Good News: Pulmonary Veins Are Isolated! Bad News: Atrial Fibrillation Is Back

Chirag R Barbhaiya; Douglas Holmes

doi:10.1016/j.jacep.2018.10.009

Good News: Pulmonary Veins Are Isolated! Bad News: Atrial Fibrillation Is Back

JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2018 Dec;4(12):1580-1582. doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2018.10.009.

Authors

Chirag R Barbhaiya¹, Douglas Holmes²

Affiliations

¹ Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York. Electronic address: chirag.barbhaiya@nyumc.org.
² Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York.

PMID: 30573122
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacep.2018.10.009

No abstract available

Keywords: arrhythmia recurrence; atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; epicardial left atrial appendage closure; left atrial appendage isolation.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Atrial Appendage*
Atrial Fibrillation / surgery*
Catheter Ablation*
Humans
Ligation
Pulmonary Veins*