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Atrial Fibrillation and Heart failure: Good Old Friends
Adrian Baranchuk MD FACC FRCPC Associate Professor of Medicine Director, EP Training Program
Queen’s University
International Session: Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology, Inter-American Society of Cardiology and
American College of Cardiology San Diego, ACC.15
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Conflict of Interest
• Unrestricted Grant from Bayer • Unrestricted Grant from
Medtronic • Honorarium to deliver
conferences for Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic, St Jude
• No conflict of interest for this specific talk
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Good Old Friends: What does it mean?
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Old Friends Can Be Good Friends…but not necessarily…
• Are AF and CHF Good friends?
• Are they always together?
• How do they treat each other?
• Do they make favors to each other?
• Are they the ONLY good friends in this story?
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The Three Stooges: AF-CHF-OSA
AF
CHF
OSA
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Overview
• Epidemiology
• Physiopathology
• Interactions
• Associations
• Outcomes
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Epidemiology: Facts about CHF
• CHF affects 5,000,000 people in US
• >550,000 new cases every year
• 12-15 million visits per year
• 6,5 million hospital/days per year
• In 2007: 33 billion dollars
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• AF is the most common arrhythmia in daily practice
• 2.3 million people in NA
• In the last 20 years, admission due to AF increased by 66%
• By 2050, 5,6 million may have AF in NA
Epidemiology: Facts about AF
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Physiopathology
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CHF AF
Physiopathology
CHF AF
AF CHF Increased HR, shorter diastolic filling pressure, ↓ CO, irregularity of ventricular response, loss of atrial kick, Tachy-induced CM, impact of AAD
↑ cardiac filling pressures, Ca++ dysregulation, ANS dysfunction, neuroendocirne imbalance, dispersion of refractoriness, interstitial fibrosis
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Interactions: Prognostic factor
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OSA
A role for a trio rather than a duo?
CHF AF
• OSA aggravates the course of CHF • OSA and AF are associated • AF and CHF are associated • The presence of OSA turns difficult the treatment of AF &CHF
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Sleep Apnea
Tachyarrhythmias Bradyarrhythmias
Atrial overdrivepacing
Heart failure
• Supra/ventricular arrhythmia• ? CRT
Autonomic dysfunction
• Atrial Fibrillation• Ventricular arrhythmia
• Systemic hypertension• Pulmonary hypertension
Stroke
Baranchuk et al. Europace 2008; 10(6):666-667
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Challenges for treatment
• OSA: no treatment implies more AF and CHF, but treatment may be deleterious in CHF (Canpap Study)
• CHF: Treatment is mandatory to decrease both OSA & AF (Role of CRT)
• AF: Treatment is beneficial to control physiopathological aspects, but maybe deleterious for CHF (AAD) + Poor impact on mortality. Role for Pace/ablate and for CRT/ablate
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Rhythm control or Rate control for AF in patients with
CHF?
NEJM 2008
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Invasive rate-control
• PACE-Ablate: in patients with low LVEF it may aggravate CHF due to dyssynchrony
• CRT-Ablate: as patients becomes dependent, CRT maybe beneficial to control for CHF (CERTIFY Study)
DOWNFALL: AF attenuates the benefit of CRT!!! PRO: Collateral benefit of CRT on OSA!!!!
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“CRT reduces AHI in patients with Central SA but not in OSA”
Lamba, Baranchuk et al. Europace 2011
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Invasive rhythm-control
• PVI: Initial LVEF improvement, but the benefit depends on ability to stay in NSR without AAD
• RAFT-AF Study: Ongoing
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Bunch TJ. JCE 2014
(3 groups: AF ablation-267-, No AF ablation-1068-, No AF-1068)
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Conclusions
• More questions than answers despite >100 metaanalysis
• AF-CHF-OSA are frequently associated
• Selecting appropriate therapy is key
• Controlling for impacting the other factor is also key
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• ADD can be deleterious for CHF
• Pace-ablate in systolic dysfunction should be abandoned
• Consider CRT-Ablate
• Consider PVI as rhythm-control
Conclusions (cont)