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Catheter ablation provides a highly effective, potentially curative treatment for most supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, with success rates approaching 95% for many regular supraventricular tachycardias.
Catheter ablation has evolved into a highly effective, potentially curative first-line therapy for many supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, largely replacing long-term antiarrhythmic drug therapy.
May support first-line ablation for SVT; leaves open need for randomized comparative data on durability.
Major advances in diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias have created the subspecialty of cardiac electrophysiology. This article reviews supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias and outlines the indications and process of electrophysiological testing, arrhythmia mechanism and their treatment by catheter ablation.
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Lim et al. (2012) conducted a review in Arrhythmias. Catheter ablation was evaluated. Catheter ablation provides a highly effective, potentially curative treatment for most supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, with success rates approaching 95% for many regular supraventricular tachycardias.
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