Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affects approximately 3-6 million people in the United States — a figure expected to increase to around 6-16 million by 2050. Globally, ...

Using cryoablation as first-line therapy in patients with newly diagnosed, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation can significantly reduce the risk of recurrence measured by continuous arrhythmia monitoring ...

Patients with symptomatic paroxysmal A-fib stand a better chance of being in sinus rhythm at 1 year if they undergo first-line catheter ablation with a cryoballoon rather than start antiarrhythmic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Primary efficacy failure was defined as subsequent surgery or ablation treatment for AF; AF, atrial flutter or ...

June 20, 2008 (Nice, France) — Whether left atrial ablation should be used as an initial therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation was the provocative theme of a debate held here at Cardiostim ...