Intraprocedural Use of Ibutilide to Organize and Guide Ablation of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms: Preliminary Assessment of a Modified Step‐Wise Approach to Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Ibutilide Guided CFAE Ablation. Introduction: While able to achieve clinical success, the current step‐wise approach to persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation requires considerable “substrate” ablation and frequently mandates multiple procedures to address consequent atrial tachycardias (ATs). An alternative strategy minimizing the amount of ablation while maintaining clinical success would be desirable. We hypothesize that intraprocedural administration of a low‐dose antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) during AF will organize areas of passive activation and not affect areas critical to AF maintenance, thereby potentially minimizing the ablation lesion set.

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