EP on EP Episode 47 - AFib: My Approach Part 2-EP on EP Episode 47

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This video features Eric Prystowsky interviewing Hugh Calkins, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, about a trial on the use of cryoablation for persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib). The trial aimed to obtain FDA labeling for cryoablation as a treatment for persistent AFib. The trial enrolled 145 patients with persistent AFib of less than six months duration. The success rate at 12 months follow-up was 55% and the complication rate was 0.6%. The trial showed that cryoablation could effectively treat persistent AFib in over 50% of patients with minimal complications. The results are likely to be favorably received by the FDA.

Keywords

Eric Prystowsky

Hugh Calkins

trial

cryoablation

persistent atrial fibrillation