Key result
Right ventricular dysfunction and atrial fibrillation have a complex bidirectional relationship, and their coexistence worsens overall patient prognosis irrespective of the underlying cardiac pathology.
Why the study?
The bidirectional relationship and complex interplay between right ventricular dysfunction and atrial fibrillation warrant in-depth analysis to better characterize the cardiac substrate and prognostic impact.
Right ventricular dysfunction and atrial fibrillation share a bidirectional relationship that worsens patient prognosis, highlighting the need for comprehensive right heart assessment in these patients.
RV assessment merits consideration in AF; leaves open whether targeted strategies improve outcomes.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common sustained arrhythmias in clinical practice, associated with multiple comorbidities and complication. The potential predictors of AF onset and perpetuation or specific drivers of complications need future investigation. Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction plays an important role in the development of new-onset AF warranting in-depth analysis in relation to AF. RV may play a significant role in a better characterization of the cardiac substrate of AF patients. The relation between RV dysfunction and AF is bidirectional as AF may be one of the causes of RV dysfunction and their coexistence worsens the overall patient prognosis. Our aim is to present in a narrative review the most relevant data regarding the complex relationship between AF and RV dysfunction.
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Vijan et al. (2023) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation and right ventricular dysfunction. Right ventricular dysfunction and atrial fibrillation have a complex bidirectional relationship, and their coexistence worsens overall patient prognosis irrespective of the underlying cardiac pathology.
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