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Present Role and Future Perspectives of Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
- Source :
- New Advances in Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation ISBN: 9788847021693
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Springer Milan, 2003.
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Abstract
- Transcatheter ablation of atrial fibrillation has been recently developed and is part now of the armamentarium in the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The ablation of atrial fibrillation started out from the experience of the surgical maze procedure, which showed very encouraging results but at a high price because it required open chest surgery. In the following years the attempt has been made to produce similar results using transcatheter ablation. Different approaches have been used: linear lesions mimicking the surgical maze operation, linear lesions in the right or left atrium using different schemes, or a sequential approach ablating first in the right and then in the left atrium.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Radiofrequency ablation
Ablation of atrial fibrillation
Left atrium
Atrial fibrillation
medicine.disease
Pulmonary vein
law.invention
medicine.anatomical_structure
Transcatheter ablation
law
Internal medicine
Surgical Maze Procedure
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Chest surgery
business
Subjects
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- ISBN :
- 978-88-470-2169-3
- ISBNs :
- 9788847021693
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New Advances in Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation ISBN: 9788847021693
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........711a559b2cfc4b7de5b8743d342c63b5