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Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology On the Beat - Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology June 2019 Issue

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology June 2019 Issue

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology On the Beat

06/18/19 • 17 min

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Dr. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wong, editor-in-chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.

In our first paper, Jeremy Wasserlauf and associates compare the accuracy of an atrial fibrillation sensing smartwatch with simultaneous recordings from an insertable cardiac monitor.

The authors use smart rhythm 2.0, a convolutional neuro-network, trained on anonymized data of heart rate, activity level and EKGs from 7500 AliveCor users.

The network was validated on data collected in 24 patients with insertable cardiac monitor, and a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation who simultaneously wore the atrial fibrillation sensing smart watch with smart rhythm 0.1 software.

The primary outcome was sensitivity of the atrial fibrillation sensing smart watch for atrial fibrillation episodes of greater than equal to one hour. Secondary end points include sensitivity of atrial fibrillation sensing smart watch for detection of atrial fibrillation by subject and sensitivity for total duration across all subjects.

Subjects with greater than 50% false positive atrial fibrillation episodes on insertable cardiac monitor were excluded.

The authors analyzed 31,349 hours meaning 11.3 hours per day of simultaneous atrial fibrillation sensing smart watch and insertable cardiac monitor recordings in 24 patients. Insertable cardiac monitor detected 82 episodes of atrial fibrillation of one hour duration or greater while the atrial fibrillation sensing smartwatch was worn. With a total duration of 1,127 hours.

Of these, the smart rhythm 2.0 neural network detected 80 episodes. Episode sensitivity 97.5% with total duration 1,101 hours. Duration sensitivity 97.7%.

Three of the 18 subjects with atrial fibrillation of one hour or greater had atrial fibrillation only when the watch was not being worn. Patient sensitivity 83.3% or 100% during the time worn. Positive predictive value for atrial fibrillation episodes was 39.9%.

The authors concluded that an atrial fibrillation sensing smartwatch is highly sensitive to detection of atrial fibrillation and assessment of atrial fibrillation duration in an ambulatory population when compared to insertable cardiac monitor.

In our next paper, Liliana Tavares and associates examine the autonomic nervous system response to apnea in its mechanistic connection to atrial fibrillation. They study the effects of ablation of cardiac sensory neurons with resiniferatoxin, a neurotoxic transient receptor potential vanilloid one agonist.

In a canine model, apnea was induced by stopping ventilation until oxygen saturation decreased in 90%. Nerve recordings from bilateral vagal nerves left stellate ganglion and anterior right ganglion plexi were obtained before and during apnea, before and after resiniferatoxin injection in the anterior white ganglion plexi in seven animals.

Each refractory period and atrial fibrillation inducibility upon single extra stimulation was assessed before and during apnea, before and after intrapericardial resiniferatoxin administration in nine animals.

The authors found that apnea increased anterior wide ganglion plexi activity followed by cluster crescendo vagal bursts synchronized with heart rate and blood pressure oscillation.

Upon further oxygen desaturation, a tonic increase in left stellate ganglion activity in blood pressure oscillations ensued. Apnea induced atrial effective refractory shortening from 110 to 90 milliseconds, P less than 0.001 and atrial fibrillation induction in nine animals vs. zero out of nine at baseline.

After resiniferatoxin administration increases in ganglion plexi and left stellate ganglion activity, and blood pressure during apnea were abolished, in addition, the atrial effector refractory period increased to 127 milliseconds, P=0.0001 and atrial fibrillation was not induced.

Vagal bursts remain unchanged. Ganglion plexi cells showed cytoplasmic microvacuolation and apoptosis. The authors concluded that apnea increased ganglion plexi activity followed by vagal bursts and tonic left stellate ganglion firing. Resiniferatoxin decreases sympathetic and ganglion plexi nerve activity, abolishes apnea's electrophysiotic response and atrial fibrillation inducibility indicating that sensory neurons play a role in apnea induced atrial fibrillation.

In our next paper, Thomas Pambrun and associates examined whether using unipolar signal modification as a local end point would improve the safety and efficacy of high-power ablation during pulmonary vein isolation. They studied four swine and 100 consecutive patients referred for pulmonary vein isolation with the first 50 patients in a control group using 25 to 30 watts and the last 50 patients in a study group with 40 to 50 watts.

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