Recovered Pulmonary Vein Conduction as a Dominant Factor for Recurrent Atrial Tachyarrhythmias After Complete Circular Isolation of the Pulmonary Veins: Lessons From Double Lasso Technique

By F. Ouyang, M. Antz, S. Ernst, H. Hachiya, H. Mavrakis, F. Deger, A. Schaumann, J. Chun, Peter Falk, Detlef Hennig and 3 more. Circulation, 2005

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2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, methodology): “For PV tachycardias, 2 gaps in the PVI line are typically present and reisolation of the PVs suffices to eliminate the tachycardia.(447) For macroreentrant tachycardias, ablation that connects anatomic obstacles is required.”
Aggressive risk factor reduction study for atrial fibrillation and implications for the outcome of ablation: the ARREST-AF cohort study. (2014, background): “This late recurrence was proposed to also be due to persistent pulmonary vein conduction (27,28).”
2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design (2012, background): “Detailed activation and entrainment mapping of the tachycardia during a second procedure result in effective ablation of AT in approximately 90% of patients [123, 365, 377, 472, 482, 483].”