Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 1391-1397 , September 2011

Long-term single- and multiple-procedure outcome and predictors of success after catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation

Presented in part at the 31st Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, which was held in Denver, Colorado, on May 12–15, 2010, and published in abstract form (Heart Rhythm 2010; Abstract Supplement).

  • Thomas Rostock, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Thomas Rostock, M.D., University Hospital Eppendorf, University Heart Center, Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, Martinistrasse 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany
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  • Tushar V. Salukhe, MRCP, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Daniel Steven, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Imke Drewitz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Boris A. Hoffmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Karsten Bock, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Helge Servatius, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Kai Müllerleile, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Arian Sultan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Nils Gosau, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Thomas Meinertz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Karl Wegscheider, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biometrie and Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Stephan Willems, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Received 20 February 2011 ,Accepted 4 April 2011.

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 Dr. TV Salukhe is supported by the British Heart Foundation FS/09/018/26963.

PII: S1547-5271(11)00466-8

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.04.012

Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 1391-1397 , September 2011

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