Approaches to Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Verma, Atul; Jiang, Chenyang; R. Betts, Timothy; Chen, Jian; Deisenhofer, Isabel; Mantovan, Roberto; Macle, Laurent; A. Morillo, Carlos; Haverkamp, Wilhelm; Weerasooriya, Rukshen; Albenque, Jean‐Paul; Nardi, Stefano; Menardi, Endrj; Novak, Paul; Sanders, Prashanthan

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1408288

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Approaches to Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • May 6, 2015

Authors:

Atul Verma

Chenyang Jiang

Timothy R. Betts

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Catheter ablation is less successful for persistent atrial fibrillation than for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Guidelines suggest that adjuvant substrate modification in addition to pulmonary-vein isolation is required in persistent atrial fibrillation. METHODS: We randomly assigned 58...

Subject

Medicine

Atrial fibrillation

Pulmonary vein

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