Why the study?
Does pulmonary vein isolation guided by the ablation index prevent AF recurrence in patients with atrial fibrillation?
Does pulmonary vein isolation guided by the ablation index prevent AF recurrence in patients with atrial fibrillation?
Ablation index-guided pulmonary vein isolation with strict contiguity and quality criteria yields high 1-year freedom from AF recurrence across different operators and equipment.
Supports strict contiguity criteria for AF ablation; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without RCTs.
An ablation protocol respecting strict criteria for contiguity and quality lesion resulted in high rate of 1-year freedom from AF recurrence, irrespective of the ablation catheters, AI settings, and operator.
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Stabile et al. (2020) studied this question.
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