METHOD FOR PRE-OPERATIVE PREDICTION OF RECURRENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION FOLLOWING RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION PROCEDURE

摘要

FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: method involves specifying the patient's age in years, measuring a left atrium diameter in millimetres, assessing the anti-arrhythmic therapy provided and determining a degree of aortic and mitral incompetence. The produced values are used to calculate a risk (R) of recurrent atrial fibrillation following a radiofrequency ablation procedure by original formula. If the derived value R is more than 0.5, the development of recurrent atrial fibrillation is predicted to follow the radiofrequency ablation procedure; the value R of 0.5 or less shows no risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation following the radiofrequency ablation procedure.EFFECT: higher prediction accuracy.2 ex