Heart. Published Online First: 24 November 2005. doi:10.1136/hrt.2005.075945
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Can we ablate permanent atrial fibrillation?
1 South West Cardiothoracic Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: guy.haywood{at}phnt.swest.nhs.uk.
Accepted 6 November 2005
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation used to be considered a rather uninteresting arrhythmia; now it is firmly centre stage. In the article by Schilling and co-workers reported here, it seems that the ablation of even permanent atrial fibrillation has become a legitimate goal for cardiac electrophysiologists. Should we be gearing up to ablate all drug refractory symptomatic atrial fibrillation?
Keywords: ablation, atrial Fibrillation, permanent
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