Complete Isolation of Left Atrium Surrounding the Pulmonary Veins: New Insights From the Double-Lasso Technique in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

By F. Ouyang, D. Bänsch, S. Ernst, A. Schaumann, H. Hachiya, Minglong Chen, J. Chun, Peter Falk, Afsaneh Khanedani, M. Antz and 1 more. Circulation, 2004

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• 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 (2005, background): “AF substrate in the LA, and (4) non-PV ATa.”
• Worldwide Survey on the Methods, Efficacy, and Safety of Catheter Ablation for Human Atrial Fibrillation (2005, background): “Discussion There are 8 main observations collected from the present survey: (1) CA is increasingly being offered to patients with AF; (2) it is increasingly being offered to sicker AF patients; (3) 2 mapping/ablation techniques have become established as the most frequently used; (4) PV isolation is”
• 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, methodology): “The endpoint for this procedure was amplitude reduction within the ablated area [205, 209], elimination (or dissociation) of the PV potentials recorded from either one or two circular mapping catheters or a basket catheter within the ipsilateral PVs [88, 89, 210, 212, 213, 215], and/or exit block fr”