Background: The mechanisms that underlie adverse cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients have not been well characterized.
Methods: A systematic analysis was performed in 2,237 sub...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. There is genetic predisposition for the development of AF. Recently, by linkage analysis, several loci have been mapped for monogenetic AF, including 11p15.5...
Manuscript received December 13, 2007; revised manuscript received March 7, 2008, accepted March 11, 2008.
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Background: Antral pulmonary vein (PV) ablation with radiofrequency energy is widely used as a strategy for catheter ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). A novel double lumen cryoballoon catheter was designed for...
