Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: AF Termination is the End Point

Ashok J Shah; Shinsuke Miyazaki; Amir S Jadidi; Xingpeng Liu; Daniel Scherr; Patrizio Pascale; Laurent Roten; Yuki Komatsu; Stephen B Wilton; Michala E Pedersen; Sebastien Knecht; Nicolas Derval; Frederic Sacher; Meleze Hocini; Michel Haïssaguerre; Pierre Jais

doi:10.1016/j.ccep.2012.05.005

Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: AF Termination is the End Point

Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2012 Sep;4(3):335-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ccep.2012.05.005.

Authors

Ashok J Shah¹, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Amir S Jadidi, Xingpeng Liu, Daniel Scherr, Patrizio Pascale, Laurent Roten, Yuki Komatsu, Stephen B Wilton, Michala E Pedersen, Sebastien Knecht, Nicolas Derval, Frederic Sacher, Meleze Hocini, Michel Haïssaguerre, Pierre Jais

Affiliation

¹ Hôpital Haut Leveque and Université Bordeaux II, Bordeaux, France.

PMID: 26939953
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccep.2012.05.005

Abstract

This article reviews the literature on various techniques in the ablation of persistent AF, with the aim of highlighting the role of intraprocedural arrhythmia termination, defined as conversion to sinus rhythm or intermediate atrial tachycardia, in the predictability of arrhythmia recurrence. Because arrhythmia termination is not observed universally as a procedural end point, only those studies wherein it has been specifically reported, and its predictive role in arrhythmia recurrence is considered, are described.