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Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Targeting Low-Voltage Areas With Selective Activation Characteristics.

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol

March 2016

Arrhythmia Division, Department of Cardiology and Angiology (A.S.J., H.L., J.S., V.M., J.M., C.-I.P., C.P., J.A., W.H., C.H.-S., Y.E.O., F.-J.N., R.W., T.A.) and Department of Anesthesiology (C.K.), University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany; Arrhythmia Department, University Hospital Haut-Leveque Bordeaux, Pessac, France (A.D., P.J., M.H., M.H.); and Arrhythmia Division, St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, MN (S.K.).

Background: Complex-fractionated atrial electrograms and atrial fibrosis are associated with maintenance of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). We hypothesized that pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) plus ablation of selective atrial low-voltage sites may be more successful than PVI only.

Methods And Results: A total of 85 consecutive patients with persistent AF underwent high-density atrial voltage mapping, PVI, and ablation at low-voltage areas (LVA < 0.

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Background: Chemoradiotherapy (CHRT) is often advocated for locally-advanced biliary tract cancer (LABTC). However there was not comparative study with chemotherapy alone (CH).

Patients And Methods: Patients with hilar or extrahepatic non-metastatic, LABTC could be included in this phase II trial.

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