Antoine Milhem, Frédéric Anselme, Antoine Da Costa, Sélim Abbey, Jacques Mansourati, Hugues Bader, Pierre-François Winum, Nicolas Badenco, Philippe Maury, Antoine Dompnier, Dipen Shah, Nicolas Joner, Jérôme Taieb, Julien Bertrand, Frédéric Tréguer, Mathieu Amelot, Pierre Ingrand, Caroline Allix-Béguec
BACKGROUND: In a preliminary study in patients hospitalized for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), the atrial thrombus exclusion (ATE) score (stroke, hypertension, heart failure, and D-dimers >270 ng/mL) was developed to rule out the diagnosis of intra-atrial thrombus, with a negative predictive value (NPV) of 100%, and to avoid performing transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). OBJECTIVES: The present study was designed to prospectively confirm the NPV of the ATE score in an independent population...
September 15, 2023: JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology