Dr. Russo and her colleagues from the division of cardiovascular medicine at Penn will present research on disparities in treatment of women suffering atrial fibrillation, one of the most common abnormal heart rhythms.
Although women represent more than half of patients with this serious rhythm problem, they are less likely to be referred for atrial fibrillation ablation – a therapy that uses radiofrequency energy to cauterize the heart tissue around each pulmonary vein to keep abnormal electrical signals from reaching the rest of the heart and triggering the faulty rhythm – than men.
Russo studied 1,165 women and men who underwent ablation at Penn and found that both groups had similar arrhythmia control at 24 months after the procedure (84 percent of women and 89 percent of men), suggesting that more women should be referred for ablation therapy. -University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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