Complications of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases.

J Clin Med · 2026 · PMC13163545 · PMID 42123210

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Although patients with diagnosis codes of rheumatic diseases were found to have a significantly higher rate of complications compared to those without, this association did not reach statistical significance in a multivariate analysis ( p = 0.07), implying that the difference might be driven by the higher rate of baseline comorbidities and the female sex of these patients.

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