Clinical outcomes differ among the different ablation technologies used for surgical atrial fibrillation therapy

David K. Swanson

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Clinical outcomes differ among the different ablation technologies used for surgical atrial fibrillation therapy

David K. Swanson

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2010; 7 (3): 257–264

Online publish date: 2010/10/01

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Multiple ablation technologies are used to provide atrial fibrillation therapy during cardiac surgery. A rigorous search was performed to identify all peer-reviewed papers that provided clinical outcomes data following the ablation therapy. A META analysis showed significant differences in clinical outcomes by ablation technology type: clinicians using temperature-controlled RF power delivery achieved higher rates of normal sinus rhythm at follow-up and patients ablated with microwave ablation had lower rates of normal sinus rhythm than the average of all ablation-treated patients. Permanent pacemaker implantation rates were higher than average for patients treated with microwave or argon-based Cryoablation technologies, but were lower than the average for patients treated using temperature-controlled RF.

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Clinical outcomes differ among the different ablation technologies used for surgical atrial fibrillation therapy

David K. Swanson

cardiac surgery, ablation technology, atrial fibrillation, META analysis, COX maze