Atrial Fibrillation: Beyond the Pulmonary Veins

Despite these elegant studies, electrophysiologists continue to seek guidance over what to target in 2 important AF patient populations: persistent AF and recurrent AF. Because recent published data shows that established ablation strategies including complex fractionated atrial electrograms ablatio...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 67; no. 22; pp. 2700 - 2701
Main Authors Schricker, Amir A., Krummen, David E., Hsu, Jonathan C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 07.06.2016
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Atrial Fibrillation
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Catheter Ablation
Catheters
Humans
Patients
Pulmonary Veins
Studies
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Summary:Despite these elegant studies, electrophysiologists continue to seek guidance over what to target in 2 important AF patient populations: persistent AF and recurrent AF. Because recent published data shows that established ablation strategies including complex fractionated atrial electrograms ablation and linear lesions serve primarily to elevate complication risk without improving outcomes, it is incumbent upon future studies to evaluate in randomized fashion ablation strategies that evaluate alternative lesion sets versus those that target AF-sustaining mechanisms in these challenging patient subgroups.
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ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2016.01.092