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Termination of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Resistant to Cardioversion by a Single Radiofrequency Application
Author(s) -
HERWEG BENGT,
KOWALSKI MARCIN,
STEINBERG JONATHAN S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00203.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardioversion , atrial fibrillation , cardiology
This report describes the termination of persistent AF refractory to multiple cardioversions and antiarrhythmic therapy in a patient without structural heart disease, with a single radiofrequency application delivered in the left upper pulmonary vein. The observations and failure of repeated internal and external cardioversion suggest a rapidly firing arrhythmia focus sustaining atrial fibrillation amenable to curative pulmonary vein ablation. (PACE 2003; 26:1420–1423)