Morphological and Physiological Characteristics of Discontinuous Linear Atrial Ablations During Atrial Pacing and Atrial Fibrillation

Discontinuous Atrial Ablations. Introduction: Linear atrial ablations are thought to he necessary to accomplish successful catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. In order to investigate the conduction characteristics of atrial myocardium in regions of linear lesion discontinuity gaps), we performed activation sequence mapping in gap regions during atrial pacing and atrial fibrillation.

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