Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
ISSN: 2155-9880
Adam E. Berman*, Deepak Nag Ayyala, Paul Maddux, Aaron Gopal and William White
Objective: Catheter Ablation (CA) of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) represents a mainstay of the treatment of this increasingly prevalent arrhythmia. Prospective clinical trials investigating the efficacy of CA may poorly represent real-world patient populations. However, many real-world clinical data sets possess missing data, which may impede their applicability in research. Thus, we sought to use ensemble modeling to address missing data and develop a model to estimate the probability of AF recurrence following CA.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed clinical variables in 476 patients who underwent an initial CA of AF. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine those variables predictive of AF recurrence. A multivariate logistic model was created to estimate the probability of AF recurrence after CA. Missing data was addressed using ensemble modeling and variable selection was performed using the aggregate of multiple models.
Results: After analysis, six variables remained in the model: AF during post-procedural blanking period, coexistence of atrial flutter, end-stage renal disease, reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, prior failure of anti-arrhythmic drugs, and valvular heart disease. Predictive modeling was performed using these variables for 1000 randomly partitioned datasets (80% training, 20% testing) and 1000 random imputations for each partitioned dataset. The model predicted AF recurrence with an accuracy of 74.34% ± 3.99%.
Conclusion: We successfully identified six clinical variables that when modeled, predicted AF recurrence following CA with a high degree of classification accuracy. Application of this model to patients undergoing CA of AF may help identify those at risk of post-procedural AF recurrence.
Published Date: 2023-01-10; Received Date: 2022-12-06
