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Journal of Arrhythmia 卷:36
Left atrial scar identification and quantification in sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation
James Mannion1  Joseph Galvin1  Usama Boles1 
[1] Cardiology Department, Heart and Vascular Centre Mater Private Hospital Dublin Ireland;
关键词: atrial cardiac remodeling;    atrial fibrillation;    catheter ablation;    electrophysiology;    pulmonary veins;   
DOI  :  10.1002/joa3.12421
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Abstract Identification and quantification of low voltage areas (LVA) in atrial fibrillation (AF), identified by their bipolar voltages (BiV) via electro‐anatomical voltage mapping is an area of interest to prognosis of AF free burden. LVAs have been linked to diseased left atrial (LA) tissue which results in pro‐fibrillatory potentials. These LVAs are dominantly found within the pulmonary veins, however, as the disease progresses other areas of the LA show low voltage. The scar burden of the LA is linked to recurrence of the arrhythmia and can be a target of further modification. This burden is classically assessed once sinus rhythm (SR) is attained, but this is susceptible to operator variability with overestimated dense LA scar (<0.2 mV) and underestimated diseased LA tissue (<0.5 mV). The novel automated voltage histogram analysis (VHA) tool may increase accuracy, however, is yet to be fully validated. A recent study indicates that LVAs can be assessed just as reliably in AF as SR, but BiV is lower with linear correlation to SR values (0.24‐0.5 mV respectively). In this paper, we review current data as well as review current methods of identifying, quantifying, and grading LA scar. We also compared AF vs SR voltages of a patient undergoing catheter ablation in our site using our VHA tool to compare the results. In keeping with the cited papers, we found lower voltages in our patient measured in AF. This area warrants further study to assess correlation in more patients, with view to developing prognostic and therapeutic grading systems.

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