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Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation: wait or stop early after initial successful pulmonary vein isolation?

Author(s) -

Dietmar Bänsch,

Jenny Bittkau,

R. Schneider,

Cindy Schneider,

Imke Wendig,

İbrahim Akın,

Christoph Nienaber

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1093/europace/eus205

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary vein , atrial fibrillation , isolation (microbiology) , ablation , cardiology , vein , catheter ablation , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the current standard of interventional atrial fibrillation (Afib) therapy. However, recurrence rate of Afib varies considerably after ablation between different series and is mainly attributed to the recovery of pulmonary vein (PV) conduction after initial successful PVI.

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