Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest type of arrhythmia which is seen as a growing public healthburden affecting patients' morbidity and mortality.1 Since the end of last century, catheter ablation has been ev...Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest type of arrhythmia which is seen as a growing public healthburden affecting patients' morbidity and mortality.1 Since the end of last century, catheter ablation has been evolving as the treatment of choice in a particular subset of patients with AF,2'3 and currently being the most common catheter ablation procedure performed worldwide. Most centers have progressively moved from performing paroxysmal AF to more complex long-standing persistent AF.展开更多
文摘Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest type of arrhythmia which is seen as a growing public healthburden affecting patients' morbidity and mortality.1 Since the end of last century, catheter ablation has been evolving as the treatment of choice in a particular subset of patients with AF,2'3 and currently being the most common catheter ablation procedure performed worldwide. Most centers have progressively moved from performing paroxysmal AF to more complex long-standing persistent AF.