Hybrid Therapy of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation and Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Mitral Stenosis

Abstract

The hybrid therapy using RFCA and a PTMC was safe and feasible, and significantly improved the AF free survival rate compared to DC following a PTMC.

Radiofrequency Ablation of Left Atrial Reentrant Tachycardias in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease: A Case Series

“…There are little data available on RFA of atypical flutters with rheumatic MS. There are many studies focusing various aspects of AF, RFA of AF as well as surgical maze procedure in RHD. There are some data on the electrical substrate in rheumatic MS that predispose to AF .…”

Intracardiac echocardiography–guided simultaneous pulmonary vein isolation and percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy

“…11 In another study, hybrid PTMC and PVI therapy maintained sinus rhythm in 80% of patients during a follow-up period of 4.0 6 2.7 years and improved the AF-free survival rate compared to direct cardioversion following PTMC. 12 Although these investigators performed PTMC and PVI in separate sessions, the catheter procedures were as effective as in combined surgery. Considering the relatively young age and low Wilkins echocardiography scores of the patients in the present study, we decided that the hybrid catheter procedure was more appropriate than mitral valve surgery with the maze procedure.…”

Possibilities of surface electrocardiographic mapping in catheter ablation of atrial arrhythmias after surgical treatment of mitral heart disease

“…Опубликованных данных о результатах аблации предсердного аритмогенного субстрата у больных после протезирования МК недостаточно [24][25][26]. Прием ААП у таких пациентов обычно малоэффективен.…”