Role of Rotors in the Ablative Therapy of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Contact mapping with focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) shows that localised ablation at sources can improve procedural success in many ...

The role of rotors in atrial fibrillation - PMC - NCBI

Stability provides a rationale for limited ablation that is less clear for targets that migrate throughout the atria. FIRM-guided therapy targets each rotor and ...

Human Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Is Maintained by Rotors

Equivalent outcomes from catheter ablation of persistent AF have been hampered by ongoing uncertainty about the basic electrophysiological ...

Rotors in Atrial Fibrillation - Arizona Heart Rhythm Center

WHAT IS ROTOR ABLATION? ... Atrial Fibrillation (AF) has historically been difficult to treat with a high degree of success. In part this is the result of a lack ...

Rotor mechanism and its mapping in atrial fibrillation | EP Europace

In theory, localized sites with the highest frequency activity are markers of critical AF drivers or rotors. Ablation of these high DF sites ...

Ablation of Rotor Domains Effectively Modulates Dynamics of Human

In human long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation, rotors potentially explain atrial fibrillation maintenance, but their ablation remains ...

Progressive modification of rotors in persistent atrial fibrillation by ...

While percutaneous pulmonary vein (PV) isolation has proved to be an effective treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), radiofrequency ablation of ...

Practical Aspects of Rotor Mapping in Catheter Ablation of Atrial ...

Historically, pulmonary veins have been the focus of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation therapy, but it is increasingly being recognized that ...

Rotor mapping and ablation to treat atrial fibrillation - LWW

Tzou WS, Sághy L, Lin D. Termination of persistent atrial fibrillation during left atrial mapping. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2011; 22:1171–1173. Cited Here...

Clinical impact of rotor ablation in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review

Focal impulse and rotor modulation-guided ablation in non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation · a modest 57.5% were free of AF at 18 ± 7 months of ...

The role of rotors in atrial fibrillation | Request PDF - ResearchGate

... rotor ablation AF has been postulated to be sustained by electrical rotors and focal impulses and ablation of such sources has been associated with improved ...

Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

This review focuses on the evidence that stable rotors and focal sources drive clinical paroxysmal AF, and discusses their role as ablation targets either with ...

Rotor and Focal Source Mapping and Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation

Most electrophysiologists who perform catheter ablation procedures for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) believe rotors have a role in ...

Targeting Stable Rotors to Treat Atrial Fibrillation | AER Journal

This review summarises the evidence for stable rotors and focal sources of human AF and their clinical role as ablation targets to eliminate ...

Ablation of Rotor and Focal Sources Reduces Late Recurrence of ...

The CONFIRM (Conventional Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation With or Without Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation) demonstrated that substrates for persistent and ...

Role of Rotors in the Ablative Therapy of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation is increasingly used to maintain sinus rhythm yet its results are sub-optimal, especially in patients with persistent AF or ...

Rotor mapping and ablation to treat atrial fibrillation - ResearchGate

Purpose of review: Rotors have long been postulated to drive atrial fibrillation, but evidence has been limited to animal models.

Ablation of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation - Mody

However, the importance of rotors to human AF remains controversial. More recently, high resolution mapping has shown some evidence that dissociated ...

Characterization of Drivers in Patients with Persistent Atrial ...

ABSTRACT. Recent clinical trials have shown that targeting rotors and focal impulses (FIs) during atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation improves outcomes. This ...

Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation by the Ablation of Localized Sources

We hypothesized that human atrial fibrillation (AF) may be sustained by localized sources (electrical rotors and focal impulses), whose elimination (focal ...