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Cryoballoon or Radiofrequency Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Author(s) -

Karl-Heinz Kuck,

Josép Brugada,

Alexander Fürnkranz,

Andreas Metzner,

Feifan Ouyang,

K.R. Julian Chun,

Arif Elvan,

Thomas Arentz,

Kurt Bestehorn,

Stuart J. Pocock,

Jean-Paul Albenque,

Claudio Tondo

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1602014

Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , hazard ratio , cardiology , clinical endpoint , radiofrequency ablation , ablation , pulmonary vein , catheter ablation , atrial tachycardia , confidence interval , atrial flutter , randomized controlled trial , surgery

Current guidelines recommend pulmonary-vein isolation by means of catheter ablation as treatment for drug-refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Radiofrequency ablation is the most common method, and cryoballoon ablation is the second most frequently used technology.

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