Time Variability of FibrillatoryWaves Energy Predicts Long-Term Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Concomitant Surgical Ablation

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Autores principales: Rodenas, Juan, Escribano, Pilar, Martinez-Iniesta, Miguel, Garcia, Manuel, Hornero, Fernando, Rieta, Jose J, Alcaraz, Raul
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author Rodenas, Juan
Escribano, Pilar
Martinez-Iniesta, Miguel
Garcia, Manuel
Hornero, Fernando
Rieta, Jose J
Alcaraz, Raul
author_facet Rodenas, Juan
Escribano, Pilar
Martinez-Iniesta, Miguel
Garcia, Manuel
Hornero, Fernando
Rieta, Jose J
Alcaraz, Raul
contents Surgical ablation (SA) is the most effective procedure to terminate atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients requiring concomitant open heart surgery. However, considering the great stress provoked in the patients heart, along with the benefits of anticipating antiarrhythmic therapeutical decisions, preoperative prediction of long term failure of the procedure is an interesting clinical challenge. Hence, the present work introduces a novel algorithm to anticipate SA outcome after one year of follow up by just analyzing the surface ECG. The method firstly extracts fibrillatory waves reflected on standard lead V1 using an adaptive QRST cancellation approach. The resulting signal is then segmented into 1 s length intervals and wavelet energy is computed for all of them. Finally, the coefficient of variation of the time series obtained for the 7th scale is computed. Analyzing 20 second length preoperative ECG excerpts from 53 persistent AF patients undergoing concomitant openheart surgery, only the proposed method reported statistically significant differences between the patients who relapsed to AF and those who maintained sinus rhythm during the follow up. The algorithm also provided values of sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy between 10 and 20% better than the well established dominant atrial frequency and fibrillatory waves amplitude, thus suggesting to be a promising predictor of AF recurrence after SA.
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spellingShingle Time Variability of FibrillatoryWaves Energy Predicts Long-Term Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Concomitant Surgical Ablation
Rodenas, Juan
Escribano, Pilar
Martinez-Iniesta, Miguel
Garcia, Manuel
Hornero, Fernando
Rieta, Jose J
Alcaraz, Raul
Signal Processing
Surgical ablation (SA) is the most effective procedure to terminate atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients requiring concomitant open heart surgery. However, considering the great stress provoked in the patients heart, along with the benefits of anticipating antiarrhythmic therapeutical decisions, preoperative prediction of long term failure of the procedure is an interesting clinical challenge. Hence, the present work introduces a novel algorithm to anticipate SA outcome after one year of follow up by just analyzing the surface ECG. The method firstly extracts fibrillatory waves reflected on standard lead V1 using an adaptive QRST cancellation approach. The resulting signal is then segmented into 1 s length intervals and wavelet energy is computed for all of them. Finally, the coefficient of variation of the time series obtained for the 7th scale is computed. Analyzing 20 second length preoperative ECG excerpts from 53 persistent AF patients undergoing concomitant openheart surgery, only the proposed method reported statistically significant differences between the patients who relapsed to AF and those who maintained sinus rhythm during the follow up. The algorithm also provided values of sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy between 10 and 20% better than the well established dominant atrial frequency and fibrillatory waves amplitude, thus suggesting to be a promising predictor of AF recurrence after SA.
title Time Variability of FibrillatoryWaves Energy Predicts Long-Term Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Concomitant Surgical Ablation
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10704