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Figure 1 Arrhythmic event-free survival for patients with and without prosthetic mechanical mitral valves. Patients have been stratified according to whether atrial fibrillation (AF) before ablation was paroxysmal (left panel) or chronic (middle panel). The right panel gives the results for all patients combined. Broken lines = mitral valve prosthesis (MVP); solid lines = no MVP.