital, Aichi;17Tokyo Rinkai Hospital, Tokyo;18Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Ishikawa;19Gunma Cardiovascular Center, Gunma;20Juntendo University, Tokyo;21Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo;22Teikyo University, Tokyo;23Department of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital Tokyo; and 24Division of Cardiology, Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, Tokyo
Short title: Impact of maintaining sinus rhythm by AF ablation
Acknowledgments: None
Data Availability: The deidentified participant data will not be shared.
Research Ethics: The protocol of this study was approved by Institutional Review Board of Nihon University Itabashi Hospital (RK-161213-6) along with the Institutional Review Boards of all participating institutions.
Funding sources: This study was supported by a research grant from Bristol-Meyers Squibb.