This Article Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Oral, H. Articles by Morady, F. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Oral, H. Articles by Morady, F.

Clinical significance of early recurrences of atrial fibrillation after pulmonary vein isolation

Hakan Oral, MD, FACC^*,*, Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC^*, Mehmet Özaydn, MD^*, Hiroshi Tada, MD^*, Aman Chugh, MD^*, Sohail Hassan, MD^*, Christoph Scharf, MD^*, Steve W. K. Lai, MD^*, Radmira Greenstein, MD^*, Frank Pelosi, Jr, MD, FACC^*, S. Adam Strickberger, MD, FACC^* and Fred Morady, MD, FACC^*

^* Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Cumulative percent of patients with recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) and time to the first recurrence of AF after pulmonary vein isolation in 110 patients.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Time to the first episode of atrial fibrillation in 39 patients who had early recurrence of atrial fibrillation (ERAF).

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Kaplan-Meier analysis of long-term freedom from recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with and without an early recurrence of AF (ERAF). PV = pulmonary vein.