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Author(s):
Tauseef Akhtar
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Ronald Berger
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Joseph E Marine
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et al
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3 years ago
AF is a common and clinically impactful arrhythmia. Given both the association of AF with aging and the increasing number of elderly people in the general population, it follows that many AF patients are of advanced age. The management of AF in the geriatric population is associated with several challenges, including multiple comorbidities, increased toxicity of antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD), an…
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Author(s):
David Schaack
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Boris Schmidt
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Shota Tohoku
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et al
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11 months ago
Author(s):
Gian-Battista Chierchia
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Saverio Iacopino
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Carlo de Asmundis
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3 years ago
Pulmonary vein (PV) isolation is currently an established treatment for drug-resistant AF.1 A left common PV (LCPV) is present in 9–83 % of the patients, depending on the definition used,2,3 and counts as the most frequent PV variation, followed by a right accessory middle vein. In recent years, cryoballoon (CB) ablation has emerged as a valid alternative to traditional point-by-point…
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Author(s):
Shaojie Chen
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Boris Schmidt
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Stefano Bordignon
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et al
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained tachyarrhythmia. Catheter ablation is the most effective treatment for AF, and pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the cornerstone of all AF ablation strategies. The use of a radiofrequency (RF) catheter in combination with a 3D electro-anatomical mapping system is the most well established approach to AF ablation. However, manipulating a RF…
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Author(s):
David Filgueiras-Rama
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Jose L Merino
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in the clinical practice.1 The prevalence of the arrhythmia is progressively increasing in developed countries and moreover, it is expected to affect up to 12 million people only in the US by 2050.2 Antiarrhythmic drugs continue to represent the first-line of treatment in AF patients, either to restore sinus rhythm or to prevent…
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Author(s):
Fehmi Keçe
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Katja Zeppenfeld
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Serge A Trines
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3 years ago
Catheter ablation is an effective strategy to maintain sinus rhythm in patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF), which has evolved from a highly specialised technique to a first-line therapy.1–3 The cornerstone of ablation is pulmonary vein isolation (PVI).4 Over the last decade, ablation devices have undergone technical improvements, aiming for better lesion durability and ablation…
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Author(s):
Shinsuke Miyazaki
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Hiroshi Tada
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3 years ago
Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has become an accepted therapeutic strategy for AF.1 The cryoballoon (CB) ablation system has been introduced into clinical practice as a tool for a single-shot anatomical based-PVI, and a comparable efficacy of the CB ablation to radiofrequency (RF) ablation has been demonstrated in a prospective randomised study.2–4
The recently introduced second-generation CB …
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Author(s):
Lisa WM Leung
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Zaki Akhtar
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Jamal Hayat
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et al
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Andreas Metzner
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Erik Wissner
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Tina Lin
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et al
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia affecting 1.5–2 % of the general population.1 In the current clinical guidelines, catheter ablation is recommended in addition to drug-based antiarrhythmic therapy for patients suffering from symptomatic, drugrefractory AF. However, catheter ablation, if performed at an experienced centre, may also serve as first-line therapy in…
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6 years ago