Comprehensive risk reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation: emerging diagnostic and therapeutic options—a report from the 3rd Atrial Fibrillation Competence …

P Kirchhof, GYH Lip, IC Van Gelder, J Bax, E Hylek… - Europace, 2012 - academic.oup.com
While management of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients is improved by guideline-conform
application of anticoagulant therapy, rate control, rhythm control, and therapy of …

The ECG as a tool to determine atrial fibrillation complexity

TAR Lankveld, S Zeemering, HJGM Crijns, U Schotten - Heart, 2014 - heart.bmj.com
The use of the ECG for atrial fibrillation (AF) in clinical daily practice is still limited to its
diagnosis. Recent research shows however that ECG-derived parameters can also be used …

Atrial fibrillation complexity parameters derived from surface ECGs predict procedural outcome and long-term follow-up of stepwise catheter ablation for atrial …

T Lankveld, S Zeemering, D Scherr… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The success rate of catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) is still
far from satisfactory. Identification of patients who will benefit from ablation is highly …

Spatial variability of the 12-lead surface ECG as a tool for noninvasive prediction of catheter ablation outcome in persistent atrial fibrillation

M Meo, V Zarzoso, O Meste, DG Latcu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia encountered in
clinical practice. Radiofrequency catheter ablation (CA) is increasingly employed to treat this …

Novel risk score for predicting recurrence of atrial fibrillation after the Cryo-Maze procedure

T Kakuta, S Fukushima, K Minami… - European Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A predictive model for atrial fibrillation recurrence and the rate of freedom from atrial
fibrillation recurrence by each score OBJECTIVES This study aimed to develop a novel risk …

Noninvasive time and frequency predictors of long‐standing atrial fibrillation early recurrence after electrical cardioversion

R Alcaraz, F Hornero, JJ Rieta - Pacing and clinical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF)
recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A …

The Amplitude of Fibrillatory Waves on Leads aVF and V1 Predicting the Recurrence of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Patients Who Underwent Catheter Ablation

Z Cheng, H Deng, K Cheng, T Chen… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate whether the amplitude of fibrillatory wave (F wave) on
electrocardiography could predict the recurrence in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) patients …

Preoperative prediction of catheter ablation outcome in persistent atrial fibrillation patients through spectral organization analysis of the surface fibrillatory waves

P Escribano, J Rodenas, M Garcia, MA Arias… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Catheter ablation (CA) is a commonly used treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF).
Since its medium/long-term success rate remains limited, preoperative prediction of its …

Electrocardiographic spectral features for long-term outcome prognosis of atrial fibrillation catheter ablation

R Alcaraz, F Hornero, JJ Rieta - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2016 - Springer
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in routine clinical practice. Despite
many years of research, its mechanisms still are not well understood, thus reducing the …

xECGArch: a trustworthy deep learning architecture for interpretable ECG analysis considering short-term and long-term features

M Goettling, A Hammer, H Malberg, M Schmidt - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated high classification performance in the
detection of cardiovascular diseases from electrocardiograms (ECGs). However, their …