Catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Authors: Shpektor A.V.

Company: Cardiology Chair of A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Delegatskaya ulitsa, 20, stroenie 1, Moscow, 127473, Russian Federation

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Type:  Editorial article


DOI: https://doi.org/10.24022/1997-3187-2019-13-1-5-7

For citation: Shpektor A.V. Catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Creative Cardiology. 2019; 13 (1): 5–7 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.24022/1997-3187-2019-13-1-5-7

Received / Accepted:  26.02.2019/03.03.2019

Keywords: atrial fibrillation heart failure catheter ablation drug therapy randomized trials

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Abstract

The effectiveness of treatment of patients with heart failure accompanied by atrial fibrillation is much lower than in sinus rhythm, which is often impossible to restore and retain medicamentally in this category of patients. Lethality is not reduced, there is a high frequency of drug complications. In the treatment of such patients, the catheter ablation method is of interest, using which, according to a number of randomized studies, the sinus rhythm is more effectively restored and maintained, the total and cardiovascular mortality is significantly reduced (up to 50%), the quality of life is improved.

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About Authors

Aleksandr V. Shpektor, Dr Med. Sc., Professor, Head of Department, orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-6808

Chief Editor

Leo A. Bockeria, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery