one year follow-up after cryoballoon isolation of the pulmonary veins in patients with paroxysmal...

One year follow-up after cryoballoon isolation of the pulmonary veins in patients with paroxysmal atrial

fibrillation

by Yves Van Belle, Petter Janse, Dominic Theuns, Tamas Szili-Torok, and Luc Jordaens

EuropaceVolume 10(11):1271-1276

October 27, 2008

Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Atrial fibrillation (AF) burden as calculated from transtelephonic ECG recordings sorted ascendingly by the burden before pulmonary vein isolation (before) and burden sorted

ascendingly after isolation (after).

Yves Van Belle et al. Europace 2008;10:1271-1276

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Event-free survival curve for atrial fibrillation (AF) after a single ablation procedure.

Yves Van Belle et al. Europace 2008;10:1271-1276

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Event-free survival curve for atrial fibrillation (AF) after a single ablation procedure, employing 3-month blanking period.

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Graphical representation of the overall 1-year clinical outcome after a mean of 1,2 procedures, presented as patient numbers.

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