Approaches to Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

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Authors

Atul Verma · Southlake Regional Health Center

Chenyang Jiang · Zhejiang University

Timothy R. Betts · John Radcliffe Hospital

Jian Chen · Haukeland University Hospital

Isabel Deisenhofer · Deutsches Herzzentrum München

Roberto Mantovan · Ospedale “M. Bufalini” di Cesena

Laurent Macle

Abstract

Among patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, we found no reduction in the rate of recurrent atrial fibrillation when either linear ablation or ablation of complex fractionated electrograms was performed in addition to pulmonary-vein isolation. (Funded by St. Jude Medical; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01203748.).

Topics & Keywords

Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

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Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 372, Issue 19, pp. 1812-1822

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1408288

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