Patient age independently predicts the mechanism, location, multiplicity, and recurrence of focal atrial tachycardia after ablation.
May guide age-stratified recurrence counseling before focal AT ablation; leaves open whether age-tailored strategies improve outcomes.
Patient age is closely related to the clinical and electrophysiologic characteristics of atrial tachycardia based on our reanalysis, which found that patient age is an independent predictor of nonautomatic mechanism, right atrial location, existence of multiple atrial tachycardias, and recurrence of atrial tachycardia after initial successful ablation.
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