FIRE AND ICE: The quest for the perfect modality in atrial fibrillation ablation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation plays an important role in the management of AF. Radiofrequency ablation is widely used in practice all over the world. Cryoablation has emerged as an alternative method for AF ablat...

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Autores principales: Sayed, Mohamed, ElMaghawry, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2016
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Lessons from the Trials
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043270
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2016.23
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description Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation plays an important role in the management of AF. Radiofrequency ablation is widely used in practice all over the world. Cryoablation has emerged as an alternative method for AF ablation. The FIRE and ICE trial was a non inferiority, multicentre, randomized trial that compared between the two modalities and proved cryoablation to be non inferior to radiofrequency in terms of efficacy and safety. However, the rate of AF recurrence was markedly high in both arms of the study.
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spelling pubmed-56428412017-10-17 FIRE AND ICE: The quest for the perfect modality in atrial fibrillation ablation Sayed, Mohamed ElMaghawry, Mohamed Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Lessons from the Trials Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation plays an important role in the management of AF. Radiofrequency ablation is widely used in practice all over the world. Cryoablation has emerged as an alternative method for AF ablation. The FIRE and ICE trial was a non inferiority, multicentre, randomized trial that compared between the two modalities and proved cryoablation to be non inferior to radiofrequency in terms of efficacy and safety. However, the rate of AF recurrence was markedly high in both arms of the study. Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2016-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5642841/ /pubmed/29043270 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2016.23 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642841/
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