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Circumferential Pulmonary Vein Isolation With the Cryoballoon Technique

Results From a Prospective 3-Center Study

Thomas Neumann, MD^_*,_*, Jürgen Vogt, MD, Burghard Schumacher, MD, Anja Dorszewski, MD, Malte Kuniss, MD^_*, Hans Neuser, MD, Klaus Kurzidim, MD^_*, Alexander Berkowitsch, PhD^_*, Marcus Koller, MD, Johannes Heintze, MD, Ursula Scholz, MD, Ulrike Wetzel, MD, Michael A.E. Schneider, MD, Dieter Horstkotte, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, Christian W. Hamm, MD, FESC^_* and Heinz-Friedrich Pitschner, MD, FESC^_*

^_* Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Center of Cardiovascular Medicine, Bad Neustadt/Saale, Germany.

View larger version (7K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 PAF Versus Persistent AF Kaplan-Meier curves of electrocardiogram-documented paroxysmal (PAF) (continuous line) and persistent (Pers) (dashed line) atrial fibrillation (AF)–free survival after pulmonary vein isolation with a blanking period of 3 months.