Device therapy for acute systolic heart failure and atrial fibrillation

Steven K Carlson; Rahul N Doshi

doi:10.1016/j.ccep.2015.05.016

Device therapy for acute systolic heart failure and atrial fibrillation

Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2015 Sep;7(3):469-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ccep.2015.05.016. Epub 2015 Jun 26.

Authors

Steven K Carlson¹, Rahul N Doshi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 322, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 322, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: Rahul.Doshi@med.usc.edu.

PMID: 26304527
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccep.2015.05.016

Abstract

Patients with newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy require careful assessment of cause and initiation of treatment before the decision is made to implant an internal cardiac defibrillator. In patients with medicine-refractory atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy, atrioventricular node ablation and implantation of a biventricular pacemaker is the therapy of choice when tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy is suspected and curative therapy is not possible.

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Atrioventricular node ablation; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Internal cardiac defibrillator; Pacemaker.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation / therapy*
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy*
Catheter Ablation*
Defibrillators, Implantable*
Exercise Test
Heart Failure, Systolic / therapy*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged