Follow up of Radiofrequency Maze in Mitral Patients

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

168 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2002-01-31

Brief Summary

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The present study aimed at evaluating mid-term results of radiofrequency modified maze procedure in mitral patients in terms of sinus rhythm and atrial contractility restoration

Detailed Description

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Atrial fibrillation presents with different frequencies in patients affected by structural heart diseases requiring surgery, showing a peak incidence of up to 60-80% in mitral subjects. It causes an increased risk of systemic embolism, cardiac failure development and higher limitations due to dyspnoea and fatigue on exercise. Cox-Maze technique for surgical atrial fibrillation treatment was first used in 1987 and suffered lots of modifications since then. Nowadays, most centers have replaced the "cut and sew" technique by other methods using several power sources to achieve the same target in a much easier way. One of the alternative energy source currently used is radiofrequency ablation which has been demonstrated to be a simple, safe and reproducible procedure with an acceptable success rate in terms of sinus rhythm restoration. However, organized atrial activity (sinus rhythm on surface electrocardiogram) is not always accompanied by an effective mechanical atrial contraction, whose restoration represents one of the original Maze objective. Atrial contraction is effective when A waves are found in tricuspid and/or mitral transvalvular flow using Doppler echocardiography, allowing the patient to fully profit from hemodynamic and clinical advantages of an organized atrial contraction. Predictive factors of atrial contractility recovery and, more widely, of sinus rhythm achievement after modified Maze procedures have been investigated, but, at our knowledge, a parallel deep analysis and comparison of possible determinants of both surgical ablation goals is still lacking. In the present study, the investigators describe mid-term results of concomitant modified radiofrequency Maze in a large homogeneous population of mitral patients, focusing onto common predictors of sinus rhythm and atrial contractility restoring, their time course appearance and interrelation.

Conditions

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Atrial Fibrillation

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Radiofrequency maze procedure

Radiofrequency energy was used to create continous endocardial and epicardial lesions mimicking most of the left atrial incisions set as described in the Cox Maze III procedure. In the first 70 patients a monopolar technology was employed (Cardioblate Surgical Ablation Pen, Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA - cooled tip cardioblate pen, power ranging from 25 to 35 W), while in the subset of patients who underwent surgery after July 2005 a bipolar device was used (Cardioblate BP2 Irrigated RF Surgical Ablation System, Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA). The tip of both types of RF probe was irrigated with saline at room temperature at a flow rate of 4-6 ml/min.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Transthoracic echocardiography

Contemporary to clinical follow up, all patients were evaluated with 2-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography by the same cardiologist at 3,6,12 and 24 months in order to specifically monitor left atrial contractility presence.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients affected by atrial fibrillation undergoing mitral valve surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* Other cardiac procedures in addition to mitral valve surgery

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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Claudia Loardi

MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Claudia Loardi, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centro Cardiologico Monzino Milano - Italy

Other Identifiers

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ACFA2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id