Approach and strategy for repeat catheter ablation of recurrent atrial fibrillation.
Emrie TomaikoAndrew TsengWilliam B ReichertWilber W SuPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2019)
Patients with atrial fibrillation often undergo repeat catheter ablation for the recurrence of tachyarrhythmia. If the pulmonary veins were isolated in prior procedure, the operator should focus on substrate homogenization with identification and ablation of only arrhythmogenic areas.
Keyphrases
- catheter ablation
- atrial fibrillation
- left atrial
- left atrial appendage
- pulmonary hypertension
- oral anticoagulants
- heart failure
- direct oral anticoagulants
- minimally invasive
- inferior vena cava
- free survival
- bioinformatics analysis
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- amino acid
- pulmonary embolism
- coronary artery disease
- venous thromboembolism
- structural basis