This review summarizes the advantages, drawbacks, complications, and clinical outcomes of cryoballoon ablation for pulmonary vein isolation in atrial fibrillation.
Synthesizes current evidence on cryoballoon ablation for AF to guide.
Cryoballoon ablation has emerged as a novel tool to perform pulmonary vein isolation. The aim of this paper is to review the advantages, drawbacks as well as possible complications and clinical outcomes of this technology and to discuss some important technical issues.
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