Approaches to Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
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- 7 May 2015
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 372 (19) , 1812-1822
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1408288
Abstract
Catheter ablation is less successful for persistent atrial fibrillation than for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Guidelines suggest that adjuvant substrate modification in addition to pulmonary-vein isolation is required in persistent atrial fibrillation.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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