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.