Heart failure complicated by atrial fibrillation
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Using methods proposed by the Cochrane Collaboration and meeting the reporting criteria of the 202010 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, we searched databases using PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, and Cochrane advanced search. The following keywords were used: heart failure, heart failure with reduced LVEF, atrial fibrillation ablation, pulmonary vein isolation, improved outcome, randomized clinical trial
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria were non-RCTs, case reports, animal studies, and non-English language articles.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome of this meta-analysis is the integrated risk ratio of major cardiac events in the ablation and non-ablation groups. Cardiac events were defined as all-cause mortality and hospitalization for worsening heart failure | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Yokohama City University Hospital Department of Diagnostic Radiology