Registry Initiative Across Borders for Atrial Fibrillation in Africa

Atrial fibrillation is a penalizing disease in several ways: morbidity and mortality, health costs. Several multicenter registries have been published. Until now, no multicenter registry involving several countries has been carried out in Africa. The goal of RIBAT AF Africa is to fill this gap, by recruting patients from twelve african centers. All the centers are a third level Atrial Fibrillation managment facility centers.

After recruitment , a complete clinical assessment with analysis of comorbidities will be a priority of this registry to try to understand the epidemiological profile of atrial fibrillation in Africa. Then, we will proceed to the temporal classification of atrial fibrillation according to the 2024 ESC recommendations (type and thromboembolic risk in particular.).

After this step, the management will be analyzed with three main axes: management of comorbidities, antithrombotic treatment, rhythm and frequency control. Some therapeutic techniques such as ablation of atrial fibrillation were discussed without much detail because many countries do not yet have access to these expensive techniques.

A six-month evaluation is necessary to judge above all the applicability of the measures accessible in all countries and in particular anticoagulant treatment.

All these data will be recorded anonymously and electronically. Each country can have access to its own data anytime. The statistical analysis will be carried out by a team within the University Hospital of Tangier , as well as all IT logistics. This team will also organize electronic monitoring and underlying all abnomalities in CRF.