What is the incidence of inducible atrial fibrillation and its relationship with the number of inductions in patients without structural heart disease or clinical atrial fibrillation?
Inducible atrial fibrillation is common even in patients without clinical AF or structural heart disease, and its persistence increases with repeated induction attempts, suggesting inducibility alone may not be a specific marker of disease.
Inducible and sustained AF is common in patients in the absence of structural heart disease or clinical AF, and its incidence varies according to gender, method of induction, and number of inductions. There is a direct relationship between AF persistence and number of inductions, which has not reached a plateau after 10 inductions.
Kumar et al. (2012) studied this question.