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Usefulness of Atrial Fibrillation Burden as a Predictor for Success of Pulmonary Vein Isolation

Alexander Berkowitsch, Dejan Vukajlović, Malte Kuniss, Thomas Neumann, Sergej Zaltsberg, Klaus Kurzidim, Christian W. Hamm, Heinz F. Pitschner

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology · 2005 · 36 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

AF recurrence with AFB > or =12 hours within 3 months is associated with a missed improvement of QoL. Symptomatic ERAF predicts recurrence independently of therapy.

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Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Hakan Oral, Bradley P. Knight, Hiroshi Tada et al. · Circulation · 2002 · 1.1K citations

Atrial Electroanatomic Remodeling After Circumferential Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Ablation

Carlo Pappone, Giuseppe Oreto, Salvatore Rosanio et al. · Circulation · 2001 · 864 citations · Full text

Circular mapping and ablation of thepulmonary vein for treatment of atrial fibrillation

Nassir Marrouche, Thomas Dresing, Christopher R. Cole et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2002 · 406 citations · Full text

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Clinical significance of early recurrences of atrial fibrillation after pulmonary vein isolation

Hakan Oral, Bradley P. Knight, Mehmet Özaydın et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2002 · 361 citations

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Efficacy of Repeat Pulmonary Vein Isolation Procedures in Patients with Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation

David J. Callans, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Sanjay Dixit et al. · Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology · 2004 · 290 citations