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Can Contact Force Sensing or Laser Balloon Decrease Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Failures?

While catheter ablation has been proven more effective at stopping atrial fibrillation than antiarrhythmic drugs, pulmonary veins may reconnect and atrial fibrillation may return, causing the catheter ablation to fail. At the recent Heart Rhythm Society meeting, Dr. Vivek Reddy, Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, presented clinical …

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Dr. Vivek Reddy Discusses New Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation Treatments and Stroke Prevention – Video

At Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2010, Dr. Vivek Reddy shared with us some of the new atrial fibrillation catheter ablation techniques and also talked about non-pharmacological approaches to afib stroke prevention. See the video: Interview with Dr. Vivek Reddy at Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2010

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