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First Evidence of Clinical Benefit of Robotically Driven Catheter Ablation or an Outlayer?
Author(s) -
ALMENDRAL JESÚS
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1111/pace.12509
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary vein , atrial fibrillation , catheter ablation , cardiology , ablation , catheter , electrical conduction system of the heart , surgery , electrocardiography
Results of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) are far from optimal at the present time. Even in paroxysmal AF, where there is general agreement on the crucial role of the atrial muscle around the pulmonary vein ostial region in the genesis of AF,1 antral pulmonary vein isolation not infrequently fails in providing long-term AF free status.