Review Article
Organized Atrial Tachycardias after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
| Author and year | Number of patients | Number of ATs studied | ATs amenable to mapping | AT change during entrainment | AT change during RF | AT successfully ablated | Followup: persistence in SR | Followup: AT recurrence | Redo procedures for AT recurrence |
| Paponne et al. 2004 [17] | 39 | 39 | 39/39 (100%) | Not reported | Not reported | 39/39 (100%) | 39/39 (100%) | 6/39 (15%) early after ablation | 0% | Kobza et al. 2004 [20] | 10 | 20 | 19/20 (95%) | Not reported | Not reported | 16/19 (84%) | Not reported | 1/10 (10%) | Not reported | Mesas et al. 2004 [16] | 13 | 14 | 12/14 (86%) | Not reported | 1/14 (7%) | 13/14 (93%) | 11/13 (85%) | 1/13 (8%) | 1/13 (8%) | Gerstenfeld et al. 2004 [33] | 10 | 10 | 9/10 (90%) | 1/10 (10%) | 0% | 9/10 (90%) | 9/10 (90%) | 0% | 0% | Chugh et al. 2005 [18] | 28 | >28 (30 reported) | 28/30 (93%) | 1/30 (3%): original AT could not be reinduced | Not reported | Success in 22/28 patients (79%) | 18/22 (82%) | 3/22 (14%) | 3/22 (14%) patients after a successful procedure | Ouyang et al. 2005 [38] | 21 | 17 | 15/17 (88%) | Not reported | Not reported | 14/15 (93%) | 21/21 (100%) | 0% | 0% | Cummings et al. 2005 [34] | 23 | Only PV reisolation | PV reisolation only | Not reported | Not reported | 100% reisolation success | 82% of patients | 9% of patients | 9% of patients | Jaïs et al. 2006 [64] | 14 | 14 | Only a specific type of AT | Not reported | Not reported | 14/14 (100%) | 11/14 (79%) | 3/14 (21%) | 2/14 (14%) | Daoud et al. 2006 [19] | 9 | 17 | 13/17 (76%) | Not reported | Not reported | 16/17 (94%) | 100% of patients with successful procedure | 0% | 0% | Chae et al. 2007 [21] | 78 | 155 | 155/155 (100%) | Not reported | Not reported | 134/155 (86%) | 60/78 (77%) | 18/66 (27%) acute success | 14/66 (21%) | Patel et al. 2008 [72] | 17 | 41 | 33/41 (80%) | 7/33 (21%): original AT could not be reinduced | Not reported | 25/41 (61%) | 13/17(76%) | 4/17 (24%) | 2/17 (12%) | Satomi et al. 2008 [36] | 8 | 8 | Only a specific type of AT | Not reported | Not reported | 8/8 (100%) | 7/8 (88%) | 0% | 0% |
Takahashi et al. 2008 [55] | 9 | Multiple (>15) AT | All except one | Not reported | 4/9 (44%), all localized reentries | All except 3 | 8/9 (89%) | 1/9 (11%) | None | Lim et al. 2008 [89] | 18 | ≥23 | 20 (at least 3 were not stable enough to be mapped) | Not reported | Not reported | 20/20 (100%) | Not clearly reported, 79% including AF patients | Not reported | Not reported | Deisenhoffer et al. 2009 [15] | 16 | 55 | 38/55 (69%) | Not reported | Not reported | 23/55 (42%) | 6/16 (38%) | 7/16 (44%) | 5/16 (31%) | Chang et al. 2009 [28] | 26 | 48 | 48/48 (100%) | Not reported | 5/48 (10%) | 48/48 (100%) | 20-21/26 (79%) | 1/26 (19%) | 1/26 (19%) | Rostock et al. 2010 [57] | 61 | 133 | 132/133 (99%) | 5/132 (3,8%) | 45/61 initial AT (74%) | 124/133 (93%) | 50/61 (82%) | 7/61 (11,5%) | 5/61 (8%) |
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