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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on May 21, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn227
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Atrial deformation: the key to maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation?

Hisham Dokainish1,* and Stuart J. Connolly2

1 Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2 McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 713 798 2608, Fax: +1 713 798 2751, Email: hishamd@bcm.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Strain rate imaging for functional quantification of the left atrium: atrial deformation predicts the maintenance of sinus rhythm after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation,’ by C. Schneider et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn168

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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common serious arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, and accounts for approximately one-third of all hospitalizations for cardiac rhythm disturbances.1 Consequently, effective therapies for conversion of AF to, and maintenance of, sinus rhythm (SR) have been actively sought. Currently, catheter-based ablation techniques have been shown to be promising in the elimination of AF. However, a significant percentage of patients undergoing catheter ablation have recurrence of AF; in one recent study, only 64% of patients with paroxysmal and 45% of patients with persistent AF were AF-free at 12 months follow-up.2 Other groups have shown that with complete pulmonary vein and posterior left atrial (LA) isolation, up to 63% of chronic AF . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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