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Article Dans Une Revue JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology Année : 2019

Exclusion of Intra-Atrial Thrombus Diagnosis Using D-Dimer Assay Before Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Jacques Mansourati
Arnaud Savouré
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Frédéric Sacher
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Frédéric Anselme
Alain Al Arnaout
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Walid Amara
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Mathieu Amelot
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Clément Bars
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Lucile Becoulet
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Paul Bru
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Philippe Chevalier
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Jean-Philippe Darmon
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Jean-Claude Deharo
Antoine Dompnier
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Cécile Duplantier-Duchene
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Fabrice Extramiana
Jean-Paul Faugier
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Charles Guenancia
Jérôme Horvilleur
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François Jourda
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Gabriel Laurent
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Nicolas Lellouche
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Isabelle Magnin Poull
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Olivier Piot
Antoine Roux
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Yannick Saludas
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Julien Seitz
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Jérôme Taieb
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Résumé

Objectives: This study hypothesized that the association of D-dimer blood level and several clinical items in a new risk score could predict the absence of atrial thrombus. Background: Symptomatic and drug resistant atrial fibrillation (AF) can be treated by catheter ablation. The procedure-related risk of thromboembolism is limited by the pre-operative use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to detect atrial thrombi. Methods: Patients admitted for catheter ablation of AF (n = 2,494) were prospectively included in a multicenter study. TEE was systematically performed before the procedure to search for atrial thrombus (primary endpoint). D-dimer level, CHADS2 score, left ventricular ejection fraction, pre-operative anticoagulation regimen, and medical history were collected. A logistic regression model was used to identify factors associated with the presence of atrial thrombus (hypertension, history of stroke, heart failure, D-dimer level >270 ng/ml). These factors were aggregated in a new score called atrial thrombus exclusion (ATE). Results: The incidence of atrial thrombus was 1.92%. CHADS2 score and D-dimer level were significantly associated with atrial thrombus (p < 0.0001 and p < 0.0001, respectively). A zero CHADS2 score failed to exclude all atrial thrombi (5 false negatives; sensitivity: 89.58%, specificity: 52.2%). No false negative was found with a zero ATE score, which had a specificity of 37% and a higher sensitivity (100%) than the CHADS2 score (p < 0.031) to predict the absence of intra-atrial thrombi on TEE. Conversely, the positive predictive value was poor, and the ATE score should not be used to conclude a positive diagnosis of thrombus. Conclusions: An ATE score of zero was strongly associated with the absence of atrial thrombus. This new score could be useful to rule out a diagnosis of atrial thrombus before catheter ablation of AF.

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hal-03208817 , version 1 (26-04-2021)

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Antoine Milhem, Pierre Ingrand, Frédéric Tréguer, Olivier Cesari, Antoine da Costa, et al.. Exclusion of Intra-Atrial Thrombus Diagnosis Using D-Dimer Assay Before Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2019, 5 (2), pp.223-230. ⟨10.1016/j.jacep.2018.09.009⟩. ⟨hal-03208817⟩
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