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Clinical improvement after atrioventricular nodal ablation for atrial fibrillation does not correlate with improved
C S Brown1, R M Mills, J B Conti
1Department of Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville 32610, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
A retrospective review of 15 patients with atrial fibrillation and class III to IV congestive heart failure who underwent atrioventricular nodal ablation demonstrated a marked improvement in their functional abilities. This improvement, however, could not be explained by the improvement in ejection fraction alone.