Table 5.
AF Incidence, Therapy and Anticoagulation
| Study | AF < 1 m | AF ≥ 1 m | Spontaneous c | Medical c | Electrical c | Rate control | Ablation | Surgery | OAC < 6 m | OAC ≥ 6 m | TIA | Stroke |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaeddini et al. (2006) [24] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | n n | n n | 0 | 0 |
| Kiblawi et al. (2006) [25] | 16 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Burow et al. (2008) [19] | 0 | 6 | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Staubach et al. (2009) [5] | 33 | 20 | 7 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| Wagdi (2010) [6] | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bonvini et al. (2010) [7] | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bronzetti et al. (2011) [26] | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | n n | n n |
| Furlan et al. (2012) [3] | 14 | 9 | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 13 | 12 |
| Heinisch et al. (2012) [31] | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | 4 | 6 |
| Kefer et al. (2012) [30] | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 0 | 5 |
| Stanczak et al. (2012) [32] | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Hornung et al. (2013) [27] | 18 | 22 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | 10 | 12 |
| Meier et al. (2013) [4] | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | 5 | 1 |
| Geis et al. (2015) [29] | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Scacciatella (2015) | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 |
| Ates et al. (2015) [23] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | 5 | 2 |
| Rigatelli et al. (2016) [8] | 47 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | n n | n n | n n | n n |
| Mas et al. (2017) [22] | 10 | 1 | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 7 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| Saver (2017) [20] | 7 | 1 | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 17 | 18 |
| He et al. (2020) [28] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n n | n n | 2 | 0 |
| Lee et al. (2018) [21] | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | n n | 0 | 0 |
| Andersen et al. (2021) [10] | 27 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| Leclercq et al. (2021) [11] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 201 | 112 | 44 | 83 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 56 | 76 | 73 |
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