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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 18, 2005
European Heart Journal 2006 27(2):130-131; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi625
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Effectiveness of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Vidal Essebag, John V. Wylie and Mark E. Josephson*

Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 185 Pilgrim Road, Baker 4, Boston, MA 02215, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 617 632 7393; fax: +1 617 632 7620. E-mail address: mjoseph2@bidmc.harvard.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Catheter ablation treatment in patients with drug-refractory atrial fibrillation: a prospective, multi-centre, randomized controlled study (Catheter Ablation for the Cure of Atrial Fibrillation Study)’{dagger} by G. Stabile et al., on page 216

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Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become increasingly popular in multiple centres worldwide as more studies have reported favourable success rates in preventing AF recurrences using various ablation techniques.1 Different strategies for ablating AF range from physiological approaches aimed at electrical segmental pulmonary vein (PV) isolation2,3 to anatomical circumferential PV ablation with or without the addition of linear ablation lines in the posterior left atrium and in the mitral isthmus.4,5 Recent randomized studies comparing these approaches have yielded conflicting results concerning the relative merits of segmental PV isolation vs. circumferential PV ablation.5,6 Despite numerous studies reporting results of different ablation techniques . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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