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Isolating the pulmonary veins as first-line therapy in patients with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation using the Cryoballoon

Mehdi Namdar, Gian‐Battista Chierchia, Sjoerd Westra, Antonio Sorgente, M La Meir, Fatih Bayrak, Jayakeerthi Y. Rao, Danilo Ricciardi, Carlo de Asmundis, Andrea Sarkozy,

EP Europace · 2011 · 42 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Cryoballoon ablation in patients with lone paroxysmal AF yields a high acute efficacy rate with a great chance of being free of symptomatic AF recurrence without antiarrhythmic drugs on a mid-term follow-up period, when offered as a first-line treatment.

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