Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with a sham procedure, pulmonary vein isolation reduced atrial fibrillation burden at 6 months.

Affecting as many as 6 million people in the United States, atrial fibrillation (or AFib) occurs when the heart's upper chambers beat out of coordination with the lower chambers, resulting in an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers conducted RACE-AF, a single-center, prospective, randomized, patient-controlled clinical trial, ...

Forty-seven of the 51 (92%) patients were in sinus rhythm at the end of their procedure. All but three patients had successful electrical isolation of all pulmonary veins. Eight (15%) patients had a ...

Over the past 5 years, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has evolved from an experimental procedure to one that is performed in most large medical centers throughout the world. The rapid ...

Doha, Qatar: The View Hospital, in affiliation with Cedars-Sinai, is proud to announce a groundbreaking achievement, having successfully performed the first pulmonary vein isolation procedure and the ...

Current evidence on the efficacy and safety of percutaneous balloon cryoablation for pulmonary vein isolation in atrial fibrillation is adequate to support the use of this procedure provided that ...

The system enters a field that sees PFA catheters largely displacing thermal modalities for catheter ablation of AF.

A transesophageal echocardiogram was performed prior to each procedure. Pulmonary vein isolation was performed under intravenous sedation with midazolam and fentanyl [12] or less commonly under ...