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MULTICENTER STUDY
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
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Clinical value of left atrial appendage flow velocity for predicting of cardioversion success in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic parameters for predicting cardioversion outcome in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation are not accurately defined.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of left atrial appendage flow velocity detected by transoesophageal echocardiography for prediction of cardioversion outcome in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation enrolled in a prospective. multicentre, international study.

METHODS: Four hundred and eight patients (257 males, mean age: 66 +/- 10 years) with non-valvular atrial fibrillation lasting more than 48 h but less than 1 year underwent transthoracic echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography before either electrical (n=324) or pharmacological (n=84) cardioversion.

RESULTS: Cardioversion was successful in restoring sinus rhythm in 328 (80%) and unsuccessful in 80 patients (20%). Mean left atrial appendage peak emptying flow velocity was significantly higher in patients with successful than in those with unsuccessful cardioversion (32.4 +/- 17.7 vs 23.5 +/- 13.6 cm x s(-1); P<0.0001). At multivariate logistic regression analysis, three parameters proved to be independent predictors of cardioversion success: the atrial fibrillation duration <2 weeks (P=0.011, OR=4.9, CI 95%=1.9-12.7), the mean left atrial appendage flow velocity >31 cm x s(-1) (P=0.0013, OR=2.8, CI 95%=1.5-5.4) and the left atrial diameter <47 mm (P=0.093, OR=2.0, CI 95%=1.2-3.4). These independent predictors of cardioversion success outperformed other univariate predictors such as left ventricular end-diastolic diameter <58 mm, ejection fraction >56% and the absence of left atrial spontaneous echo contrast.

CONCLUSION: In patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, measurement of the left atrial appendage flow velocity profile by transoesophageal echocardiography before cardioversion provides valuable information for prediction of cardioversion outcome.

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