Atrial fibrillation, electroconvulsive therapy, stroke risk, and anticoagulation

The Egyptian Heart Journal

Table 1 Summary of patient data

References	Age/sex	AF → SR	SR → AF	# ECT sessions
1. Craddock and Gilbert [10]	52 M		1	6
2. Harsch [7]	75 F	1	1	13
3. Hower and Yang [12]	70 M		1	38
4. Kuwahara et al. [17]	25 M		1	Not Specified
	46 M		1
	74 M		1
5.Loeffler and Capobianco [11]	45 M		1	> 25
6. Narasimhan [13]	70 F		1	1
7. O’Flanagan and Taylor [19]	54 M		1	10
8.O’Melia [14]	57 F		1	2
9. Olsen et al. [20]	21 M		1	Not Specified
10. Ottaway [9]	78 M	1		6
11. Petrides and Fink [8]	89 F	1	1	6
	76 F	1	1	7
	68 F	1		5
	64 M		1	6
12. Sattar et al. [18]	18 M		1	11
13. Urzal et al. [15]	64 M		1	> 2
14. Venditti et al. [16]	84 M		1	Not specified
	Total	5	17

Table summarizing patient data from each of the 14 included manuscripts: age and sex of each patient, conversion from atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm or sinus rhythm to atrial fibrillation with electroconvulsive therapy, and total number of electroconvulsive therapy sessions
AF atrial fibrillation, SR sinus rhythm, ECT electroconvulsive therapy