[2019 Catheter Ablation Registry of the Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing]. / Registro Italiano Ablazioni 2019. Associazione Italiana di Aritmologia e Cardiostimolazione.
G Ital Cardiol (Rome)
; 22(12): 1034-1037, 2021 Dec.
Article
in It
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34845406
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
This report describes the findings of the 2019 Italian Catheter Ablation Registry of the Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing (AIAC).METHODS:
Data collection was retrospective. A standardized questionnaire was completed by each of the participating centers.RESULTS:
A total of 15 201 ablation procedures were performed by 91 institutions. Most (78%) of the centers has one electrophysiology laboratory, and 17% of them has a hybrid cardiac surgery laboratory. Almost all (98%) centers have a 3D mapping system. The median number of electrophysiologists and nurses involved in the electrophysiology laboratory was 3 and an electrophysiology technician was involved in 30% of all centers. In 88.4% of cases, ablations were performed for supraventricular arrhythmias, and among these the most frequently treated arrhythmia was atrial fibrillation (32.9%), followed by atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (23.9%), and common atrial flutter (11.7%). In 10 256 (67.4%) patients catheter ablation was performed by means of a 3D mapping system, with a "near-zero" fluoroscopic approach in 4626 (30.4%) of all patients.CONCLUSIONS:
The 2019 Italian Catheter Ablation Registry confirmed that atrial fibrillation is the most commonly treated arrhythmia in the ablation centers with an increasing number of procedures performed with a 3D mapping system and a "near-zero" approach.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Atrial Fibrillation
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Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry
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Catheter Ablation
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
It
Journal:
G Ital Cardiol (Rome)
Journal subject:
CARDIOLOGIA
Year:
2021
Type:
Article