The Risk Profile for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Does Not Affect the Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation

Abstract

Long-term pacemaker recording of AF recurrence, AF burden, and its circadian distribution is similar in patients with paroxysmal AF at high risk for OSA and those at low risk for OSA.

Sleep Disordered Breathing and Arrhythmia Burden in Pacemaker Recipients

“…The frequency and duration of paroxysmal AF events was similar in patients with and without SDB that is in agreement with previous reports in a larger population of patients with permanent PM 13 . A low prevalence of overall arrhythmic events similar to that observed in our study has been reported previously in a larger cohort of patients aged >65 years with SDB 14 …”

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Atrial Fibrillation

“…Except for a few studies showing the lack of increased incidence of OSA in AF patients, the majority of studies demonstrated otherwise. 26,27 For example, Gami et al prospectively studied consecutive patients undergoing electrocardioversion for AF (n=151) and consecutive 312 patients referred to a general cardiology practice without a past or current history of AF (n=312). 7 They showed the proportion of patients with OSA was significantly higher in the AF group than in the general cardiology group (49 % versus 32 %; p=0.0004).…”

Cardiac autonomic function and cardiac arrhythmias in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

“…Bazı çalışmalarda bradikardi, atriyoventriküler blok, atriyum fibrilasyonu, VEA ve ventrikül taşikardisi gibi aritmiler ile TUAS arasında ilişki gösterilirken, bazı çalışmalarda ise aritmiler ile TUAS arasında herhangi bir ilişki bulunmamıştır. [17,[26][27][28][29][30] Sleep Heart Health çalışmasında, TUAS hastalarında ventrikül taşikardisi ve süreksiz ventrikül taşikardisi sıklığında artış gösterilmiştir. [17] Çalışmamızda da TUAS grubunda saptanan artmış AEA ve VEA sıklığı bu verileri desteklemektedir.…”