2018
Association of Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Phenotypes with Treatment Patterns and Outcomes: A Multicenter Registry Study
Inohara T, Shrader P, Pieper K, Blanco RG, Thomas L, Singer DE, Freeman JV, Allen LA, Fonarow GC, Gersh B, Ezekowitz MD, Kowey PR, Reiffel JA, Naccarelli GV, Chan PS, Steinberg BA, Peterson ED, Piccini JP. Association of Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Phenotypes with Treatment Patterns and Outcomes: A Multicenter Registry Study. JAMA Cardiology 2018, 3: 54-63. PMID: 29128866, PMCID: PMC5833527, DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2017.4665.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAtrial fibrillationAtherosclerotic comorbiditiesMajor bleedingComorbidity clustersNeurological eventsClinical outcomesDevice implantationORBIT-AF II registryPrior coronary artery diseaseAtrial Fibrillation RegistryComorbid behavioral disordersMulticenter registry studyBaseline clinical characteristicsImportance of comorbiditiesBetter Informed TreatmentSinus node dysfunctionCoronary artery diseaseData-driven cluster analysisHemostasis criteriaClinical characteristicsObservational cohortRegistry studyTotal patientsArtery diseaseAtrial size
2017
Long-term morbidity and mortality after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation with procedural complication: A report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry
Kipp R, Hsu JC, Freeman J, Curtis J, Bao H, Hoffmayer KS. Long-term morbidity and mortality after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation with procedural complication: A report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Heart Rhythm 2017, 15: 847-854. PMID: 28987459, DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.09.043.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCause mortalityMedicare beneficiariesICD implantationProcedural complicationsHospital characteristicsMultivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysisNational Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD RegistryCox proportional hazards regression analysisFirst-time ICD recipientsImplantable cardioverter defibrillator implantationNational Cardiovascular Data RegistryProportional hazards regression analysisKaplan-Meier survival analysisLong-term morbidityPredictors of mortalityCardioverter-defibrillator implantationOccurrence of complicationsRetrospective registry studyAcute procedural complicationsHazards regression analysisLong-term outcomesRisk of mortalityMortality 3 yearsIndex hospitalizationRegistry study