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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
[Contemporary treatment of atrial flutter]
1Herzzentrum Luzern; Luzerner Kantonsspital.
Abstract:
Atrial flutter is a relatively common arrhythmia that may be associated with substantial symptoms and morbidity. It can be harmful by impairing the cardiac output and by encouraging atrial thrombus formation that can lead to systemic embolization. In patients with atrial flutter four major issues that must be addressed. These are reversion to normal sinus rhythm, maintenance of sinus rhythm, control of the ventricular rate, and prevention of systemic thrombo-embolism. Nowadays, catheter ablation is the first line treatment of recurrent symptomatic or hemodynamically significant atrial flutter.
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