The Short and Long-Term Efficacy of Pulmonary Vein Isolation as a Sole Treatment Strategy for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: There is a progressive and significant decline in freedom from AF between 1, 3 and 5-year after successful PVI in patients with PAF. Our analysis suggests that a high short-time success rate after PVI does not necessarily result in high chronic success rate. PMID: 28124593 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Current Cardiology Reviews - January 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Tags: Curr Cardiol Rev Source Type: research