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.

LONDON -- Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) produced real short-term improvements for people with atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), according to the first sham-controlled trial on the subject. Continuous ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Lutheran Hospital offers a modernized alternative of a procedure to treat atrial fibrillation, or AFib, a serious heart rhythm disorder that affects an estimated 2.7 million ...

London, United Kingdom – 2 September 2024: A catheter ablation procedure widely used to treat the most common heart rhythm disorder significantly reduces the burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) and ...

London, United Kingdom – 2 September 024: In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), standard treatment with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation resulted in similar outcomes to more ...

A catheter ablation procedure widely used to treat the most common heart rhythm disorder significantly reduces the burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) and results in clinically important improvements ...

LONDON, England—The impact of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI)—the mainstay of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF)—should not be attributed to placebo effects, according to the SHAM-PVI trial ...

As effective as catheter ablation can be for patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), the procedure that aims for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has met much less success in those with ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel catheter for very high-power short-duration ablation for pulmonary vein isolation reduced procedure time ...

The recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after catheter ablation occurs in 11% to 41% of patients. 1 A recent study by Masuda and colleagues 2 reports that the presence of left atrial low-voltage ...

Younger atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients are most likely to benefit from more personalized, MRI-guided ablation treatments to correct irregular heart rhythms, according to a new artificial ...