Why the study?
Multiple risk stratification scores have been developed over the last decade to predict adverse events and treatment success in AF patients undergoing catheter ablation, warranting an overview.
This review summarizes clinical risk scores used to predict rhythm outcomes, electro-anatomical substrate, and mortality in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.
May inform AF ablation risk discussions; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults. Catheter ablation (CA) is one of the most important management strategies to reduce AF burden and AF-associated complications. In order to stratify the risk of adverse events and to predict treatment success in AF patients undergoing CA, several risk stratification scores had been developed during the last decade. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the most important clinical risk scores predicting rhythm outcomes, electro-anatomical substrate and mortality in AF.
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