CryoAblation of Atrial Fibrillation: New Technique/ New expectations

Authors

  • Antonis S Manolis Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens
  • Dimosthenis Avramidis Evagelismos Hospital, Athens
  • Prokopis Papadimitriou Evagelismos Hospital, Athens
  • Emmanouil Poulidakis Evagelismos Hospital, Athens
  • John Tzagarakis Evagelismos Hospital, Athens
  • Kostas Kappos Evagelismos Hospital, Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v9i3.675

Keywords:

atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation, cryoballoon, cryoablation

Abstract

A 53-year-old gentleman with frequent episodes of idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) who had failed rhythm control with two antiarrhythmic drugs was initially submitted to an ablation procedure during which pulmonary vein (PV) isolation was performed with use of a cryothermic balloon in September 2012. After a 3-month blanking period, he remained free of symptoms for over a year. However, over the last one month he has had frequent arrhythmia recurrences with almost weekly episodes. He returned for a repeat ablation procedure... (excerpt)

Author Biography

Antonis S Manolis, Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens

Specialty: Cardiology

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Published

2014-06-29

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2014)

Section

Images in Medicine

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