Table 2.
Neuropsychological assessment pre-ablation and 6 months post-ablation according to atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence.
| AF recurrence >90 days post-ablation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (n = 20/20) | Yes (n = 16/17) | ||||
| Pre-LACA | Day 180 | Pre-LACA | Day 180 | p* | |
| Attention and executive functions | |||||
| Trail-making test A; s | 36 (27–47) | 38 (29–56) | 39 (26–43) | 30 (25–43) | 0.262 |
| Trail-making test B; s | 89 (77–129) | 84 (67–120) | 74 (65–102) | 67 (60–108) | 0.149 |
| Color–word-interference test (Stroop); s | 153 (141–182) | 136 (125–172) | 156 (135–160) | 124 (105–142) | 0.077 |
| Category fluency; n | 24 (18–30) | 26 (21–31) | 26 (21–31) | 28 (24–30) | 0.888 |
| Letter fluency; n | 17 (11–19) | 14 (9–22) | 17 (11–19) | 17 (15–20) | 0.286 |
| Digit-span backward; points | 8 (7–9) | 8 (6–9) | 8 (7–10) | 9 (8–11) | 0.189 |
| Short-term memory | |||||
| Digit-span forward; points | 6 (5–7) | 6 (5–8) | 7 (6–10) | 9 (6–11) | 0.369 |
| Learning (verbal and non-verbal) | |||||
| RAVLTa; n | 1 (−1 to 3) | 9 (8–11) | 0 (−3 to 5) | 10 (7–11) | 0.832 |
| ROC figureb; points | 23 (20–27) | 26 (24–28) | 30 (25–32) | 27 (26–32) | 0.779 |
| Reasoning | |||||
| LPS 50c; points | 21 (16–24) | 21 (17–25) | 23 (20–26) | 3 (0–4) | 0.236 |
*p values based on exact Mann–Whitney test.
aRey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (German Version); delayed recall (A7).
bRey–Osterrieth complex figure; immediate recall.
cSubtest 3 from the German Leistungsprüfsystem (LPS).
Values are expressed as median (IQR).